India to host pro snooker event next year

BANGALORE: Nearly two decades after playing host to a few top world snooker professionals in an invitational event in the country, India will get to see who's who of snooker on a regular basis. For, come February 2012, India will host its first-ever World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) ranking event.

Witz78 wrote:More good news.

Could someone care to post a full list of the actual proper rankers next season as im losing track of things now haha

Witz78 wrote:More good news.

Could someone care to post a full list of the actual proper rankers next season as im losing track of things now haha

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Theres another sian ranking event in late march along with the China Open. It's reaching a point where you could nearly have a seperate Asian tour now. Theres five ranking events, the World Cup, two invitationals and possibly some PTC events.

Tubberlad wrote:Wow, I did not expect that one...

Witz, I'm losing track myself but I think that makes:

Worlds
UK
World Open
China
Shanghai
Wales
Australia
GERMANY
INDIA
PTC Finals
PTCs

non ranking:
Masters
Brazil
Chinese invitational AKA Wuxi Classic
World Cup
Seniors
Shoot out
Premier League
CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE
Power Snooker....

Tubberlad wrote:Cheers, there's a Hainain Classic aswell, isn't there? Would love to know the total prize money for the year. They should have a money list to run alongside the ranking list, to include non-ranking events and really flex the muscles of the sport.

Witz78 wrote:

Tubberlad wrote:Cheers, there's a Hainain Classic aswell, isn't there? Would love to know the total prize money for the year. They should have a money list to run alongside the ranking list, to include non-ranking events and really flex the muscles of the sport.

6 million i think. a big improvement on the 3 million it was with 7 events under Walker ONLY 2 years ago

though when you think about it, thats 6 million between 96 players on tour fighting over it, and a drop in the ocean compared to other sports.

Ultimately we want to be aiming towards an even fuller tour (the PTCs will be reduced in time as they make way for full rankers) with 10 million at least in prize money and the chance for someone to earn a million a season in prize money which Davis amazingly achieved 25 years ago

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:I wouldn't get rid of the PTC Events. They're great for any newcomers. If I was a player starting out I'd far rather be playing in tournaments with a fairly level playing field and with the chance of playing a Higgins or Trump than being ghetto'd into qualifiers playing other newcomers for the chance to meet some journeyman who has been doing this for 15 years and is on his home territory. One way to clear up the season would be to change the way you qualify for big events. The PTC season finishes just before the UK Championship. I'd have the 16 highest ranked players not already in the top 16 as the qualifiers just like in Darts for the World Matchplay.

Alex0paul wrote:They could probably get rid of the Championship League now in my opinion. If they were doing it basically to stream an event on betting websites then try and stream some of the PTCs through them.

Witz78 wrote:

Tubberlad wrote:Wow, I did not expect that one...

Witz, I'm losing track myself but I think that makes:

Worlds
UK
World Open
China
Shanghai
Wales
Australia
GERMANY
INDIA
PTC Finals
PTCs

non ranking:
Masters
Brazil
Chinese invitational AKA Wuxi Classic
World Cup
Seniors
Shoot out
Premier League
CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE
Power Snooker....

ive filled a couple of blanks, weve prob still missed a few though

Monique wrote:That India event isn't confirmed by WPBSA yet and frankly, going by the current provisional calendar http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/Tourna ... 2012season I can't see how to fit it in February 2011; that month is already pretty full. Also I wonder how they will come up with 10 qualifyers. I don't reckon that they could run a normal qualifying set of qualifiers rounds and then randomly draw 6 unfortunates "out" of it. Any knock out process will always yield a "power of 2" number of blokes, 1,2,4,8,16 ... but never 10 and I doubt that a massive league format is doable... So at least that bit looks pretty bizarre to me.

Monique wrote:Yes but what about the qualifying process? They must find some space in the calendar for that too. And come up with 10? That's bizarre.
Also a PTC can't possibly carry a 250000£ prize money...
So there are quite a few inconsistencies there and we have to wait for confirmation on WSA regarding the event itself and it's format.

SnookerFan wrote:Has that Australian one been confirmed, or is that still a bit up in the air?

I can see why people are losing track.