"I'm very excited because Ronnie was my idol when I first started playing snooker at the age of 10, " said Liu, who lost 5-1 to O'Sullivan at last season's China Open.
Recently SKS founder Vikram Akula (which also has billionaire Vinod Khosla and Sequoia Capital as investors), got into this very debate with his one time idol, Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize founder of Grameen Bank and the father of microfinance.
That could prove very problematic, and the stakes are huge: American Idol is one of the biggest hits in American television history, the only show to be rated number one for seven straight years, and a rarity as a weekly mega-hit on two different nights and time slots.