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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 World Snooker Tour (WST) is the main professional snooker tour, consisting of about 128 players competing on a circuit of up to 28 tournaments each season. [1] The World Snooker Tour is administered by World Snooker Ltd, the commercial arm of professional snooker, which introduced the World Snooker Tour name, logo, and revised website as ...
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 ...
The Home Nations Series is a snooker tournament series in the four home nations of the United Kingdom. [1] It began in the 2016–17 snooker season , combining two existing tournaments, the Scottish Open and Welsh Open , with two newly created tournaments, the English Open and Northern Ireland Open .
Snooker 19 is a 2019 sports video game developed by Lab42 and published by Ripstone Games, based on the cue sport snooker. [1] The game was released on 17 April 2019 for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , with the Nintendo Switch version coming out on 23 August 2019.
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.
The Triple Crown in the sport of snooker is the achievement of winning three specific events: the UK Championship, the Masters, and the World Snooker Championship. [1] First introduced in 1927, the World Snooker Championship reverted to being played as a knockout tournament in 1969, with all subsequent competition considered as the "modern era ...
This is the first game in the series with the name "World Snooker Championship". The game was published by Sega instead of Codemasters. The game is also the first released on a handheld console, as the World Snooker Challenge 2005 on the PlayStation Portable. The game features a playable "League of Champions" mode, where famous past snooker ...