Players Tour Championship Event 3

[snoopy2608]

Pre qualifying draw now on WSA site - I assume from this somewhere between 80-86 pros have entered (think it was 81 for event 2)

[snoopy2608]

from a quick analysis 96 players through to main event of which upto 11 could be non-pro tour players who are seeded.

therefore the other 85 are presumably on the main tour. One main tour James Wattana has to pre-qualify.

therefore 86 main tour players in event - so 10 not entered (one of which must be Higgins, I wonder who the other 9 are?)

[ltfc39]

According to my calculations, 165 players have entered this event.

[Mr P]

Does anyone care to post a list of entries?

[snoopy2608]

only prequalifying players listed so far so all entries not known

[goldengirl]

Are they holding the prequalifyers 2 weeks before Event 3 ? Is that right?

[Mr P]

They are holding them next week because they Snooker Academy has something on when they are supposed to be played.

[MattWilson]

Yeah cheers for that World Snooker... put the dates out for PTC 3 & 4 and then change the qualifying dates to a completely different weekend. Had to cancel my entry as a result, was not a happy chappy.

MW

[ltfc39]

Yeah cheers for that World Snooker... put the dates out for PTC 3 & 4 and then change the qualifying dates to a completely different weekend. Had to cancel my entry as a result, was not a happy chappy.

MW

I assume you didn't get your money back?

It was a pretty silly thing from World Snooker to be honest. They scheduled the Shanghai qualifiers along with all of the PTCs back in the provisional schedule. It was obvious there was going to be a clash!

Best of luck anyway with the PTCs when you do enter them again.

[Mr P]

Yeah cheers for that World Snooker... put the dates out for PTC 3 & 4 and then change the qualifying dates to a completely different weekend. Had to cancel my entry as a result, was not a happy chappy.

MW

Bad luck with that mate, do you not even get your money back?

[MattWilson]

Bloody damn right I got my money back! I entered on the Friday, found out on the Saturday about the date change for qualifiers, and phoned up Monday (the closing date) to cancel. I would also have expected a full refund if I'd cancelled after the closing date, they can't move the goalposts and not have flexibility with entries.

It was a pretty bad mistake to make - snooker players (amateur) have other commitments, lives and people to think about and it's hard enough working 40-hour weeks and trying to fit in events like these without them moving dates around at the last minute. As you can tell, I'm not happy about it but what can you do...

I'll be in PTC 5 and 6 hopefully, and (maybe) the Q-School in May.

MW

[snoopy2608]

actually 88 main tour pros have entered event 3.

the 8 who haven't entered are:

Higgins, O'Sullivan, Carter, Ding, Allen, Hendry, Fu and Burnett.

to qualify for the final stages players must participate in at least 3 UK events and 3 Euro events. This means that for Higgins, Ding, Allen and Hendry if they don't enter event 4 (which Higgins won't be able to) they are not eligible to play in the finals event.

If you compare this with darts equivalent Phil Taylor plays enough events to qualify for the finals, van Barneveld hardly plays any and most of the other top players turn up most weekends........

however 88 is I think very impressive - (Ding you better enter event 4 - does anyone know if he will?)

[visionaire]

Strange that Ding and Hendry aren't bothered...

[Mr P]

I think they will enter event 4. Nice to see Selby in again, I'm sure he can make inroads.

[goldengirl]

I've just seen the draw and Jamie has got Peter Ebdon (both from Rushden Snooker Centre, although not so much lately) and Shaun had Peter last event (again hailing from RSC.). Peter was a big inspiration to Jamie - hopefully it will be a good match!!