Aristos Wins Ironing Board Challenge
Aristos Pampouris has won our Ironing Board Challenge with his re-enactment of the moment an intruder entered the arena at the 2017 English Open.
We asked fans to recreate a moment from snooker history on their ironing board at home. Here’s the winning video, which was named the best by two of the three judges, Ken Doherty and Alan McManus:
being that it's the last day of the @WeAreWST #IroningBoardChallenge I thought I'll make another one and try step it up a gear using @ronnieo147 rare moment of snooker from the @Dafabet English Open in 2017 pic.twitter.com/hjEIegzB8N
— ARISTOS PAMPOURIS (@ArisPampouris) May 27, 2020
Extra credit to Aristos for another video recreating an epic foul from Mark Allen:
Thought I'll try the @WeAreWST #IroningBoardChallenge😎 extremely good ones by @lheathcote147 and @SohailVahedi. Sorry @pistol147 if you see this 😂 pic.twitter.com/3Vd4AWeiBE
— ARISTOS PAMPOURIS (@ArisPampouris) May 23, 2020
However, there was some controversy in the voting as the third judge, Shaun Murphy, named a different video as his favourite: Dr Tony’s recreation of Mark Selby taking over six minutes over a shot at the 2019 Northern Ireland Open.
Hi @WeAreWST: here's my #IroningBoardChallenge – a recreation of @markjesterselby 's QF shot against John Higgins in the 2019 NI Open!! Apologies to judges @kendoherty1997 , @Magician147 & @alan_mcmanus – I know it's a bit long!! https://t.co/fXylAaY8qz via @YouTube
— Dr Tony (@piznizzle) May 23, 2020
And in fact Doherty admitted that one would have scored higher had he tidied up his living room a bit. A great lesson in life for Dr Tony.
Aristos earns a trip to the Crucible for the 2021 Betfred World Championship.
In third place was James Inglis’ version of the Steve Davis winning black from the 1983 World Championship final:
For @WeAreWST and the #IroningBoardChallenge. Tried @SteveSnooker winning shot and celebration from the 1983 World Final pic.twitter.com/4GW0tkcpni
— James Inglis (@JamesInglis94) May 24, 2020
Honourable mentions to fine efforts from Szepesi-Nagy István, Corey Ringsell, Marcos Dayao, Michael Rhodes, Floyd Paterson, Andrew Owen, HSA Eleven and Kieran Poole, and thanks to the pros who set the examples – David Grace, Louis Heathcote, Soheil Vahedi and Chris Wakelin. See all videos on Twitter using #IroningBoardChallenge