The snooker qualifiers in full swing have been over for three days and will eventually produce a shortlist for the Crucible main event. Although the tournament was in full swing, many snooker fans were not quite aware of the qualifying schedule. This article explains this in detail.
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The annual Snooker World Championship is the highest temple for professional snooker players. The prize money is nearly £3 million, the champion can get 500,000, and the runner-up has 200,000. Even if the first qualifying round is out, there is a revenue of 5,000 pounds. Due to the generous prize money, it has always been highly valued.
According to the established format, the World Championships are divided into two stages: the qualifier and the main tournament. Only 32 of them participated in the main tournament, with the world's top sixteen seeded players directly shortlisted, and the other 16 needed to pass the qualifiers. At this year's World Championships, Chinese players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao both directly participated in the main competition as seeded players.
A total of 128 people participated in the qualifiers, which were played in four rounds. The first round was attended by 64 players, and the winning 32 advanced to the next round by drawing lots. In addition, according to the world rankings, 32 people directly participated in the second round and 32 people directly participated in the third round. That is, 32 matches are played in each of the first three rounds of qualifying. After 32 matches in the first round, the 32 winners and the 32 who directly participated in the second round were paired up to determine the 32 who entered the third round. The 32 then played against the 32 who were directly shortlisted for the third round, resulting in 32 players from the fourth round of the qualifiers.
Four rounds of qualifying are played
In other words, in addition to the world's top sixteen seeded players waiting for their opponents directly in Crucible, the 17th to 48th-ranked players will participate in the third and fourth rounds of the play-offs. China's Ding Junhui has received tickets to Crucible directly as a seeded player many times before, but this year it has fallen to 30 places away and can only start from the third round of qualifying, which is why. Those in 49th to 80th place must start from the second qualifying round. Such is the case with China's Lu Haotian, who has eliminated Xu Si, who advanced in the first round, 6-4 in the second round and entered the third round of the qualifiers.
Unlike the previous three rounds, which were all 64 people and 32 matches, there were only 32 people left in the fourth round of the qualifiers, and there were only 16 matches. Through 16 showdowns, 16 were selected to advance to the Crucible main stage. The 16 will compete with the top sixteen seeded players in the world ranking until they reach the final champion. It can also be seen how important it is to be in the top sixteen of the world rankings, which allows players to directly secure tickets to the main tournament. Otherwise, once you start from the qualifiers, it is difficult to say whether you can come to Crucible.
It should also be noted that the first three rounds of the qualifiers were all short-term with 11 innings and 6 wins. The fourth round, like the first round of the main round, adopted a long-term system of 19 innings and 10 wins. Compared with short games, the long game system is less likely to break the cold, which is conducive to strong players to go further.
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