194:, which was previously open to all professional members including those who do not compete on the Main Tour. Another issue was that players could not compete on PIOS while competing on the Main Tour, meaning that they were unable to safeguard their membership on the Main Tour by immediately re-qualifying via PIOS, effectively keeping them out of professional competition for a whole season should they drop off the tour. Even though PIOS was a competition in its own right, it primarily served as a Main Tour qualification route, and anticipating the streamlining of tour qualification for the
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376:(PTC), a series of minor-ranking tournaments that were open to the entire professional membership. The PTC events also included an amateur leg, effectively making it an open tour. They also counted towards the rankings for professionals on the Main Tour, and any player who finished in the top 8 of the PTC Order of Merit was guaranteed a tour card for the following season. The PTC was discontinued at the end of the
157:, which effectively turned the tournament into a near-identical copy of the World Snooker Championship, with the exception being frame length. While some of these changes have been criticised by lower ranked players , others have praised them, especially the format change for the UK Championship which reverted the tournament to the prestige that it had before the flat-128 draw was imposed upon it.
178:, the top ranked professionals qualified automatically for places while the rest of the membership had to qualify for places through a series of qualifying schools. The qualifying schools were only held the once, and thereafter the main qualification route was via the secondary professional tour. Following the scrapping of the secondary tour, the promotion places were then allocated to the
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usually at different locations. The main draw is most likely to be held at a prestigious venue where audiences can purchase a ticket and watch the players compete. Typically only the main draw is televised, and therefore often carries considerably higher prize money than the qualifiers. Players traditionally come into ranking events in different rounds based on their
345:, the Challenge Tour had a restricted membership and offered exclusive professional competition to a limited number of professionals that were not members of the Main Tour, and the Open Tour was established which was open to all players—including players on the Main and Challenge tours. The WPBSA operated the three level circuit until the end of the
233:), the highest ranked players on the top-up list will be invited to play in professional tournaments as amateurs. In this vein, players are encouraged to perform well, because they may still feature in World Snooker Tour events and thus have television exposure if they manage to reach the televised stages of an event that they have entered.
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in the form of the UK Tour, following the adoption of a two-tier tour structure. Unlike the Main Tour which had restricted membership, the UK Tour was initially open to all professional members, even those competing on the Main Tour—although members of the Main Tour were prohibited from entering from
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The Q School was established in an attempt to streamline the qualification process for the World
Snooker Tour, and is more or less a replacement for PIOS. A series of play-offs are run through to the quarter-final stages only. Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter all the play-off events, and there
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To compete on the World
Snooker Tour as a professional player, a player must qualify for it. At the end of each season, a pre-determined number of players are relegated from the tour based on their performance in ranking tournaments and on the secondary tour, making way for new professionals to join
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that do not. All players on the tour can enter a ranking event, whereas the entry criteria for an invitational event is often set by the sponsor or broadcaster, and usually excludes many players on the tour. Ranking tournaments are often played in two stages—a qualification stage and the main draw,
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There are some important differences between the Q School and PIOS. Q School is purely a qualification process whereas PIOS was a tournament series in its own right. Q School is conducted in a limited time period of two to three weeks in May, during the interlude between seasons, while PIOS events
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The current incarnation of the World
Snooker Tour was created in the early 1970s when the WPBSA took over the running of the professional game. At the time of the takeover, in 1971, there were only a handful of professional events to play in, but further events were gradually added throughout the
190:. The amateur status of the event meant that players who had been relegated from the Main Tour and wished to compete on PIOS had to relinquish their professional membership. This had an unpopular side effect, since if players relinquished professional membership they would be unable to enter the
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Those who do not manage to qualify for the World
Snooker Tour may still be entered into professional tournaments using a Q School top-up list, known as the Order of Merit. This list ranks the amateur players by their performance during the play-offs: should a tournament not consist of 128 World
245:, the World Snooker board has discretion to award invitational tour cards (ITCs) to players who have made an outstanding contribution to the sport. ITCs are typically issued to prominent late-career players who have been relegated from the main tour; players who hold or have held ITCs include
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tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. The World
Snooker Tour is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, which introduced the World Snooker Tour name, logo, and revised website as part of a 2020
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is no prize money. Each player who wins a quarter-final game qualifies for a two-year tour card on the World
Snooker Tour. All the players that have entered the event compete in the first play-off, and those that are not successful are automatically entered into the next play-off and so on.
