2015 Champion of Champions

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Champion of Champions
Tournament information
Dates10–15 November 2015 (2015-11-10 – 2015-11-15)
Venue Ricoh Arena
City Coventry
CountryEngland
Organisation Matchroom Sport
FormatNon-ranking event
Total prize fund £300,000
Winner's share£100,000
Highest breakFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Neil Robertson  (AUS) (144)
Final
ChampionFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Neil Robertson  (AUS)
Runner-upUlster Banner.svg  Mark Allen  (NIR)
Score10–5
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The 2015 188BET Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 10 and 15 November 2015 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. [1] [2] It was the third staging of the tournament since it was revived in 2013. In the United Kingdom, the tournament was broadcast on ITV4.

Contents

Ronnie O'Sullivan, who won the title in 2013 and 2014, chose not to defend his title in 2015. [3]

Neil Robertson won the tournament, defeating Mark Allen 10–5 in the final. [4]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for 2015 is shown below: [5]

Players

Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments since the previous Champion of Champions. Entry was guaranteed for the defending champion, winners of rankings events and winners the following non-rankings events: 2015 Masters, 2015 Championship League, 2015 World Grand Prix, 2015 Players Championship Grand Final and 2015 World Cup. [6] Remaining places were then allocated to winners of European Tour events (in the order they were played) and then, if required, to winners of Asian Tour events and then, winners of the 2015 Six-red World Championship, 2015 Snooker Shoot-Out and 2015 World Seniors Championship. [7]

The following players qualified for the tournament: [8] [9]

SeedPlayerQualified asRef.
w/d Flag of England.svg Ronnie O'Sullivan Winner of 2014 Champion of Champions and 2014 UK Championship [10]
2 Flag of England.svg Mark Selby Winner of 2015 German Masters and 2015 China Open [11]
3 Flag of England.svg Stuart Bingham Winner of 2015 World Snooker Championship and 2015 Championship League [12]
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson Winner of 2015 Gdynia Open [13]
5 Flag of England.svg Shaun Murphy Winner of 2015 Masters and 2014 Ruhr Open [14]
6 Flag of England.svg Judd Trump Winner of 2015 World Grand Prix [15]
7 Flag of England.svg Barry Hawkins Winner of 2015 Riga Open [16]
8 Flag of England.svg Joe Perry Winner of 2015 Players Championship Grand Final [17]
1 [18] Flag of Scotland.svg John Higgins Winner of 2015 Welsh Open, 2015 Australian Goldfields Open, and 2015 International Championship [19]
Ulster Banner.svg Mark Allen Winner of 2015 Bulgarian Open [20]
Flag of Scotland.svg Stephen Maguire Winner of 2014 Lisbon Open [21]
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Michael White Winner of 2015 Indian Open [22]
Flag of England.svg Kyren Wilson Winner of 2015 Shanghai Masters [23]
Flag of England.svg Ali Carter Winner of 2015 Paul Hunter Classic [24]
Flag of England.svg Rory McLeod Winner of 2015 Ruhr Open [25]
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhou Yuelong Winner of 2015 World Cup [26]
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yan Bingtao Winner of 2015 World Cup [27]

Eight players were seeded. Seedings were determined in early October, before defending champion and top seed Ronnie O'Sullivan withdrew from the event. [28] Other seeds were based on the latest world rankings (revision 3). [9] Later in October, John Higgins was chosen as the final seed, being the highest ranked player who had then qualified and wasn't already seeded. [18] He replaced O'Sullivan in the draw, taking the position allocated for the top seed. [29] Mark Allen was ranked higher than Higgins in these rankings (revision 3) but hadn't qualified at that time.

Main draw

[30]

Group semi-finals (last 16)
Best of 7 frames 		Group finals (quarter-finals)
Best of 11 frames 		Semi-finals
Best of 11 frames 		Final
Best of 19 frames
            
1 Flag of Scotland.svg John Higgins 4
Flag of England.svg Ali Carter 2
1 Flag of Scotland.svg John Higgins 5
Group 1(11 November)
8 Flag of England.svg Joe Perry 6
8 Flag of England.svg Joe Perry 4
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Michael White 2
8 Flag of England.svg Joe Perry 4
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson 6
5 Flag of England.svg Shaun Murphy 2
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yan Bingtao 4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yan Bingtao 3
Group 4(12 November)
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson 6
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson 4
Flag of England.svg Rory McLeod 0
4 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Neil Robertson 10
Ulster Banner.svg Mark Allen 5
3 Flag of England.svg Stuart Bingham 3
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhou Yuelong 4
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhou Yuelong 3
Group 3(10 November)
  Flag of England.svg Kyren Wilson 6
6 Flag of England.svg Judd Trump 2
Flag of England.svg Kyren Wilson 4
Flag of England.svg Kyren Wilson 3
  Ulster Banner.svg Mark Allen 6
7 Flag of England.svg Barry Hawkins 2
Ulster Banner.svg Mark Allen 4
Ulster Banner.svg Mark Allen 6
Group 2(13 November)
  Flag of Scotland.svg Stephen Maguire 2
2 Flag of England.svg Mark Selby 1
Flag of Scotland.svg Stephen Maguire 4

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Paul Collier.
Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England, 15 November 2015.
Neil Robertson (4)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 		10–5 Mark Allen
Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland
Afternoon:63–35, 20–107 (103), 97–6 (53), 133–0 (114), 69–20 (69), 45–57, 69–44 (54), 5–81 (60), 75–25 (71)
Evening:86–0 (60), 76–35, 55–65 (Robertson 54), 0–112 (112), 46–38, 56–24
114Highest break112
1Century breaks2
750+ breaks3

Century breaks

Total: 14 [31]

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