Q School (snooker)
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The Q School is an amateur snooker competition which serves as the qualification school for the World Snooker Tour.
Overview
Q School is established in 2011 as an attempt to streamline the qualification process and is held annually before the start of the professional season, where amateurs and ex-professionals who dropped out of the top 64 in world rankings in previous seasons can compete for a two-year tour card to play on the Main Tour. It replaced the amateur tournament International Open Series, the former second-tier snooker series organised by the English Association of Snooker and Billiards (EASB).
In 2022, a Q School branch in Bangkok was established for entrants from the Asia-Oceania region. 2 qualifying places were awarded to the winners whilst discontinuing qualification through Order of Merit in Q School Europe.
Players pay a fixed entry fee to enter the play-off events, and there is no prize money. Winners of quarter-finals will be joining the World Snooker Main Tour, whilst the top 32 players of Q School Europe along with other junior players and Asia-Oceania qualifiers will be qualified for the second-tier WPBSA Q Tour.
Qualifiers
For each event, the players who qualified for the World Snooker Tour are listed.
Asia-Oceania Q School
| Year | Location | Entries | Event | End date | Qualifier 1 | Qualifier 2 | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bangkok | 70 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 5 June | Pakistan Muhammad Asif | Thailand Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon Pakistan Asjad Iqbal | |
| Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 11 June | Thailand Dechawat Poomjaeng | India Himanshu Jain | ||||
| 2023 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 6 June | Malaysia Thor Chuan Leong | Thailand Manasawin Phetmalaikul | |
| Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 12 June | India Ishpreet Singh Chadha | China He Guoqiang | ||||
| 2024 | Bangkok | 99 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 27 May | Malaysia Lim Kok Leong | Thailand Sunny Akani | |
| Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 2 June | Pakistan Haris Tahir | India Kreishh Gurbaxani | ||||
| 2025 | Bangkok | 86 | Asia & Oceania Event 1 | 18 May | Thailand Chatchapong Nasa | China Liu Wenwei | |
| Asia & Oceania Event 2 | 24 May | China Xu Yichen | China Zhao Hanyang |
Statistics
- Craig Steadman and Alexander Ursenbacher have qualified from Q School on a record 4 occasions. Paul Davison, Fraser Patrick, Duane Jones and Ian Burns have qualified through the event on three occasions.
- Michael Georgiou, Jordan Brown, David Gilbert, Fan Zhengyi, Fergal O'Brien and Zhao Xintong are the six Q-School qualifiers to win a ranking event. Zhao is the only one to have won multiple ranking events. O'Brien, Brown and Gilbert had been professionals before qualifying through Q School.
- The youngest qualifier through Q School was Lei Peifan at 15, while Peter Lines was the oldest, qualifying at 51 in 2021.