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the tour. There are several qualification routes for the tour: a player can gain qualification via the various events organised by the WPBSA itself or affiliate organisations, and a limited number of places are usually made available to players at the discretion of the governing body.
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1970s, and by the end of the decade there were over twenty events on the calendar and snooker was a regular televised fixture. This period in the professional game has come to be known as the "modern era"; it is generally accepted to date from 1969 (when the BBC commissioned
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were played over the course of the season. Another important distinction from PIOS is that Q-School is open to everyone, and players who have just been relegated from the World
Snooker Tour are eligible to enter and if successful immediately regain their places on the tour.
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Historically a player just needed to become a professional member of the governing body to participate in events, which was attained by formal invitation by an existing current member, and this system was eventually replaced by the Pro-Ticket series. The game went
96:: the primary tour—officially now known as the World Snooker Tour but previously known (and still commonly referred to) as the Main Tour—with a limited membership, and a secondary professional tour was established for the rest of the professional membership.
353:(EASB). Since the Open Tour fell under the control of the EASB, which is an amateur governing body, the Open Tour took on amateur status and professional players were no longer eligible to enter. The Challenge Tour was axed upon completion of the
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was the first set of events to follow this change, where the first round was played as a qualifying round for all non-Top 16 players, with those in the Top 16 — plus local nation wildcards — having their matches held over to the final venue. The
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and to the highest-ranked player from the women's ranking list who is not already on the tour. If the women's World
Champion is already on the tour, that card will be issued to the next highest ranked female player who is not on the tour.
265:. A maximum of four players can hold ITCs at any one time. An ITC holder who finishes the season inside the top 64 of the world rankings, or inside the top eight on the one-year list, will earn a full tour card for the following season.
387:. The tour consists of ten events with a 72-player field, drawing the top 64 players from the Q School Order of Merit who did not qualify for the Main Tour, in addition to a maximum of eight wildcards. It also ran during the
365:. Only four of the planned seven events were played before the series was axed due to low player participation; one of the criticisms of the event was that it offered no ranking points which discouraged participation.
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the circuit began to transition to a flat format structure, with all the players starting in the first round. Some tournaments also have an amateur leg that makes it possible for non-members to enter WPBSA events.
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There are several routes available to amateurs and they involve competitions provided through various amateur governing bodies. The two main ones beyond Q School are the
357:, leaving the restricted Main Tour as the only professional competition provided by the WPBSA. There was another attempt to establish a secondary tour in the
92:, whereby anyone could apply for professional membership and enter the tournaments. Due to over-subscription, a two-tiered tour structure was adopted for the
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63:(WPBSA), owns 26 percent. To compete on the World Snooker Tour, players must be WPBSA members.
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276:(CBSA) China Tour. The EBSA also nominates their amateur and junior champions.
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128:, and the top players in the sport—often the top 16 ranked players—are usually
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during a truncated season played largely behind closed doors due to the
59:, which owns 51 percent of the company; the sport's governing body, the
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925:"Indicative Prize Money Eankings Schedule 2013/2014 Season"
457:"WST – Brand Relaunch For Snooker As Part Of Global Vision"
111:: Nations that hosted a World Snooker Tour event in 2017–18
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Following the creation of the World
Snooker Tour in the
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and the knock-out format that is used by the modern-day
1348:"Players Tour Championship pits stars against amateurs"
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World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
55:. The principal stakeholder in World Snooker Ltd is
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198:this unpopular contest was discontinued after the
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1421:. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from
1058:. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from
661:. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from
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337:. It was rebranded the Challenge Tour from the
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1542:The CueSport Book of Professional Snooker
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966:"Letter to Tour Players from Barry Hearn"
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274:Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association
182:(PIOS)—an amateur open tour organised by
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560:. Friends Publications. pp. 49–50.
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383:The Challenge Tour was revived for the
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1498:"World Snooker Challenge Tour 2018/19"
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1242:, pp. Introduction & 178–182.
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817:"World Snooker Events – Live Coverage"
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1398:from the original on 21 February 2015
1116:"Q School 2021 Entry Deadline Monday"
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736:from the original on 17 December 2010
399:. The tour was revived again for the
80:was introduced) to the present day.
