In the early morning of December 13, Beijing time, the third leg of the season "Local Series" and "European Series", the Snooker Scottish Open came to a successful end, and finally the Belgian genius Brechel defeated Higgins 9-5, sent wizards 4 consecutive Asia, got rid of the haze of the British Championship defeat, won the second ranking championship of his career, won 70,000 pounds in one fell swoop and the championship qualification next season, returned to the TOP16 after two seasons, and jumped to the second place in the "European Series" prize list. This makes the competition of the series red envelope enter a white-hot stage.
The total prize money list of the "European Series" is shown in the figure below.
According to the list, we can see that Higgins temporarily ranked first with an embarrassing record of 90,000 pounds in Sanya. With Brechel in second place at £14,000, this advantage is almost negligible with five races remaining; Robertson is in third place with one race; Allen is in third place with a round of two of them; O'Sullivan is in the top five with two round-fours; China only Yan Bingtao is in the top ten, ranking 6th with £33,000, and Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong are only in 7,500 pounds and £4,000 in the 3 races, which is not ideal in the European series.
Trump, the winner of the first two seasons of the series, failed to regain his strength in the first three races, finishing 7th with just £27,500; Mark King finished 8th and Gilbert and McGill shared the 9th-10th place. Ritchie Wharton is in 11th place, and top players such as Selby, Maguire, Murphy and Karen Wilson are all in the top ten, ranking 12-15, and if they want to fight back, they must perform well in higher prize-winning events such as the German Masters or the European Masters.
According to the official regulations of the World Snooker Tour, this season, the 4 "local series" will be included in the "European Series" category, and the entire "European Series" will be expanded to 8 stops, which completely avoids the loss of suspense of the 150,000 pounds of "red envelope ownership" after the two races in the first two seasons, and greatly increases the fierceness of the red envelope competition in the series. According to the schedule, the remaining five races are the One Time Limited Time and German Masters in January, the European Masters in February, the Welsh Open and the Gibraltar Open in March.