Q School (snooker)
Snooker qualifying tournament
The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour. It is held annually, before the start of the professional season.
Overview
The Q School was established in an attempt to streamline the qualification process for the World Snooker Tour. A series of play-offs are run every year before the season. Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Qualifiers earn a two-year tour card on the Main Tour.[1]
Qualifiers
For each event, the players who qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.
Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 | Qualifier 3 | Qualifier 4 | Ref. |
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2011 | Sheffield | 124 | Event 1 | 16 May | Andrew Norman | David Grace | Adam Wicheard | Robin Hull | [2] |
Event 2 | 22 May | Li Yan | David Morris | Simon Bedford | Tian Pengfei | [3] | |||
Event 3 | 28 May | Kurt Maflin | Stuart Carrington | Adam Duffy | David Gilbert | [4] | |||
2012 | Sheffield | 115 | Event 1 | 17 May | Martin O'Donnell | Sam Baird | Ian Burns | Chen Zhe | [5] |
Event 2 | 23 May | Daniel Wells | Jamie O'Neill | Sean O'Sullivan | Paul Davison | [6] | |||
Event 3 | 29 May | Rod Lawler | Michael Wasley | Joel Walker | Robbie Williams | [7] | |||
2013 | Sheffield | 110 | Event 1 | 14 May | Elliot Slessor | Alex Davies | Lee Page | Hammad Miah | [8] |
Event 2 | 18 May | Ahmed Saif | Ross Muir | Ryan Clark | Alexander Ursenbacher | [9] | |||
Event 3 | 22 May | David Morris | Lee Spick | Chris Wakelin | Fraser Patrick | [10] | |||
2014 | Gloucester | 145 | Event 1 | 15 May | Craig Steadman | Chris Melling | Zhang Anda | Tian Pengfei | [11] |
Event 2 | 21 May | Liam Highfield | Michael Georgiou | Lee Walker | Michael Leslie | [12] | |||
2015 | Burton- upon-Trent | 166 | Event 1 | 19 May | Sydney Wilson | Daniel Wells | Eden Sharav | Rhys Clark | [13] |
Event 2 | 25 May | Jason Weston | Gareth Allen | Duane Jones | Paul Davison | [14] | |||
2016 | Burton- upon-Trent | 182 | Event 1 | 16 May | Fang Xiongman | Christopher Keogan | Cao Yupeng | Chen Zhe | [15] |
Event 2 | 22 May | Michael Georgiou | John Astley | Alex Borg | David John | [16] | |||
Order of Merit | Craig Steadman | Jamie Curtis-Barrett | Ian Preece | Adam Duffy | [17] | ||||
2017 | Preston | 206 | Event 1 | 14 May | Lukas Kleckers | Allan Taylor | Billy Joe Castle | Ashley Hugill | [18] |
Event 2 | 20 May | Duane Jones | Sanderson Lam | Paul Davison | Chen Zifan | [19] | |||
Order of Merit | Zhang Yong | Sean O'Sullivan | Joe Swail | Martin O'Donnell | [20] | ||||
2018 | Burton- upon-Trent | 202 | Event 1 | 19 May | Jak Jones | Sam Baird | Hammad Miah | Sam Craigie | [21] |
Event 2 | 25 May | Jordan Brown | Craig Steadman | Lu Ning | Zhao Xintong | [22] | |||
Event 3 | 31 May | Thor Chuan Leong | Kishan Hirani | Andy Lee | Ashley Carty | [23] | |||
2019 | Wigan | 218 | Event 1 | 23 May | Xu Si | David Lilley | Jamie O'Neill | Soheil Vahedi | [24] |
Event 2 | 29 May | Chen Zifan | Riley Parsons | Louis Heathcote | Fraser Patrick | [25] | |||
Event 3 | 4 June | Barry Pinches | Alex Borg | Alexander Ursenbacher | Andy Hicks | [26] | |||
Order of Merit | Si Jiahui | Billy Castle | Peter Lines | Lei Peifan | [27] | ||||
2020 | Sheffield | 172 | Event 1 | 7 August | Lee Walker | Peter Devlin | Simon Lichtenberg | Fan Zhengyi | [28] |
Event 2 | 8 August | Jamie Jones | Zak Surety | Oliver Lines | Ben Hancorn | [29] | |||
Event 3 | 9 August | Rory McLeod | Jamie Wilson | Farakh Ajaib | Steven Hallworth | [30] | |||
2021 | Sheffield | 196 | Event 1 | 1 June | Peter Lines | Fraser Patrick | Jackson Page | Yuan Sijun | [31] |
Event 2 | 7 June | Barry Pinches | Craig Steadman | Michael Judge | Alfie Burden | [32] | |||
Event 3 | 13 June | Ian Burns | Lei Peifan | Dean Young | Duane Jones | [33] | |||
Order of Merit | Hammad Miah | Mitchell Mann | – | – | [34] | ||||
2022 | Sheffield | 173 | Event 1 | 21 May | Rod Lawler | Andy Lee | Fergal O'Brien | Bai Langning | [35] |
Event 2 | 27 May | Adam Duffy | Aaron Hill | Zak Surety | Sanderson Lam | [36] | |||
Event 3 | 2 June | James Cahill | John Astley | Jenson Kendrick | Lukas Kleckers | [37] | |||
2023 | Leicester | 208 | Event 1 | 31 May | Alexander Ursenbacher | Andrew Higginson | Liam Pullen | Andrew Pagett | [38] |
Event 2 | 6 June | Dean Young | Louis Heathcote | Stuart Carrington | Alfie Burden | [39] | |||
2024 | Leicester | 167 | Event 1 | 26 May | Artemijs Zizins | Allan Taylor | Haydon Pinhey | Wang Yuchen | [40] |
Event 2 | 1 June | Antoni Kowalski | Chris Totten | Farakh Ajaib | Mitchell Mann | [41] |
Asia-Oceania Q School
Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 | Ref. |
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2022 | Bangkok | 70 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 5 June | Muhammad Asif | Asjad Iqbal[42] | [43] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 11 June | Dechawat Poomjaeng | Himanshu Jain | [44] | |||
2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 6 June | Thor Chuan Leong | Manasawin Phetmalaikul | [45] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 12 June | Ishpreet Singh Chadha | He Guoqiang | [46] | |||
2024 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 27 May | Lim Kok Leong | Sunny Akani | [47] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 2 June | Haris Tahir | Kreishh Gurbaxani | [48] |
Statistics
- Craig Steadman has qualified from Q School on a record 4 occasions. Paul Davison, Fraser Patrick, Duane Jones and Alexander Ursenbacher have qualified through the event on three occasions.[49]
- Michael Georgiou, Jordan Brown, David Gilbert, Fan Zhengyi, Fergal O'Brien and Zhao Xintong are the six Q-School qualifiers to win a ranking event. Zhao is the only one to have won multiple ranking events. O'Brien, Brown and Gilbert had been professionals before qualifying through Q School.
- The youngest qualifier through Q School was Lei Peifan at 15, while Peter Lines was the oldest, qualifying at 51 in 2021.
References
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- ^ WPBSA Statement - Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
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- ^ "Qualifying School - Event Two Asia & Oceania (2022)". snooker.org.
- ^ "Qualifying School - Event One Asia & Oceania (2023)". snooker.org.
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