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Q School (snooker)

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

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See also: World Snooker Tour

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

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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.
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

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Year Location Entries Event End date Qualifier 1 Qualifier 2 Ref.
2022 Bangkok 70 Asia & Oceania Event 1 5 June   Muhammad Asif   Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
  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

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References

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