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.
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]
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 | Muhammad Asif | Asjad Iqbal [40] | [41] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 11 June | Dechawat Poomjaeng | Himanshu Jain | [42] | |||
2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 6 June | Thor Chuan Leong | Manasawin Phetmalaikul | [43] |
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 12 June | Ishpreet Singh Chadha | He Guoqiang | [44] | |||
2024 | Bangkok | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 27 May | ||||
Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 2 June |
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The 2017 Q School was a series of two snooker tournaments held at the start of the 2017–18 snooker season. An event for amateur players, it served as a qualification event for a place on the professional World Snooker Tour for the following two seasons. The events took place in May 2017 at the Guild Hall in Preston, Lancashire, England with a total 12 players qualifying via the two tournaments and the Order of Merit.
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