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The snooker major tournaments, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the most prestigious tournaments in snooker.. Traditionally, the majors consisted of the three Triple Crown tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held ...
This is a list of professional and alternative format snooker tournaments. Professional snooker tournaments can take the form of ranking tournaments—which are open to players on the main tour and award ranking points based on a player's performance—and non-ranking tournaments. A non-ranking tournament may take the form of an invitational ...
The 2024–25 Q Tour is a series of snooker tournaments to take place during the 2024–25 snooker season.The Q Tour is the second-tier tour, run by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, for players not on the main World Snooker Tour.
BBC Sport will continue to broadcast snooker's three most prestigious tournaments - the World Championship, UK Championship and the Masters - until 2032. The World Snooker Tour (WST) and the BBC ...
The 2025 Championship League Invitational (officially the 2025 BetVictor Championship League Invitational for sponsorship reasons) is a professional non‑ranking snooker tournament, which is taking place from 3 January 2025 to 5 February 2025 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England.
The World Snooker Tour in the 2024–25 season initially consisted of 127 professional players, but dropped to 126 after Michael White had his WPBSA membership revoked. The tour includes the top 64 players from the prize money rankings after the 2024 World Championship and 31 players who earned a two-year card the previous year.
In January 2024, WST announced a new non-ranking tournament called the World Masters of Snooker, scheduled to take place from 4 to 6 March 2024 at the Boulevard Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [4] It is the first professional snooker tournament to be held in Saudi Arabia, amid the country's growing investment in various sports. [5]
Blue-filled: nations that have hosted a snooker ranking tournament. This is a chronological list of snooker ranking tournaments. Ranking tournaments are those that are used for the official system of ranking professional snooker players which is used to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour.