Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 Q Tour | |
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| Sport | Snooker |
|---|---|
| First season | 1994 (professional non-ranking event) 2018 (amateur event) |
| Organising body | WPBSA |
| Division | 2 |
| Country | Worldwide |
| Region | Q Tour Europe Q Tour Global (Americas, Asia-Pacific and Middle East) |
| Most recent champion(s) | By prize money: Zhao Xintong (CHN) |
| Promotion to | World Snooker Tour |
| Official website | https://wpbsa.com/events-list/wpbsa-q-tour/ |
The Q Tour, officially the WPBSA Q Tour, is a second-tier series of snooker tournaments immediately below the level of the World Snooker Tour, consisting of amateur and ex-professional players to compete for qualifying places to the main tour. It is organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).
The tour originally ran from the 1994–95 season as professional non-ranking events. Due to the large numbers of players on tour at that time, the new WPBSA Minor Tour was formed so players lower down the rankings had tournaments to play in. Being subsequently rebranded the UK Tour and then the Challenge Tour,[1] The WPBSA operated the three-level circuit until the end of the 2002–03 season when it split with the amateur governing body English Association of Snooker and Billiards (EASB) and professional players were no longer eligible to enter through the third-tier International Open Series (PIOS).[2] The Challenge Tour was axed upon completion of the 2004–05 season.
It was revived for the 2018–19 season and being rebranded as the Q Tour for the 2021–22 season.[3][4]
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