EBSA Order of Merit 2014: The Halfway Update

matt2745 Amateur, European Tour

Davison

Three events down, three to go and while I recently provided an update as to how the race for tour places is building as far as the main ranking lists are concerned, this morning I turn to the leading amateurs, who are also battling for places on the newly revised EBSA Order of Merit.

From this list there will be 16 qualifiers for the season-ending EBSA play-offs, with two main tour places ultimately up for grabs.

Click below to see how the list looks at the halfway stage…

  • Click here to view my previous post summarising how the EBSA Order of Merit will operate this season
  • Click here to view the official explanation at World Snooker

What is it?

As detailed within the player’s pack for each of the six European Tour events staged this season:

“EBSA have been allocated 2 two year Main Tour places for the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 seasons.

A separate EBSA Order of Merit for amateur players will be compiled from points earned across the six Euro Tour; the full details may be found on our website.

The Top 16 players on the EBSA Order of Merit at the end of the six Euro Tour events will qualify for the end of season EBSA Play Offs where they will compete for the 2 tour places.

For the avoidance of doubt, there will be no separate EBSA event held at the Euro Tour events.”

How does it Work?

So how will this Order of Merit be compiled? As those of you who click the list will have seen, World Snooker have explained the system as follows:

  • World Snooker will produce an Order of Merit to be compiled of points from all 6 European Tour Events
  • 10 Points will be allocated for each match won in relation to both matches in pre-qualifying stages and Main Event stages.
  • Where a Player is seeded through to a later round of qualifying and they win their first ‘seeded match’ they will receive not only the 10 points for that match but also the 10 points per round for each of the rounds that they were seeded through.
  • Where a Player is seeded through to a later round of qualifying, and they lose their first ‘seeded match’ they will be allocated 0 points for that match and 0 points for the round(s) that they were seeded through.

For example – looking at the list below you can see that Mitchell Travis earned 40 points at the ET3 event. There however, he was seeded through the first round, before winning three matches and losing to Jimmy Robertson in his fourth. He therefore gains 10 points for each victory, in addition to 10 points for the round that he was seeded through, giving him the 40.

Current Standings

While you may need to read that more than once in order for it to sink in, perhaps the easiest way to illustrate its effects is to take a look at how the Order of Merit is now shaping up after three out of the six events, its halfway stage.

Although there are some 179 players currently on the list, for the time being I have just included the 83 players who have so far earned points…

 

# NAME ET1 ET2 ET3 ET4 ET5 ET6 Total
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1 Mitchell Travis
 20 50 40 0 0 0 110
2 Paul Davison
 40 40 30 0 0 0 110
3 Adam Duffy
 20 50 30 0 0 0 100
4 Eden Sharav
 20 30 30 0 0 0 80
5 Alex Taubman
 10 40 30 0 0 0 80
6 Sanderson Lam
 20 30 30 0 0 0 80
7 Thomas Dowling
 20 30 30 0 0 0 80
8 Martin O’Donnell
 30 30 20 0 0 0 80
9 Sean O’Sullivan
 60 0 20 0 0 0 80
10 Josh Boileau
 20 20 30 0 0 0 70
11 Michael Williams
 20 20 30 0 0 0 70
12 Gareth Allen
 0 30 30 0 0 0 60
13 Jeff Cundy
 0 30 30 0 0 0 60
14 Christopher Keogan
 10 20 30 0 0 0 60
15 Ben Jones
 10 20 30 0 0 0 60
16 Reanne Evans
 20 20 20 0 0 0 60
17 Ryan Causton
 20 20 20 0 0 0 60
18 Nico Elton
 20 – 30 0 0 0 50
19 Ashley Carty
 0 20 30 0 0 0 50
20 Luke Garland
 – 30 20 0 0 0 50
21 Michael Collumb
 0 30 20 0 0 0 50
22 Jamie Rhys Clarke
 10 40 0 0 0 0 50
23 Kishan Hirani
 20 30 0 0 0 0 50
24 William Lemons
 20 30 0 0 0 0 50
25 Andreas Ploner
 30 20 0 0 0 0 50
26 Tomasz Skalski
 0 10 30 0 0 0 40
27 Ashley Hugill
 10 0 30 0 0 0 40
28 Sam Harvey
 10 0 30 0 0 0 40
29 Dylan Craig 0 20 20 0 0 0 40
30 Marc J Davis
 0 20 20 0 0 0 40
31 Joe O’Connor
 0 20 20 0 0 0 40
32 Zack Richardson
 0 20 20 0 0 0 40
33 Richard Beckham
 20 – 20 0 0 0 40
34 Brian Cini
 20 0 20 0 0 0 40
35 Duane Jones
 20 20 – 0 0 0 40
36 John Sutton
 30 10 0 0 0 0 40
37 Grzegorz Biernadski
 – – 30 0 0 0 30
38 Brandon Sargeant
 – – 30 0 0 0 30
39 Matthew Day
 – 0 30 0 0 0 30
40 Kacper Filipiak
 – – 30 0 0 0 30
41 Jeff Jacobs
 0 0 30 0 0 0 30
42 Sydney Wilson
 0 0 30 0 0 0 30
43 Simon Dent
 0 10 20 0 0 0 30
44 Jurian Heusdens
 0 10 20 0 0 0 30
45 Hans Blanckaert
 0 30 0 0 0 0 30
46 Jack Bradford
 0 30 0 0 0 0 30
47 John Parkin
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
48 Joshua Baddeley
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
49 Peter Devlin
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
50 Spasian Spasov
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
51 Conor McCormack
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
52 Stanislav Hadjipopov
 – – 20 0 0 0 20
53 Lukas Kleckers
 – 0 20 0 0 0 20
54 Daniel Schneider
 – 0 20 0 0 0 20
55 Kristof Vermeiren
 0 0 20 0 0 0 20
56 Oliver Brown
 0 0 20 0 0 0 20
57 Anthony Jeffers
 20 – 0 0 0 0 20
58 Andrew Rogers
 20 – 0 0 0 0 20
59 Jake Nicholson
 20 – 0 0 0 0 20
60 Rhys Clark
 20 0 0 0 0 0 20
61 Sergiy Isayenko
 20 – 0 0 0 0 20
62 Billy Brown
 20 0 0 0 0 0 20
63 Andres Petrov
 20 – – 0 0 0 20
64 Luca Kaufmann
 – 20 – 0 0 0 20
65 Martin McCrudden
 20 – – 0 0 0 20
66 Ross Higgins
 0 20 – 0 0 0 20
67 Saqib Nasir
 – 20 – 0 0 0 20
68 Sascha Lippe
 0 20 – 0 0 0 20
69 Bratislav Krustev
 – – 10 0 0 0 10
70 Teodor Chomovski
 – – 10 0 0 0 10
71 Chris Jones
 – 0 10 0 0 0 10
72 Daniel Wells
 – 10 0 0 0 0 10
73 Mark Vincent
 10 – 0 0 0 0 10
74 Joe Steele
 0 10 0 0 0 0 10
75 Kobi Mates
 0 10 0 0 0 0 10
76 Jamie O’Neill
 10 0 – 0 0 0 10
77 Jordan Brown
 – 10 – 0 0 0 10
78 Roman Dietzel
 10 – – 0 0 0 10
79 Stefan Schenk
 – 10 – 0 0 0 10
80 Stephane Ochoiski
 – 10 – 0 0 0 10
81 Tan Wang Chooi
 – 10 – 0 0 0 10
82 Carl Rosenberger
 – 10 – 0 0 0 10
83 Manon Melief
 10 0 – 0 0 0 10
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