On 8 June 2020, the first stage of the new Snooker Champions League, the group stage, was over, and Krige and Odderner shared the last two qualifying spots. The winners' group will be held on June 9 and 10, bringing together the four ranking champions B to form a veritable "death group".
Allen, the last top 16 player to appear, won the first two rounds of the game in a row, accumulating 6 points with Odernell, but fell behind by a goal difference, which means that Allen must beat Odener in the last game to qualify. In the match, O'Denel won the first set, and Allen completed a single reverse in two consecutive sets to win 2-1. In the 4th set became a tiebreaker for the two, Allen made a mistake after several rounds of defense, and O'Denel seized the opportunity to shoot a 62 to complete the super score, and finally drew 2-2 with Allen to grab the next promotion spot.
The 6th group match was played at a high level, with Craig, Carter and Serte all breaking the hundred. Two rounds later, Carter and Selter took the lead in withdrawing from the battle for promotion. Cregie was impeccable in his direct conversations with Dell, opening with a 131 and 71 consecutive shots, a 2-0 score that helped Cregie secure a promotion spot, and then Cregie ended the game with a 123 points, beating Dell 3-0, who scored nine points in only the second set.
At this point, the group stage competition is all over, a total of 22 players combined to shoot 32 hundreds, O'Connor's 143 points temporarily became the highest single score, and Gary Wilson played 4 hundreds is currently the most broken hundred players. The winners' group will continue, bringing together the four ranking champion B to form a veritable death group; O'Sullivan's main competitor in Group C is Bingham; and Liang Wenbo, who is in Group D, is the only Chinese player in the winner's group. The four winners in the winner's group will compete for the championship in the final rounds using the exact same format.
Winner grouping
Group A: Mark Joyce, Luca Brechel, Gary Wilson, Ashley Carty
Group B: Judd Trump, Barry Hawkins, Ryan Day, David Gilbert
Group C: Stuart Bingham, Harvey Chandler, Sam Creggy, Ronnie O'Sullivan
Group D: Liang Wenbo, Ben Wollaston, Martin Odenell, Tom Ford
* Group C and D started at 22:00 on June 9, and Group A and B started at 22:00 on June 10