Over and over and over again they say that there is a strategic component to the game, along with a physical component, it's just like chess, as if moving a rook across the board is the hard part.
Are there a bunch of billiards players ready to rough them up if they dare compare tiddlywinks to billiards?
As an American, I feel embarrassed by the guy who looks like a mutant version of Stuart Smalley hanging around in a rumpled t-shirt while all the other on-the-spectrum dudes at least bothered to dress up for their big day.
Also very American: complaining that there's just no money in tiddlywinks these days.