Betfair teasers

[Euler]

What is it with these teasers involving ping pong?

4/6/2014

[gutuami]

no idea what they are talking about. But as a table tennis player and fan I can say:

1. China Open (Jun 4 2014 Jun 8 2014)
http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf2.a ... endar_ittf

the final will be shown on eurosport:
http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/search.shtml? ... ble+tennis

2. As for octopus - one of the guys is wearing a red Joola shirt. And Joola have a long pimples rubber called octopus.
http://www.tabletennisdb.com/pips/joola-octopus.html

Liu Song is playing with Joola octopus on backhand. Usually long pips players are defenders but he is an attacker. It's very different play against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXezTXjNEFM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Song_(table_tennis)


3. The other guys looks like umpires:
http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/wp-cont ... oard-1.jpg

their badges looks to be in japanese. So they filmed it not so long ago:
http://www.ittf.com/stories/pictures/2014_wttc_abc.pdf

just thoughts ...

[gutuami]

here is another legend Jean-Michel_Saive playing against the same Chuang Chih-Yuan (TPE) which btw is nr 7 in the world at the moment:
http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf1.asp?category=wr


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS3O0OOn0a0

[Euler]

Perhaps we have an answer: -

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/b ... 76165.html

[Euler]

Using Ping Pong to run a world cup promotion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbWFL9jFis

Which actually directs you to the sportsbook: -

https://promotions.betfair.com/uk-sport ... pcs=bypass

Tag line 'This is play'

Am I missing something???????

[andyfuller]

Seems to say to me - no matter how good you are as an individual you will not beat Betfair as they have far more resources than the individual

Terrible ad

[Euler]

Some marketing agency has made a lot of money from that.

[PeterLe]

Some marketing agency has made a lot of money from that.

Yea, and they used your Premium Charge to pay for it!

[Wyndon]

I think the Beano has the copyright on table tennis playing octopuses, circa 1960

[gutuami]

the same idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SncapPrTusA

[Euler]

That's much better!

Just not getting the octopus ping pong relevance to the World Cup. I guess maybe they just wanted to stand out amongst the other footy adverts? No doubt some case study will pop up showing people like it and we will be given cuddly toys next.

[Euler]

I met the Octopus this morning, it's currently in bits in the underground car park at Betfair at the moment.

[LinusP]

A bit late but here is where the premium charge is going..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -FREE.html