1544:. Suffolk: Rose Villa Publications.
1328:from the original on 11 January 2011
1297:from the original on 11 January 2011
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837:from the original on 11 January 2012
497:from the original on 5 February 2022
437:from the original on 5 February 2022
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1056:"Pontins International Open Series"
763:from the original on 21 August 2011
659:"WPBSA Secondary Professional Tour"
627:from the original on 27 August 2011
596:from the original on 6 October 2011
556:Goel, Gaurav; Handa, Amita (2020).
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115:The World Snooker Tour consists of
24:
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1198:"2024/25 World Snooker Tour Cards"
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986:from the original on 18 April 2013
871:from the original on 15 April 2011
702:from the original on 12 April 2013
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285:World Women’s Snooker Championship
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2855:Snooker professional competitions
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1504:. 7 February 2018. Archived from
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1172:"Main Tour Qualification 2018/19"
1096:from the original on 8 March 2017
797:from the original on 14 June 2012
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905:from the original on 24 May 2013
755:Årdalen, Hermund (15 May 2011).
463:. 9 January 2020. Archived from
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1287:"Pro Challenge Series Launched"
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1:
1889:List of withdrawn tournaments
1884:List of ranking title winners
1316:Hendon, Dave (2 March 2010).
1285:Hendon, Dave (30 June 2009).
964:Hearn, Barry (8 April 2013).
615:Hendon, Dave (15 July 2009).
558:Sports Industry and Marketing
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27:Series of snooker tournaments
1642:Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters
1256:"2000 / 2001 Challenge Tour"
372:saw the introduction of the
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7:
1867:List of snooker tournaments
1419:"Players Tour Championship"
1318:"Pro Challenge Series Axed"
584:Hendon, Dave (9 May 2011).
306:Secondary professional tour
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46:) is the main professional
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1795:World Seniors Championship
1763:Six-red World Championship
1672:International Championship
528:Wright, Joe (2 May 2022).
403:under the new name of the
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1384:"Ranking Points Schedule"
1146:"Invitational Tour Cards"
374:Players Tour Championship
316:Players Tour Championship
180:International Open Series
2860:Snooker tours and series
1753:World Masters of Snooker
312:Challenge Tour (snooker)
1784:UK Seniors Championship
1520:"WPBSA Q Tour Launched"
586:"On Cue for Cue School"
487:"WST | WPBSA | Snooker"
427:"WST | WPBSA | Snooker"
349:when it split with the
153:followed suit from the
1921:Current world rankings
298:2024–25 snooker season
243:2014–15 snooker season
142:2021-22 snooker season
112:
35:
1910:Cue sports portal
1791:Seniors Irish Masters
1743:Champion of Champions
1667:Northern Ireland Open
1540:Hayton, Eric (2004).
296:Further information:
281:World Women’s Snooker
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33:
1707:Players Championship
1613:Active professional
1443:2015–2017 calendars
1394:. 26 November 2010.
363:Pro Challenge Series
1826:Home Nations Series
1788:The Seniors Masters
1768:World Mixed Doubles
1758:Championship League
1632:Championship League
1615:snooker tournaments
1508:on 7 February 2018.
1425:on 16 February 2012
1225:, pp. 166–167.
1062:on 28 February 2012
1041:, pp. 171–174.
793:. 9 December 2010.
665:on 28 February 2012
146:Home Nations Series
121:invitational events
117:ranking tournaments
2776:Motorcycle racing
2701:Automobile racing
2314:World Snooker Tour
1851:World Seniors Tour
1811:World Snooker Tour
1731:Non-ranking events
1722:World Championship
1322:Snooker Scene Blog
1291:Snooker Scene Blog
1266:on 10 October 2010
1204:. 21 February 2024
1120:World Snooker Tour
891:"2013/14 Calendar"
621:Snooker Scene Blog
590:Snooker Scene Blog
212:Q School (snooker)
140:Starting from the
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2580:Modern pentathlon
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1717:Tour Championship
1551:978-0-9548549-0-4
1324:. Snooker Scene.
1293:. Snooker Scene.
1186:on 29 March 2018.
623:. Snooker Scene.
617:"Past Masters #9"
592:. Snooker Scene.
535:The Sporting News
467:on 9 January 2020
397:COVID-19 pandemic
231:COVID-19 pandemic
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