2019–20 Challenge Tour
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 31 August 2019 – 29 March 2019 |
| Tournaments | 10 |
The Challenge Tour 2019/2020 will be a series of snooker tournaments that take place during the 2019/2020 season. It is a second-tier tour for players not on the main World Snooker Tour.[1] The top player in the final rankings will earn a two-year card to the World Snooker Tour for 2020/2021. The next eight players in the rankings will then go into a play-off event, with the winner of that event to receive the second Tour Card.[2]
Format
Each event had a maximum field of 64. The leading 56 players in the 2019 Q School Order of Merit, excluding the 16 who qualified for the main tour, as well as eight wildcards are eligible to play. If there are less than 64 entries, players outside the top-64 in the Q School Order of Merit could enter.[1]
All matches are over five frames. The winner of each event receives prize money of £2,000 out of a total of £10,000. The runner-up receives £1,000, semi-finalists £700, quarter-finalists £500, last-16 losers £200 and last-32 losers £125.[3]
Schedule
| Date | Country | Tournament | Venue | City | Field | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Aug | 1 Sep |  GER
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Event 1 | Ballroom Nürnberg | Nuremberg | |||||
| 21 Sep | 22 Sep |  ENG
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Event 2 | The Crucible Sports & Social Club | Newbury | |||||
| 5 Oct | 6 Oct | ENG
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Event 3 | Northern Snooker Centre | Leeds | |||||
| 19 Oct | 20 Oct | Event 4 | ||||||||
| 2 Nov | 3 Nov | Event 5 | ||||||||
| 16 Nov | 17 Nov | Event 6 | ||||||||
| 14 Dec | 15 Dec | Event 7 | ||||||||
| 18 Jan | 19 Jan | Event 8 | ||||||||
| 15 Feb | 16 Feb | Event 9 | ||||||||
| 29 Feb | 1 Mar | Event 10 | ||||||||
| 28 Mar | 29 Mar | Playoffs | 8 | |||||||
Source: [4]
Eligible players
The leading 56 players in the 2019 Q School Order of Merit, excluding the 16 who qualified for the main tour, are automatically eligible to play:[1][5]
References
- ^ a b c "Challenge Tour 2019/20". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Revision". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Prize Money". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Challenge Tour Calendar". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Q School Order of Merit". World Snooker. Retrieved 28 August 2019.