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Tournament information | |
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Venue | Mattioli Arena BSAT Academy |
Location | Leicester Bangkok |
Country | England Thailand |
Established | 2011 2022 (Asia-Oceania) |
Organisation(s) | World Snooker Tour |
Format | Qualifying school for the Main Tour and Q Tour |
Recent edition | 2025 |
The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification school for the World Snooker Tour.
Q School is established in 2011 as an attempt to streamline the qualification process and is held annually before the start of the professional season, where amateurs and ex-professionals who dropped out of the top 64 in world rankings in previous seasons can compete for a two-year tour card to play on the Main Tour. [1] It replaced the amateur tournament International Open Series, the former second-tier snooker series organised by the English Association of Snooker and Billiards (EASB).
In 2022, a Q School branch in Bangkok was established for entrants from the Asia-Oceania region. 2 qualifying places were awarded to the winners whilst discontinuing qualification through Order of Merit in Q School Europe.
Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Winners of quarter-finals will be joining the World Snooker Main Tour, whilst the top 32 players of Q School Europe along with other junior players and Asia-Oceania qualifiers will be qualified for the second-tier WPBSA Q Tour.
For each event, the players who qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.
Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 | Ref. |
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2022 | Bangkok | 70 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 5 June | ![]() | ![]() ![]() | [45] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 11 June | ![]() | ![]() | [46] | |||
2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 6 June | ![]() | ![]() | [47] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 12 June | ![]() | ![]() | [48] | |||
2024 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 27 May | ![]() | ![]() | [49] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 2 June | ![]() | ![]() | [50] | |||
2025 | Bangkok | 86 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 18 May | ![]() | ![]() | [51] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 24 May | ![]() | ![]() | [52] |