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2011 Q School
The 2011 Q School was a series of three snooker tournaments held at the start of the 2011–12 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 seasons. The events took place in May 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England with a total 12 players qualifying via the three tournaments. Format The 2011 Q School consisted of three events with 12 qualification places available. The two events had 124 entries competing for the 12 places on the main tour, four players qualifying from each of the three events. All matches were the best of seven frames. Event 1 The first 2011 Q School event was held from 11 to 16 May 2011 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England. Andrew Norman (snooker player), Andrew Norman, David Grace (snooker player), David Grace, Adam Wicheard and Robin Hull qualified. The results of the four final matches are given below. * 4–3 * 4–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q School (snooker)
The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification school for the World Snooker Tour. Overview 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 Snooker world rankings, world rankings in previous seasons can compete for a two-year tour card to play on the Main Tour. 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 Standings (sports), 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-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
