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PTC Grand Final Line up Anounced.

Postby Wildey

http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsAr ... 45,00.html

PTC Order of Merit

Mark Selby
Judd Trump
Stephen Maguire
John Higgins
Neil Robertson
Rod Lawler
Mark Allen
Martin Gould
Ben Woollaston
Graeme Dott
Jamie Burnett
Jack Lisowski
Andrew Higginson
Barry Hawkins
Ken Doherty
Anthony McGill
Joe Swail
Ali Carter
Joe Perry
Marco Fu
Mark Williams
Kurt Maflin
Mark Davis
Alfie Burden
Mark Joyce

APTC Winners and Order of Merit

Stuart Bingham
Stephen Lee
Ding Junhui
Li Hang
Robert Milkins
Tom Ford
Cao Yupeng

Notice the inclusion of Stephen Lee.

question is will he be eligible to play after his Suspension in mid October.

if hes not eligable the Next player on the APTC Order of Merit is Xiao Guodong and will take his place visa pending obviously.

Re: PTC Grand Final Line up Anounced.

Postby Casey

What is the seeding structure, Wild? You would expect a decision to be made regarding Lee before then. He is the defending champion so does that effect the seeding/draw?

Re: PTC Grand Final Line up Anounced.

Postby Wildey

Casey wrote:What is the seeding structure, Wild? You would expect a decision to be made regarding Lee before then. He is the defending champion so does that effect the seeding/draw?

Don't know how the seedings work but regarding defending champions this is one event where they don't get any priority.

Last year Shaun Murphy was defending Champion and he didn't make the cut to play in it.

Re: PTC Grand Final Line up Anounced.

Postby Wildey

Witz78 wrote:who are the 4 (?) Asian players to come through the Order of Merit on the APTC to gain a tour place next season?

Highlighted in Green

http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?te ... eason=2012

but there's 5 there because of Equal Points

Li Hang and Jin Long are definitly both been on the Main Tour before Jin Long in fact turned pro in 2001

The other 3 in the Mix are

Shi Hanqing
Cao Xinlong
Mei Xiwen

somehow they have to be separated with 1 missing out.

Re: PTC Grand Final Line up Anounced.

Postby PLtheRef

Wild WC wrote:
Casey wrote:What is the seeding structure, Wild? You would expect a decision to be made regarding Lee before then. He is the defending champion so does that effect the seeding/draw?

Don't know how the seedings work but regarding defending champions this is one event where they don't get any priority.

Last year Shaun Murphy was defending Champion and he didn't make the cut to play in it.



This could prove to be quite a problem considering that essentially we have three ways of qualifying for the tournament - The PTC OOM, the APTC OOM and the winning of a APTC

You've got 25 qualifying via the main or OOM, 5 ( or 6) coming from the APTCs and 2 (or 1) qualifying via winning a tournament

For me there are three ways they are going to do this

1. Use the current world ranking seeding list essentially as far as they can but that would automatically mean Li Hang is going to be seeded 32 and face the number 1 seeded qualifier

2. Amalgamate the two OOM's in some way, to provide a ranking of all 32 qualifiers.

3. A completely random draw for the first round which is bracketed from the Last 16 onwards