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. The

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, for players not on the main

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. A series of six events was played with the leading money-winner gaining a place on the main tour for the

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. The 16 highest-ranked players who had not already got a place on the main tour for the 2023–24 season, gained entry to a further event, the WPBSA Q Tour Playoff, the winner of which also got a place.

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won two of the six events to be the leading money-winner and gain a place on the main tour.

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won the playoff to gain the second place.

Format

Except for the playoff, events were played over three days. The first day was an open qualifying day with 16 places available. The main draw started on the second day when the 16 qualifiers were joined by the 48 seeded players who qualified based on their rankings in the 2022 Q School Order of Merit to make a first round field of 64 players. There were 3 rounds on the second day and a further three on the final day, to determine the winner of the event. The 48 who qualified directly included the top 32 eligible players from the 2022 UK Q School Order of Merit, the top eight from the 2022 Asia-Oceania Q School Order of Merit, and the eight highest ranked junior players not already qualified.

Prize fund

Each event featured a prize fund of £12,000 with the winner receiving £2,500. * Winner: £2,500 * Runner-up: £1,200 * Semi-final: £750 * Quarter-final: £550 * Last 16: £275 * Last 32: £150 * Total: £12,000

Schedule

The schedule for the six regular events and the playoff is given below.

Rankings

Below are listed the leading players in the prize money rankings. Players on equal points were ranked by "countback", with the player having won the most prize money in the latest event played being ranked higher.

Event 1

The first event took place at North East Snooker Centre,

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, from 2 to 4 September 2022.

Ross Muir Ross Muir (born 6 October 1995 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2013 after graduating from event two of Q School, defeating David Morris 4–0 in the final round. Career Junior career Muir ha ...

beat George Pragnell 5–2 in the final. Muir lost just five frames in the six rounds of the event. The final-day results are given below.

Event 2

The second event took place at Castle Snooker Club,

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, from 16 to 18 September 2022.

beat George Pragnell 5–1 in the final, having won his quarter and semi-final matches in the deciding frame. The final-day results are given below.

Event 3

The third event took place at the Delta Moon Club,

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, Belgium from 14 to 16 October 2022.

Farakh Ajaib Farakh Ajaib (born 3 February 1991) is a British Pakistani professional snooker player from Lancashire. Career In 2018, Ajaib was crowned the inaugural East Lancashire Snooker Championship winner. He was a ‘top-up’ player for several main t ...

beat

Harvey Chandler Harvey Chandler (born 19 April 1995) is an English professional snooker player from Northamptonshire. Early and personal life He is from Raunds in North Northamptonshire. He started playing snooker at the age of 13 years-old. His father would ...

5–3 in the final. Chandler took a 2–0 lead before Ajaib won the next four frames, with a 45 clearance in frame 6 after Chandler had made a break of 60. The final-day results are given below.

Event 4

The fourth event took place at the Snookerhallen Club,

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, Sweden from 25 to 27 November 2022.

Billy Castle Billy Joe Castle (born 14 July 1992 in Marchwood, Hampshire) is an English professional snooker player. Career Castle came through the 2017 Q School by winning six matches to earn a two-year card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2017–18 a ...

beat

Andrew Higginson Andrew Higginson (born 13 December 1977) is an English professional snooker player from Widnes, Cheshire. He is best known for being the surprise finalist of the 2007 Welsh Open (snooker), 2007 Welsh Open. Career Early years After some succ ...

in the deciding frame of the final, on a re-spotted black. The final-day results are given below.

Event 5

The fifth event took place at Landywood Snooker Club,

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, from 9 to 11 December 2022. Daniel Wells beat

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5–2 in the final. Wells lost the first three frames of his semi-final against

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, but won the next four to reach the final. The final-day results are given below.

Event 6

The sixth event took place at the Northern Snooker Centre,

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, from 6 to 8 January 2023. The final was between

and

. Both had won a Q Tour event earlier in the season and the points situation was such that the winner of the match would head the rankings and gain a place on the main tour for the following season. In the final O'Donnell won the opening frame with a break of 142 and went on to win the match by five frames to one. The final-day results are given below.

Playoff

The final event, the WPBSA Q Tour Playoff, was held at the Q House Snooker Academy in

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on 4 and 5 March. The event saw the 16 highest ranked players, excluding the player already qualified for the main tour, competed for a further place on that tour. Daniel Wells withdrew on medical grounds and was replaced by

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. Two rounds were played each day with matches over 7 frames except for the final which was over 9 frames. The draw was seeded, based on the final rankings.

beat

5–2 in the final. Carty lost the first three frames in his opening match against

but recovered to win 4–3. He was two frames down in his semi-final match against top seed

but again won four frames in a row to win 4–2.

References

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