The 2019 Shoot Out (officially the 2019 BetVictor Snooker Shoot Out) was a professional ranking
snooker
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tournament, taking place from 21 to 24 February 2019 at the
Watford Colosseum
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in
Watford
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Initially a smal ...
, England. It was played under a
variation of the standard rules of snooker, and it was the fourteenth
ranking
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event of the
2018/2019 season.
Michael Georgiou
Michael Georgiou (born 18 January 1988) is a British-Greek Cypriots, Cypriot former professional snooker player from Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill. He is a practice partner of Igor Figueiredo and Hammad Miah, who practises at Whetstone Snooke ...
was the defending champion, but he lost to
Li Hang 28–45 in the second round.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
won his first career ranking title, beating
Michael Holt 74–0 in the final. Un-Nooh's 139 break in the semi-final was the highest in the history of the Shoot Out.
Tournament format
The tournament was played using a variation of the traditional snooker rules. The draw was randomised before each round. All matches were played over a single , each of which lasted up to 10 minutes. The event featured a variable ; shots played in the first five minutes were allowed 15 seconds while the final five had a 10-second timer. All awarded the opponent a . Unlike traditional snooker, if a ball did not hit a on every shot, it was a foul. Rather than a
coin toss
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, a
lag
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Lag
* Łąg, Poland
* Lag (company), a French guitar maker
* Lag (cue sports), a brief pre-game competition to determine which player will go first
* Latency (engineering), a slower response time in computing, co ...
was used to choose which player . In the event of a draw, each player received a shot at the this is known as a "blue ball shootout". The player who the ball with the from inside the and the blue ball on its spot with the opponent missing won the match.
Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
* Winner: £32,000
* Runner-up: £16,000
* Semi-final: £8,000
* Quarter-final: £4,000
* Last 16: £2,000
* Last 32: £1,000
* Last 64: £500
* Last 128: £250
(prize money at this stage did not count towards the world rankings)
* Highest break: £2,000
* Total: £146,000
* The "rolling 147 prize" for a
maximum break
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: £5,000
Tournament draw
All times in
Greenwich Mean Time
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. Times for quarter-finals, semi-finals and final are approximate. Players in bold denote match winners.
Note: w/d=withdrawn; w/o=walk-over
Round 1
21 February – 13:00
* 37–67
* 20–68
* 136–1
* 19–67
* 8–61
* 60–59
* 77–26
* 80–26
* 59–2
* 58–34
* 0–63
* 49–69
* 36–18
* 62–1
* 73–15
* w/d–w/o
21 February – 19:00
* 62–63
* 1–49
* 5–34
* 39–73
* 1–72
* 7–68
* 41–7
* 23–50
* 64–0
* 0–122
* 21–48
* 19–74
* 37–55
* 94–0
* 88–52
* 26–54
22 February – 13:00
* 0–84
* 2–23
* 78–13
* 68–15
* 18–70
* 36–30
* 18–24
* 21–67
* 35–16
* 27–19
* 16–57
* 41–28
* 0–64
* 18–57
* 0–95
* 69–22
22 February – 19:00
* 75–11
* 54–55
* 17–61
* 52–12
* 85–6
* 33–19
* 20–56
* 35–66
* 100–7
* 82–14
* 12–35
* 18–58
* 0–65
* 49–7
* 16–110
* 63–28
Round 2
23 February – 13:00
* 0–137
* 37–12
* 25–10
* 39–28
* 62–25
* 1–74
* 60–16
* 9–36
* 41–18
* 34–21
* 46–17
* 18–32
* 8–42
* 120–8
* 11–101
* 38–25
23 February – 19:00
* 22–72
* 6–51
* 44–51
* 13–61
* 34–47
* 51–23
* 31–6
* 43–33
* 22–61
* 52–24
* 13–17
* 45–28
* 13–42
* 37–41
* 26–71
* 75–0
Round 3
24 February – 13:00
* 68–5
* 62–0
* 12–65
* 54–0
* 14–10
* 29–12
* 10–7
* 26–27
* 6–55
* 29–2
* 5–15
* 60–39
* 8–81
* 74–33
* 21–32
* 22–2
Round 4
24 February – 19:00
* 29–47
* 37–7
* 9–54
* 36–32
* 38–40
* 15–58
* 0–74
* 16–86
Quarter-finals
24 February – 21:00
* 97–3
* 20–55
* 4–58
* 53–13
Semi-finals
24 February – 22:15
* 139–0
* 21–56
Final
Century breaks
Total: 4
* 139
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (, ; born 18 April 1985) is a Thai professional snooker player.
He has won one ranking event, the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out, and finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Open. He is regarded as one of the fastest snooker players ...
* 133
Luca Brecel
Luca Brecel (; born 8 March 1995) is a Belgian professional snooker player. A four-time snooker world rankings, ranking event winner, Brecel is a former World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Champion, having won the 2023 World Snooker Champ ...
* 132
Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden (born 11 November 1982) is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Walden turned professional in 2000 and it took him eight years to win his first ranking title at the Shanghai Masters. He has since won the 2012 Wuxi ...
* 100
Martin Gould
Martin Gould (born 14 September 1981) is an English former professional snooker player from Pinner in the London Borough of Harrow. He has appeared in four ranking finals and won one ranking title, the 2016 German Masters.
Career
Gould began ...
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