Strachan Challenge 1993 - Event 3

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Strachan Challenge 1992 - Event 3
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Tournament type: Minor ranking tournament
Attendees: 350
Venue: Jimmy White Snooker Lodge,
Aldershot , England
Opening: February 1, 1993
Endgame: February 6, 1993

Winner: MaltaMalta Tony Drago
Finalist: IrelandIreland Ken Doherty
Highest Break: 140 ( Karl Broughton ) EnglandEngland
Event 2
 
1994

The third event of the Strachan Challenge 1992/93 was a snooker tournament of the 1992/93 season , which was held from February 1 to 6, 1993. It was the last of a series of three minor ranking tournaments that was held for the first time this season. At the tournaments there were points for the world rankings , but only barely a tenth of what was awarded at the established tournaments. For the second time after Event 1, the venue was Jimmy White's Snooker Club in Aldershot, south of London.

Event 2 winner Troy Shaw lost his opening match to Event 1 winner Joe Swail . With Tony Drago from Malta and Ken Doherty from Ireland, however, two aspiring players who had already moved up into the top 32 reached the final. Doherty had just become Irish professional champions and won the Welsh Open just a week earlier . But even though Drago had never made it past the quarter-finals of a ranking tournament before, he won the final 9-7. It was one of two titles in his professional career and the only one that played for ranking points.

The attempt with the minor ranking tournaments was discontinued after only one season. The Strachan Challenge continued for another year, with no ranking points and only two events. In the 2010s, the idea of ​​the reduced ranking tournaments with the Players Tour Championship was successfully taken up again.

Prize money / world ranking points

Prize money and points for the world rankings were the same in all three events of the Challenge. In the full ranked tournaments, the prize pool was around £ 150,000 and the winner's score was 3600.

placement Prize money Points a
winner £ 3,000 330
finalist £ 2,200 300
Semi-finalist £ 1,400 270
Quarter finalist 850 pounds 240
Round of 16 £ 500 210
Last 32 £ 200 180
Last 64 100 pounds 150
Last 128 50 pounds 120
Rounds 1-4 - 15-90
Highest break 250 pounds
All in all £ 24,800
a Seeded players who lost their first game only received 50% of the points.

Main tournament

As in the previous event, there were 40 cancellations, so that only 310 of the 350 registered players took part in the 6 qualifying rounds. The 32 participants of the main tournament were played in them. After all, in contrast to Event 2, Neal Foulds was again represented by a top 8 player. The best players did not join the game until the last 128 round. The popular game mode for a top 32 tournament - best of 9 up to the quarter-finals, best of 11 in the semifinals and the best of 17 final - was also used here as in the other two events.

  Round 1
best of 9 frames
Round of 16
best of 9 frames
Quarterfinals
Best of 9 Frames
Semi-final
best of 11 frames
Final
Best of 17 frames
                                     
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 5              
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jason Prince 2  
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 5
   EnglandEngland Jonathan Birch 2  
 EnglandEngland Jonathan Birch 5
 EnglandEngland Andy Hicks 4th  
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 5
   EnglandEngland Tony Meo 4th  
 EnglandEngland Tony Meo 5    
 EnglandEngland Nigel Bond 1  
 EnglandEngland Tony Meo 5
   EnglandEngland Mark Johnston-Allen 2  
 EnglandEngland Mark Johnston-Allen 5
 EnglandEngland Karl Broughton 2  
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 6th
   ScotlandScotland Billy Snaddon 4th  
 ScotlandScotland Billy Snaddon 5
 EnglandEngland Jason Pegram 1  
 ScotlandScotland Billy Snaddon 5
   EnglandEngland Martin Clark 3  
 EnglandEngland Martin Clark 5
 EnglandEngland Jamie Bodle 0  
 ScotlandScotland Billy Snaddon 5
   EnglandEngland Mick Price 2  
 EnglandEngland Mick Price 5    
 EnglandEngland Mike Hallett 4th  
 EnglandEngland Mick Price 5
   WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 4th  
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Newbury 5
 EnglandEngland David Blakey 2  
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 9
   IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 7th
 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 5
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Neil Tomkins 3  
 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 5
   WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 4th  
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Darren Morgan 5
 AustraliaAustralia Eddie Charlton 4th  
 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 5
   EnglandEngland Nick Marsh 1  
 EnglandEngland Nick Marsh 5    
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Wayne Jones 4th  
 EnglandEngland Nick Marsh 5
   EnglandEngland Nick Terry 1  
 EnglandEngland Nick Terry 5
 IrelandIreland Fergal O'Brien 1  
 IrelandIreland Ken Doherty 6th
   EnglandEngland Karl Payne 1  
 EnglandEngland Karl Payne 5
 EnglandEngland Dean Reynolds 0  
 EnglandEngland Karl Payne 5
   EnglandEngland Nick Dyson 1  
 EnglandEngland Nick Dyson 5
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Doug Mountjoy 4th  
 EnglandEngland Karl Payne 5
   CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux 2  
 CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux 5    
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Paul Davies 1  
 CanadaCanada Alain Robidoux 5
   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 4th  
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Joe Swail 5
 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Anthony Davies 4th  

Century breaks

The highest break of the tournament was made by Karl Broughton . Twice, in the last qualifying round and in the first main round, he scored 140 points in a row.

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