by roy142857 » 14 Feb 2015 Read
The 2015 Q School will like 2014 offer 8 tour cards for the following two seasons, and a ranking list will determine invitations to Pro Tour tournaments that lack a full entry list in 2015/16..
A new venue for 2015 however as it will be held at Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton, Staffordshire.
Entry fee still £600, players have to enter at
www.wsplayers.com by the closing date of 6th April
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by SteveJJ » 06 Apr 2015 Read
And Q School sees the return of Andy Hicks.
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by darloboy » 07 Apr 2015 Read
Where is the list of participants published?
Gutted that Ant Parsons has not entered again, crying shame really.
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by darloboy » 07 Apr 2015 Read
Thanks for that, some quality names there gonan be a difficult Q school this year.
Wonder which pro's that fall off will enter...I know Elliot Slessor has confirmed he will enter if he doesn't get a new tour card via the EOM, but he won't know until next week so I guess there must be an extension until after the World Quali's has finished
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by SteveJJ » 07 Apr 2015 Read
darloboy wrote:Thanks for that, some quality names there gonan be a difficult Q school this year.
Wonder which pro's that fall off will enter...I know Elliot Slessor has confirmed he will enter if he doesn't get a new tour card via the EOM, but he won't know until next week so I guess there must be an extension until after the World Quali's has finished
I see Alex Davies name is already down. Dave Harold would be interesting as he hasn't entered the worlds. May be retiring?
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by darloboy » 07 Apr 2015 Read
SteveJJ wrote:darloboy wrote:Thanks for that, some quality names there gonan be a difficult Q school this year.
Wonder which pro's that fall off will enter...I know Elliot Slessor has confirmed he will enter if he doesn't get a new tour card via the EOM, but he won't know until next week so I guess there must be an extension until after the World Quali's has finished
I see Alex Davies name is already down. Dave Harold would be interesting as he hasn't entered the worlds. May be retiring?
I could give you the lowdown on Dave Harold but not on here - been accused of heresay once already today so don't think this is an appropriate forum for it. If you are on Twitter I will give you the info mate.
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by Tamctus » 07 Apr 2015 Read
Last I heard was that Robin Hull will enter Q school if he can't stay on tour.
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by darloboy » 07 Apr 2015 Read
Tamctus wrote:Last I heard was that Robin Hull will enter Q school if he can't stay on tour.
Lets hope so - playing half a season per year and he almost earns a tour card, he has incredible talent
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by Dannyboy » 09 Apr 2015 Read
A total of 111 players have entered the World Snooker Qualifying School for 2015, a reduction on 30 since the previous year:
Owais Ali
Zafran Ali
Gareth Allen
Joshua Baddeley
Jamie Barrett
Darren Barton
Roshan Birdi
Adam Bobat
Jack Bradford
Danny Brindle
Oliver Brown
Sean Bullock
James Burnett
Ashley Carty
Ryan Causton
Adam Chalkley
Brad chappell
Brian Cini
Rhys Clark
Jamie Rhys Clarke
Robert Cloherty
Michael Collumb
Darren Cook
Joshua Cooper
Sam Craigie
Alex Davies
Mark Davies
Marc Davis
Paul Davison
Peter Delaney
Simon Dent
Peter Devlin
Callum Downing
John Eames
Adam Edge
Nico Elton
Leo Fernandez
Kacper Filipiak
Lewis Frampton
Luke Garland
Matthew Glasby
Gareth Green
Josh Harrison
Louis Heathcote
Andy Hicks
Ross Higgins
Thomas Hilbourne
Kishan Hirani
Danny Hocking
Ashley Hugill
Clayton Humphries
Jeff Jacobs
Darryl James
Nick Jennings
David John
Ben Jones
Chris Jones
Duane Jones
Rune Kampe
Keith Keldie
Christopher Keogan
Chris Kilcoyne
Adam King
Reece King
Lukas Kleckers
Sanderson Lam
Sascha Lippe
Scott MacFarlane
Eddie Manning
Andy Marriott
David Maslov
Conor McCormack
James McGouran
Grant Miles
Andrew Milliard
Julian Mills
Yasir Nadeem
Saqib Nasir
Jake Nicholson
Joe O'Connor
Martin O'Donnell
Jamie O'Neill
Stephen Ormerod
Robin Otto
Rhydian Owen
Mark Owens
Andreas Ploner
Imran Puri
Thomas Rees
Joe Roberts
Shachar Ruberg
Dessie Sheehan
Lin Shuai
James Silverwood
Adam Stefanow
Ben Tanner
Jason Tart
Ale Taubman
Samuel Thistlewhite
Joshua Thomond
Wayne Townsend
Mitchell Travis
Darryn Walker
Daniel Wells
Jason Weston
Erik Wilson
Sydney Wilson
Zhao Xintong
Li Yan
Wang Zepeng
Chen Zhe
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by SteveJJ » 09 Apr 2015 Read
There will be a few more when the pros fall off the tour.
I think some people have got a bit more realistic and so you aren't getting the likes of Tony Knowles chancing their arm anymore.
If there is a continued decline of entrants, I'm sure there will be a clamour to have q school events elsewhere in the world.
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by Alex0paul » 09 Apr 2015 Read
Good luck to the Cream of Devon
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by SnookerEd25 » 18 Apr 2015 Read
Interesting to see Andy Hicks & Dessie Sheehan amongst the young hopefuls there...
Sanderson Lam & Martin O'Donnell won the EBSA play-offs this week, and gained 2yr tour cards, so will not need to go through Q-School; Asam Duffy had a disappointing week failing to qualify for the Crucible, & losing in the EBSA, so presumably will be adding his name to the list in due course...
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by fridge46 » 18 Apr 2015 Read
QSchool entry has been extended to April 22nd!
There are now 155 entrants (though as pointed out, some have already qualified for the main tour via other routes)
New names include Reanne Evans, Josh Boileau, Adam Duffy and Ben Harrison.
A quick look at the current pros that will drop off tour after WC show that only 3 have entered qschool at the moment.
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by Skullman » 18 Apr 2015 Read
Which three?
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by fridge46 » 18 Apr 2015 Read
Skullman wrote:Which three?
Alex Davies, Lee Page and Chris Norbury. I might have missed some though
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by fridge46 » 22 Apr 2015 Read
Entries have now closed - 166 in total. Might be a few more added when their cheques have cleared!
Besides the 3 I mentioned previously, current pros set to lose their cards that have entered are:
Elliot Slessor
Alex Borg
Alexander Ursenbacher
Hammad Miah
Ahmed Saif
Marcus Campbell
The highest ranked players not qualified for next year yet to appear on the list are Dave Harold, Andrew Pagett, Lyu Haotian, Igor Figueiredo, John Astley, Jak Jones, Andrew Norman and Ratchayothin Yotharuck.
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by Alex0paul » 22 Apr 2015 Read
I believe Andrew Pagett has given up.
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by Skullman » 22 Apr 2015 Read
Heard the same about Andrew Norman.
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by fridge46 » 24 Apr 2015 Read
Event 1Event 2FormatAnd there are no less than 22 different nations represented: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Canada (not Pagulayan sadly :/), USA, Singapore, China, Russia, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Qatar, Malta, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Sweden.
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