Q School 2014

Saturday 10th of May - Wednesday 21st of May at The Capital Venue Gloucester

Its that time of year again when young Talented Snooker Players will start to think what could be if they get on the Main Snooker Tour.

Yes Hardship regarding Traveling Expenses and Expenses in general but also a Opportunity for the Ambitious and successful players to Play the likes of Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Ding Junhui and Ronnie O.Sullivan on the Main Snooker Tour.

Good things in life costs so pay £1,000 and get 3 chances to become a professional Snooker Player.

Q SCHOOL 1 DRAW
Q SCHOOL 2 DRAW

ORDER OF PLAY

More Entrants

Kurtis Weaver
Luke Garland
Oliver Brown
Anthony Massey
Ashley Hugill
Michael Collumb
Michael Wild
Adam Edge
Thomas Hilborne
Sam Harvey
Jason Tart

Wildey wrote:More Entrants

Kurtis Weaver
Luke Garland
Oliver Brown
Anthony Massey
Ashley Hugill
John Ward
Michael Collumb
Michael Wild
Adam Edge
Thomas Hilborne
Sam Harvey
Jason Tart

Do you have a full list of players son?

It should also be noted that there are now only 8 places available via qschool.

its £600 to enter not £1000 because of less places I presume.

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Brandon Sargeant
Ma TingPeng
David Maslov
Nico Elton
Gareth Allen
Mark Davies
Joe O'Connor
Marc Davis

Yes there are only 2 events instead of 3 so they reduced the entry to £600

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has entered Q School which is surprising considering how little he played during his 2 year tour card

He had visa troubles didn't he?

Jason Tart

Skullman wrote:He had visa troubles didn't he?

but for 2 years?


im not a expert on visa issues but that sounds extreme.

Wildey wrote:Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has entered Q School which is surprising considering how little he played during his 2 year tour card

thats good to see

another world champion entered is Chris Melling
also current main tour players Li Yan, Liu Chuang and Zhang Anda entered
and... Joe Rhone?

Are my eyes playing tricks on me or has Alex Pagulayan entered QSchool?!?!

Did he not win the canadian championship 2 seasons ago but declined his place on tour?

yes thats him heres his blog http://www.alexpagulayan.com/blog.html
the Canadian champion probably gets a tour card this year too it will be in june so he gets an other chance if he fails in q school
in fact that would be better no need for another Floyd Ziegler on the tour

Former US Pool player and 2013 US Snooker Champion Corey Deuel has entered.

Looks like more countries will be represented this year ... Richard Somauroo of Mauritius, Brian Cini of Malta, Andreas Ploner of Austria, Kacper Filipiak and Adam Stefanów of Poland, Rahul Sachdev of India, Shachar Ruberg of Israel, Hans Blanckaert of Belgium, Hossein Vafaei Ayouri of Iran and Filipe Cardoso of Portugal amongst those adding to the International flavour.

Another entry that's only just appeared is Callum Downing, who is the EASB paid-for entry (having won their qualifying competition in January, beat Syd Wilson in the final)

