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.

Asia-Oceania Q School

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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