As was the case last season, alongside the European Order of Merit will run an EBSA Order of Merit, on which amateurs will be awarded points, with the top 16 after six events qualifying for a play-off event next spring.
Two players from that event will earn two-year tour cards from the start of the 2016/17 season, following in the footsteps of last season’s qualifiers Martin Donnell and Sanderson Lam.
What is it?
As detailed within the player’s pack for each of the six European Tour events staged this season:
“A separate EBSA Order of Merit for amateur players will be compiled from points earned across the 6 Kreativ Dental Clinic European Tour events. The Top 16 players on the EBSA Order of Merit at the end of the 6 events will qualify for the end of season EBSA Play Offs where they will compete for the 2 tour places.”
How does it Work?
As was the case last season, the system will operate 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.
Current Standings
Although there are some 285 players currently on the list, for the time being I have just included the players who have so far earned points…
| # | NAME | ET1 | ET2 | ET3 | ET4 | ET5 | ET6 | Total |
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| 1 | Hammad Miah |
40 | – | 50 | 40 | 20 | 0 | 150 |
| 2 | Ashley Hugill |
20 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 130 |
| 3 | Sam Thistlewhite |
20 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 120 |
| 4 | Richard Beckham |
20 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 110 |
| 5 | Sam Craigie |
– | 30 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 110 |
| 6 | Elliot Slessor |
– | 30 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 |
| 7 | Nico Elton |
0 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 100 |
| 8 | Jamie Rhys Clarke |
20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 90 |
| 9 | Kishan Hirani |
20 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 90 |
| 10 | Phil O’Kane |
20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 90 |
| 11 | Mateusz Baranowski |
0 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 90 |
| 12 | Ashley Carty |
0 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 80 |
| 13 | Adam Duffy |
– | 20 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 80 |
| 14 | Christopher Keogan |
20 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 15 | Tomasz Skalski |
30 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 16 | Kacper Filipiak |
0 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 17 | Thomas Rees |
20 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 18 | Josh Boileau |
– | 20 | 30 | 20 | – | 0 | 70 |
| 19 | Joe O’Connor |
20 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| 20 | Ryan Causton |
10 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| 21 | Alex Borg |
20 | 20 | 30 | 0 | – | 0 | 70 |
| 22 | George Pragnall |
– | – | – | 30 | 30 | 0 | 60 |
| 23 | Brandon Sargeant |
– | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 60 |
| 24 | Oliver Brown |
– | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| 25 | Jake Nicholson |
10 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| 26 | Lukas Kleckers |
30 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 60 |
| 27 | Joe Roberts |
30 | – | 0 | 30 | – | 0 | 60 |
| 28 | Jurian Heusdens |
20 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| 29 | Alexander Ursenbacher |
– | 20 | 30 | 10 | – | 0 | 60 |
| 30 | Michael Williams |
– | 20 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 50 |
| 31 | Alex Taubman |
0 | 30 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 50 |
| 32 | Brendan O’Donoghue |
0 | – | 30 | 20 | – | 0 | 50 |
| 33 | Andreas Ploner |
20 | 0 | 10 | 20 | – | 0 | 50 |
| 34 | Joe Steele |
20 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 35 | Sascha Lippe |
10 | 0 | 40 | – | – | 0 | 50 |
| 36 | Michael Collumb |
0 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 37 | Damian Wilks |
20 | 0 | 30 | 0 | – | 0 | 50 |
| 38 | Ben Jones |
0 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 39 | Brian Cini |
0 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 40 | Julian Mills |
20 | 10 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 50 |
| 41 | Dylan Craig |
– | – | – | – | 40 | 0 | 40 |
| 42 | Zhao Xintong |
– | – | – | – | 40 | 0 | 40 |
| 43 | Daniel Schneider |
– | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 40 |
| 44 | Adam King |
– | 10 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 40 |
| 45 | Felix Frede |
– | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 46 | Robin Otto |
20 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 47 | Joshua Cooper |
– | 30 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 48 | Mohammed Rangzib |
– | – | 40 | – | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 49 | Callum Lloyd |
20 | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 50 | Marc J Davis |
– | 30 | – | 10 | – | 0 | 40 |
| 51 | Marcin Nitschke |
– | – | – | 30 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 52 | Mark Owens |
– | – | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 53 | Simon Lichtenberg |
– | 10 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 54 | Adam Edge |
0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | – | 0 | 30 |
| 55 | Dessie Sheehan |
10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 30 |
| 56 | Ross Higgins |
– | – | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 57 | Alain van der Steen |
– | – | 30 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 58 | Charlie Sweeney |
– | 10 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 59 | Maris Volajs |
10 | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 60 | Charlie Walters |
– | 20 | 10 | 0 | – | 0 | 30 |
| 61 | Michael Heeger |
– | 20 | 10 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 62 | Stephane Ochoiski |