More Entrants

Nathan Jones
Jamie Chui
Jake Nicholson
Louis Heathcote
Wang ZePeng
Yang Song
Filipe Cardoso
Ben Jones
Hossein Vafaei Ayouri
Danny Brindle
Gareth Green
Yijun Feng
Alex Taubman
Adam King
Adam Bobat
Joshua Baddeley
Christopher Melling
Joe Roberts
Ross Higgins
Ricky Norris
Li Yan
Chen Zhe
Mitchell Mann
Zhang Anda
Joseph Rhone
Michael Tomlinson
Jeff Cundy
Thomas Barton
Sanderson Lam
James Burrett
Duane Jones
Richard Remelie
Matthew Glasby
Michael Georgiou
Ben Fortey
Wayne Townsend
Adam Wicheard
Ryan Causton
Ian Glover
Kashif Khan
Lucky Vatnani
Joe Steele
John Sutton
Fang XiongMan
Kacper Filipiak
Darryl Hill
Jason Weston
Shane Castle
Andreas Ploner
Reanne Evans
Hans Blanckaert
Martin McCrudden
Gary Thomson
Eden Sharav
Saqib Nasir
Sachin Plaha
Shachar Ruberg
John Parkin
Leo Fernandez
Kishan Hirani
George Pragnall
Rahul Sachdev
Nick Jennings
Jason Devaney
Zak Surety
Alejandro Pagulayan
Jamie Rhys Clarke
Lewis Frampton
Sydney Wilson
Adam Stefanow
John Beesley
James Silverwood
Simon Bevz
Jamie Barrett
Christopher Keogan
Phil Barnes
Terry Challenger
Jimmy Carney
Matthew Day
Andy Marriott
Matt Lippett
Mike Hallett
Ashley Carty
Leigh Davies
Robert Carlisle
William Lemons
Lee Walker
Keith Keldie
Peter Devlin
Jake Keen
Ben Harrison
Nick Skinner
Thomas Dowling
Craig Barber
Mark Vincent
Martin Ball
Billy Brown
Brian Cini
Dylan Mitchell
Henry Roper
Zack Richardson
Charon Parker
Ross Vallance
Rhys Clark
Damian Wilks
Callum Lloyd
Mark Owens
Charlie Walters
Justin Astley
Corey Deuel
Andrew Rogers
Shokat Ali
Hassan Vaizie
Hasan Khan
Anthony Harris
Callum Downing
Richard Somauroo

Former Pros Shokat Ali who never reached the crucible the nearest he got was loosing 10-9 to John Parrot in 2002 last 48 and Leo Fernandez who reached the crucible in 1999 losing to Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last 32 by 10 - 3 and on route to the crucible he beat a young Neil Robertson 10-5.

also entering Q school is former top 16 player and Eurosport and Sky Commentator Mike Hallett

Even without the players dropping off the Tour who are likely to enter this its a deep field, so there's going to be plenty of action to see who gets onto (or back onto) the Pro Tour.

Just to mention one (probably) incorrect name, unless a major coincidence the player World Snooker list as 'Yang Song' is the same player that was in APTC4 with the name the other way around - Sòng Yáng (Chinese characters 宋扬)

138 players by my calculation the most ever for a q school

kolompar wrote:138 players by my calculation the most ever for a q school

With more to add once more of the Pros dropping off are added!

Could be the lower entrance fee has played a part?

I'm guessing 'Yijun Feng' is another name the wrong way round. He's UK based I think, not sure whether British of Chinese origin or a UK-based Chinese player - anyone know?

Northern Ireland's Raymond Fry added to Q School, has been practicing with Mark Allen.

Chinese player Zhào Xīntóng has decided to try to get on Tour via the World Under 21 Championship instead, not sure whether he can make it to the second Q School or not if he fails in that, as I'm not sure when the 2nd Q School starts.

What would the format be, last 256 (maybe only about 12 games in this section though) matches and straight knockout I guess?

So players will have to win 7 (6 with bye) matches to get on the tour to get to semi final stage and a tour card.

Guess the problem with the high amount of entries is that there will be awful lot of byes in the last 256 stage (prob just called round 1 as there wont be 256 players). So the order of merit for top-up places may be a bit segued.

Wildey wrote:Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has entered Q School which is surprising considering how little he played during his 2 year tour card

He's decided to go for the World Under 21 route.

Would love to know if he'd be able to play in that and also make Event 2 of Q School.

Perhaps there'll be an outbreak of logic and they'll deliberately start Event 2 after the day of the World Under 21 final ...

QSchool dates now been changed to May 10th-21st, IBSF World U21 Championship 10th-18th. Unless players get knocked out early, they wont be able to make QSchool event 2.

Draws are out.

Event 1
Event 2
Format

interesting to note the name of Canadian pool maestro Alex Pagulayan is playing in Q School this year.

2 years ago he refused a nomination to take his place on the Tour and therefore Floyd Ziegler got his place

Corey Deuel as well, US pool player who's featured in many Mosconi Cups