The Snooker Shoot Out will get underway on Wednesday in Leicester, with the distinctive occasion offering a really completely different ambiance to the remainder of the calendar.
Each match within the event is only one body, with a ten minute most and performed underneath a shot clock.
The followers in Leicester are welcome to make loads of noise and so they actually will achieve this, particularly within the Friday and Saturday night periods.
Rating factors are on the road and there may be £50,000 to the winner so it may be a career-changing occasion for gamers, because it was for Chris Wakelin a few years in the past, who now finds himself on the earth’s prime 16 and heading to the Masters subsequent month.
Mark Allen received it final 12 months, changing into the primary prime 16 participant to take action, with lower-ranked gamers tending to seize the chance for a uncommon piece of silverware.
Learn how to watch the Snooker Shoot Out
The occasion is being proven on Eurosport and Discovery+ within the UK.
Snooker Shoot Out draw and schedule
Wednesday 4 December
1pm
Mark Allen vs Ross MuirHossein Vafaei vs Julien LeclercqJiang Jun vs Antoni KowalskiLyu Haotian vs Tian PengfeiRobert Milkins vs Joe ShannonLouis Heathcote vs Ahmed Aly ElsayedJonas Luz vs Paul DeavilleDavid Gilbert vs David Grace
Matthew Selt vs Ryan DayDean Younger vs Florian NuessleFan Zhengyi vs Wang YuchenDaniel Boyes vs Wu YizeAnthony McGill vs Sophie NixJoel Connolly vs Aaron HillJoe Perry vs Gong ChenzhiReanne Evans vs Gary Wilson
7pm
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Jimmy WhiteZhou Yuelong vs Andrew PagettPang Junxu vs Zak SuretyHaris Tahir vs David LilleyJordan Brown vs Si JiahuiCheung Ka Wai vs Andrew HigginsonHuang Jiahao vs Hammad MiahXiao Guodong vs Anthony Hamilton
Matthew Stevens vs Yuan SijunDaniel Womersley vs Lengthy ZehuangChris Totten vs Duane JonesIan Burns vs Ma HailongJoe O’Connor vs Sanderson LamHaydon Pinhey vs Mitchell MannNoppon Saengkham vs Liu HongyuAshley Carty vs Kayden Brierley
Thursday 5 December
1pm
Mark Selby vs Baipat SiripapornStan Moody vs Riley PowellLewis Ullah vs Steven WardropperJackson Web page vs Manasawin PhetmalaikulMink Nutcharut vs Liam GrahamZhang Anda vs Hatem YassenSion Stuart vs Martin O’DonnellAlfie Burden vs Ben Woollaston
Graeme Dott vs Ben MertensBai Yulu vs Jamie ClarkeVladislav Gradinari vs Daniel WellsTom Ford vs Xing ZihaoRobbie Williams vs Michael HoltBulcsu Revesz vs Farakh AjaibJimmy Robertson vs Liam PullenSean O’Sullivan vs Shaun Murphy
7pm
Neil Robertson vs Simon BlackwellOliver Strains vs Allan TaylorStuart Carrington vs Dylan EmeryMark Davis vs Liam DaviesIulian Boiko vs Jack LisowskiIshpreet Singh Chadha vs Amir SarkhoshMark Joyce vs Joshua ThomandGerard Greene vs Robbie McGuigan
He Guoqiang vs Stuart BinghamJamie Jones vs Rory ThorAnton Kazakov vs Artemijs ZizinsKreishh Gurbaxani vs Lei PeifanMostafa Dorgham vs Elliot SlessorAlexander Ursenbacher vs Xu SiJoshua Cooper vs Jak JonesAli Carter vs Chris Wakelin
Snooker Shoot Out Guidelines
Timing
Every match is a most of 10 minutes.
For the primary 5 minutes of the match there’s a 15 second shot clock. That is reduce to 10 seconds after 5 minutes.
Failure to start a stroke inside the time ends in a foul.
Fouls
All fouls outcome within the cue-ball in hand, so it may be positioned wherever on the desk.
If at the least one ball doesn’t strike a cushion or enter a pocket after a stroke then it’s a foul.
Different guidelines
Gamers lag to determine who breaks.
A tied body is determined by a sudden demise blue ball shootout.
Full Shoot Out guidelines out there right here.
Snooker Shoot Out prize cash
Winner: £50,000Runner-up: £20,000Semi-final: £8,000Quarter-final: £4,000Last 16: £2,000Last 32: £1,000Last 64: £500Last 128: £250Highest break: £5,000
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