EBSA amateur play offs

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The EBSA Amateur Play Offs were a snooker tournament introduced for the 2014/15 season through which European players can qualify for the Snooker Main Tour . They replace the EBSA Qualifying Tour introduced in 2012 . The last edition took place during the 2017/18 season.

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The best players in the EBSA Amateur Order of Merit were qualified for the EBSA Amateur Play Offs. This was calculated from the results of the European Pro-Am tournaments on the Snooker Main Tour . Amateur players who were members of the EBSA received 10 points for each match won in qualification and main round. Players who were seeded in a later round received an additional 10 points for the rounds skipped if they won. In 2015 and 2016 there were six tournaments in the European Tour , on the basis of which 16 play-off starting places were awarded. This sub-series was abolished for the 2016/17 season and only the Paul Hunter Classic and the Gibraltar Open remained as qualifying tournaments. Accordingly, the number of starting places was reduced to 8 in 2017.

Results

EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2014/15

The EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2014/15 took place from April 14th to 16th, 2015 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield , England . The winners of the two semi-finals, the Englishmen Sanderson Lam and Martin O'Donnell received a starting place for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 season of the Snooker Main Tour .

Sean O'Sullivan , who is 6th in the EBSA Amateur Order of Merit , was able to qualify directly for the Main Tour via the Asian Order of Merit, which also entitles him to 17th place to participate in the play-offs.

  Round of 16
best of 7 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 7 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 7 frames
                           
  1 EnglandEngland Adam Duffy 4th        
11 EnglandEngland Christopher Keogan 2  
1 EnglandEngland Adam Duffy 3
  9 IrelandIreland Thomas J. Dowling 4th  
9 IrelandIreland Thomas J. Dowling 4th
12 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Kishan Hirani 0  
9 IrelandIreland Thomas J. Dowling 2
  4th EnglandEngland Sanderson Lam 4th
5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gareth Allen 4th    
13 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ben jones 1  
5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Gareth Allen 3
  4th EnglandEngland Sanderson Lam 4th  
4th EnglandEngland Sanderson Lam 4th
  17th ScotlandScotland Marc J. Davis 3  
  Round of 16
best of 7 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 7 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 7 frames
                           
  3 EnglandEngland Mitchell Travis 1        
14th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 4th  
14th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 4th
  15th EnglandEngland Ashley Carty 2  
7th EnglandEngland Richard Beckham 0
15th EnglandEngland Ashley Carty 4th  
14th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 3
  10 EnglandEngland Martin O'Donnell 4th
8th IrelandIreland Josh Boileau 0    
10 EnglandEngland Martin O'Donnell 4th  
10 EnglandEngland Martin O'Donnell 4th
  2 EnglandEngland Paul Davison 3  
2 EnglandEngland Paul Davison 4th
  16 EnglandEngland Michael Williams 1  

EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2015/16

The 2015/16 EBSA Amateur Play Offs took place on April 13th and 14th, 2016 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield , England . The winners of the two semi-finals, the Englishmen Elliot Slessor and Sam Craigie , received a starting place for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons of the Snooker Main Tour .

The first place in the EBSA Amateur Order of Merit Hammad Miah was already qualified for the Main Tour via the European Order of Merit. This also gave Christopher Keogan, who is in 17th place, a starting place for the play-offs.

  Round of 16
best of 7 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 7 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 7 frames
                           
  14th EnglandEngland Ashley Carty 4th        
17th EnglandEngland Christopher Keogan 3  
14th EnglandEngland Ashley Carty 1
  8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 4th  
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 4th
15th EnglandEngland Nico Elton 1  
8th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Rhys Clarke 3
  4th EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor 4th
10 EnglandEngland Phil O'Kane 4th    
5 EnglandEngland Ryan Causton 1  
10 EnglandEngland Phil O'Kane 3
  4th EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor 4th  
4th EnglandEngland Elliot Slessor 4th
  12 EnglandEngland Sam Thistlewhite 1  
  Round of 16
best of 7 frames 		Quarterfinals
Best of 7 Frames 		Semi-final
best of 7 frames
                           
  3 EnglandEngland Richard Beckham 3        
13 PolandPoland Kacper Filipiak 4th  
13 PolandPoland Kacper Filipiak 1
  6th EnglandEngland Sam Craigie 4th  
6th EnglandEngland Sam Craigie 4th
16 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Thomas Rees 2  
6th EnglandEngland Sam Craigie 4th
  7th EnglandEngland Adam Duffy 3
7th EnglandEngland Adam Duffy 4th    
11 PolandPoland Mateusz Baranowski 2  
7th EnglandEngland Adam Duffy 4th
  2 EnglandEngland Ashley Hugill 1  
2 EnglandEngland Ashley Hugill 4th
  9 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Kishan Hirani 2  

EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2016/17

The EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2016/17 took place on April 12th 2017 at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield , England . The two winners of the 2nd round, the Northern Irishman Gerard Greene and the Englishman Peter Lines , received a starting place for the seasons 2017/18 and 2018/19 of the Snooker Main Tour .

  1st round
best of 7 frames 		2nd round
best of 7 frames
             
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene 4th      
 EnglandEngland Ian Glover 2  
   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Gerard Greene 4th
   EnglandEngland Steven Hallworth 1
 EnglandEngland Steven Hallworth 4th  
 EnglandEngland George Pragnall 2  
  1st round
best of 7 frames 		2nd round
best of 7 frames
             
 EnglandEngland Peter Lines 4th      
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Ben jones 2  
   EnglandEngland Peter Lines 4th
   EnglandEngland Zack Richardson 0
 EnglandEngland Zack Richardson 4th  
 EnglandEngland Brandon Sargeant 3  

EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2017/18

The EBSA Amateur Play Offs 2017/18 will take place on April 18, 2018 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield , England, parallel to the World Cup qualification. The winners of the two groups, Jamie Clarke from Welsh and Joe O'Connor from England , will receive a starting place for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons of the Snooker Main Tour .

  1st round
best of 7 frames 		2nd round
best of 7 frames
                 
1 EnglandEngland Jamie Cope 2    
8th EnglandEngland George Pragnall 4th  
8th EnglandEngland George Pragnall 3
  5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Clarke 4th
4th EnglandEngland Andy Hicks 2
5 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Jamie Clarke 4th  
  1st round
best of 7 frames 		2nd round
best of 7 frames
                 
3 EnglandEngland Brandon Sargeant 1    
6th EnglandEngland Joe O'Connor 4th  
6th EnglandEngland Joe O'Connor 4th
  2 EnglandEngland Oliver Brown 0
2 EnglandEngland Oliver Brown 4th
7th EnglandEngland Andy Symons 1  

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amateur Order of Merit. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , July 13, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs (2015). Snooker.org, accessed June 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 2015 EBSA Amateur Play Offs. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed April 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ EBSA Amateur Order of Merit. (PDF; 71 kB) After Event 6. (No longer available online.) In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association , February 28, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ http://origin-www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/ae/c8/0,,13165~182446,00.pdf (link not available)
  6. ↑ Thomas Hein : Two main tour tickets for two years will be awarded on April 13-14, 2016 in Sheffield. (No longer available online.) In: snookermania.de. April 13, 2016, archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs (2016). Snooker.org, accessed April 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 2016 EBSA Amateur Play Offs. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed April 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ EBSA Amateur Order of Merit. (PDF; 249 kB) After Event 6. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , February 28, 2016, accessed April 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ EBSA Qualifying Tour Play-Offs (2017). Snooker.org, accessed April 12, 2017 .
  11. ↑ EBSA Play-Off (2018). Snooker.org, accessed April 10, 2018 .