– | 30 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 63 | Patrick Einsle |
– | 30 | – | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 64 | Andres Petrov |
30 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 65 | Jeff Cundy |
30 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 66 | Louis Heathcote |
0 | – | – | – | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 67 | Kevin Chan |
– | 10 | 0 | – | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| 68 | Adam Longley |
– | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 69 | Conor McCormack |
0 | 20 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 70 | Joshua Baddeley |
– | – | 20 | – | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 71 | Saqib Nasir |
10 | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 72 | Lewis Gillen |
– | – | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 73 | Bratislav Krustev |
– | – | – | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 74 | John Parkin |
0 | – | – | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 75 | Peter Devlin |
– | – | – | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 76 | Jeff Jacobs |
0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 77 | Rodion Judin |
20 | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 78 | Robert Czupryniak |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 79 | Dean Sheridan |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 80 | Dennis Deroose |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 81 | Fozan Masood |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 82 | Gary Lees |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 83 | Thomas Hein |
– | 10 | 10 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 84 | Nck Jennings |
– | 10 | 10 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 85 | Thomas Barton |
0 | 20 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 86 | Wan Chooi Tan |
– | 20 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 87 | Zack Richardson |
20 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 88 | Roman Dietzel |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 89 | Sam Harvey |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 90 | Andreas Hartung |
– | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 91 | Anna Prisjaznuka |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 92 | Chris Norbury |
– | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 93 | Dennis Furrer |
– | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 94 | Josh Mulholland |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 95 | Lewis John Calcutt |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 96 | Edward Topham |
– | – | – | – | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 97 | James Dabell |
– | – | – | – | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 98 | Mourad Naitali |
– | – | – | – | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 99 | Stephen Webber |
– | – | – | – | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 100 | Robbie Purdham |
– | 0 | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 101 | Simon Dent |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 102 | Sam Betts |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 103 | Spasian Spasov |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 104 | Teodor Chomovski |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 105 | David Davidkov |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 106 | Nicholas Roberts |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 107 | Nikola Kemilev |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 108 | Chris Jones |
– | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 109 | Patrick Whelan |
0 | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 110 | Phuntsok Jaegers |
– | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 111 | Christopher Harrison |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 112 | Frans Veling |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 113 | Gary Thomson |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 114 | Habib Shalchian |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 115 | James Silverwood |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 116 | Johny Moermans |
– | – | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 117 | Michael Schnabel |
– | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 118 | Miro Popovic |
– | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 119 | Aleksandr Kurgankov |
10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 120 | Marvin Losi |
– | 10 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 121 | Paul Schopf |
– | 10 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 122 | Ralf Gunzel |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 123 | Sascha Breuer |
10 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 124 | Scott Lyons |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 125 | Shachar Ruberg |
10 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 126 | Shannon Dixon |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 127 | Thomas Frank |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 128 | Tony Corrigan |
0 | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 129 | Vilius Schulte-Ebbert |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 130 | Andrew Doherty |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 131 | Anthony Jeffers |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 132 | Gerry Egger |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 133 | Heath Williams |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 134 | Keishin Kamihashi |
10 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 135 | Luca Kaufmann |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 136 | Luke Garland |
– | 10 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
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