Snooker season 2012/2013

The snooker season 2012/13 was a series of snooker tournaments that the main tour belonged.

A first version of the provisional calendar was released by the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association ( WPBSA ) end of February 2012.

New on the calendar was the International Championship in China. Since the Wuxi Classic was raised from the status of an invitation to the tournament a world ranking tournament, there is henceforth five ranking tournaments in China. Thailand was the venue for the 6- Red World Championship, which was held between 2008 and 2010, despite professional involvement but not part of the main tour calendar.

The number of tournaments in the Players Tour Championship ( PTC) has been increased from 13 to 14 ( the final tournament included in the calculation ), the PTC made ​​for the first time in Asia station.

Season Results

Players Tour Championship

World Ranking

Since the 2010/11 season the snooker world rankings will be updated after each tournament in which there are ranking points. This is several times in the season - the so-called cut-off points - for new seedings for the following tournaments.

This change in the rules reflects both the current power state of the snooker players to better resist and also prevents over again meet the same players. The ranking but still covers a period of 24 months. This prevents that a player with only one major tournament victory can quickly set up in the rankings. Rather, you want to know rewarded continuously good performance.

Press to display the positions 17-99 on [ Unfold ].

Qualification for the Main Tour 2012/13 and 2013/14

In addition to the 64 top-ranked players in the world rankings at the end of the season 2011/12 the other 35 starting places were awarded as follows:

Key points

Seeded players who lost their first game, received only half of the points ( in the table in the regular score shown in parentheses ).