Following the ET5 event in Lisbon this weekend, there will be just one more European Tour event to be played this season and therefore one more chance for the amateurs to gain a top 16 place in this season’s EBSA Amateur Order of Merit.
Click below to view to updated standings, as well as a reminder of how the Order of Merit will operate this season…
- 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 five out of the six events.
Although there are some 230 players currently on the list, for the time being I have just included the 98 players who have so far earned points…
| # | NAME | ET1 | ET2 | ET3 | ET4 | ET5 | ET6 | Total |
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| 1 | Adam Duffy |
20 | 50 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 140 |
| 2 | Paul Davison |
40 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 140 |
| 3 | Mitchell Travis |
20 | 50 | 40 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 130 |
| 4 | Sean O’Sullivan |
60 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 110 |
| 5 | Sanderson Lam |
20 | 30 | 30 | – | 20 | 0 | 100 |
| 6 | Martin O’Donnell |
30 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 100 |
| 7 | Eden Sharav |
20 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 8 | Jamie Rhys Clarke |
10 | 40 | 0 | – | 40 | 0 | 90 |
| 9 | Zack Richardson |
0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 90 |
| 10 | Richard Beckham |
20 | – | 20 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 90 |
| 11 | Gareth Allen |
0 | 30 | 30 | – | 30 | 0 | 90 |
| 12 | Ashley Carty |
0 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 90 |
| 13 | Luke Garland |
– | 30 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 90 |
| 14 | Josh Boileau |
20 | 20 | 30 | – | 20 | 0 | 90 |
| 15 | Michael Williams |
20 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 90 |
| 16 | Alex Taubman |
10 | 40 | 30 | 10 | – | 0 | 90 |
| 17 | Thomas Dowling |
20 | 30 | 30 | 10 | – | 0 | 90 |
| 18 | Christopher Keogan |
10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 80 |
| 19 | Kishan Hirani |
20 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 80 |
| 20 | Jeff Cundy |
0 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 21 | Ben Jones |
10 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 22 | Sydney Wilson |
0 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 23 | Joe O’Connor |
0 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 24 | Nico Elton |
20 | – | 30 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 70 |
| 25 | Ryan Causton |
20 | 20 | 20 | – | 10 | 0 | 70 |
| 26 | Andreas Ploner |
30 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| 27 | Tomasz Skalski |
0 | 10 | 30 | – | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| 28 | Dylan Craig | 0 | 20 | 20 | – | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| 29 | Matthew Day |
– | 0 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 60 |
| 30 | Brian Cini |
20 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 60 |
| 31 | Kacper Filipiak |
– | – | 30 | 30 | – | 0 | 60 |
| 32 | Marc J Davis |
0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| 33 | Reanne Evans |
20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| 34 | Brandon Sargeant |
– | – | 30 | 20 | – | 0 | 50 |
| 35 | Jack Bradford |
0 | 30 | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 50 |
| 36 | Michael Collumb |
0 | 30 | 20 | – | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 37 | William Lemons |
20 | 30 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| 38 | Joe Steele |
0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 40 |
| 39 | Lukas Kleckers |
– | 0 | 20 | – | 20 | 0 | 40 |
| 40 | Oliver Brown |
0 | 0 | 20 | – | 20 | 0 | 40 |
| 41 | Billy Brown |
20 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 40 |
| 42 | Jake Nicholson |
20 | – | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 40 |
| 43 | Jeff Jacobs |
0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 40 |
| 44 | Jurian Heusdens |
0 | 10 | 20 | – | 10 | 0 | 40 |
| 45 | Joshua Baddeley |
– | – | 20 | 20 | – | 0 | 40 |
| 46 | Ross Higgins |
0 | 20 | – | 20 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 47 | Ashley Hugill |
10 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| 48 | Sam Harvey |
10 | 0 | 30 | – | – | 0 | 40 |
| 49 | Duane Jones |
20 | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 40 |
| 50 | John Sutton |
30 | 10 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 40 |
| 51 | Dessie Sheehan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 30 |
| 52 | Matthew Glasby |
0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 30 |
| 53 | Daniel Wells |
– | 10 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 54 | Hans Blanckaert |
0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| 55 | Grzegorz Biernadski |
– | – | 30 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 56 | Simon Dent |
0 | 10 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 30 |
| 57 | Kristof Vermeiren |
0 | 0 | 20 | 10 | – | 0 | 30 |
| 58 | Felix Frede |
– | – | – | – | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 59 | Jao Grilo |
– | – | – | – | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 60 | Michael Tomlinson |
– | – | – | – | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| 61 | Conor McCormack |
– | – | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 62 | Daniel Schneider |
– | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 63 | Andres Petrov |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 64 | Luca Kaufmann |
– | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 65 | Martin McCrudden |
20 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 66 | Phuntsok Jaegers |
– | – | – | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 67 | Richard Jones |
– | – | – | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 68 | Anthony Jeffers |
20 | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 69 | John Parkin |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 70 | Peter Devlin |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 71 | Saqib Nasir |
– | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | |
| 72 | Spasian Spasov |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 73 | Stanislav Hadjipopov |
– | – | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 74 | Adam Bobat |
– | 0 | 0 | 20 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 75 | Andrew Rogers |
20 | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 76 | Rhys Clark |
20 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 77 | Sascha Lippe |
0 | 20 | – | – | – | 0 | 20 |
| 78 | Sergiy Isayenko |
20 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 20 |
| 79 | Daan Leyssen |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 80 | Francisco Domingues |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 81 | Mark Dooley |
– | – | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 82 | Chris Jones |
– | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 83 | Manon Melief |
10 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 84 | Adam Edge |
– | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 10 |
| 85 | Bratislav Krustev |
– | – | 10 | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 86 | Jamie O’Neill |
10 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 87 | Jordan Brown |
– | 10 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 88 | Roman Dietzel |
10 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 89 | Stefan Schenk |
– | 10 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 90 | Stephane Ochoiski |
– | 10 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 91 | Tan Wang Chooi |
– | 10 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 92 | Teodor Chomovski |
– | – | 10 | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 93 | Carl Rosenberger |
– | 10 | – | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 94 | Karen Osipov |
– | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 10 |
| 95 | Marinus Teerling |
– | – | – | 10 | – | 0 | 10 |
| 96 | Mark Vincent |
10 | – | 0 | – | – | 0 | 10 |
| 97 | Aleksandr Kurgankov |
0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | 10 |
| 98 | Kobi Mates |
0 | 10 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 10 |
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