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2012–13 snooker season

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2012–13 snooker season
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The 2012–13 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between 16 May 2012 and 6 May 2013. The season featured two new ranking events: the Wuxi Classic and the International Championship. The tour had a record five ranking events in China, and three new PTC events in Asia. The tour also visited Bulgaria for the first time in its history,[1] and returned to Poland, Belgium and Australia. Before the start of the season World Snooker requested every player to sign a players contract, that would allow players to choose which events they want to enter – no player was forced to play in any event.[2] At the end of the season Mark Selby was named the World Snooker Player of the Year, the Snooker Writers' Player of the Year and the Fans' Player of the Year and Ian Burns the Rookie of the Year. Ronnie O'Sullivan received the "Performance of the Year" for winning his fifth World title after playing just one competitive match during the season. Jimmy Robertson's 57 break in just 130 seconds at the Snooker Shoot Out received the "Magic Moment of the Year" award. Terry Griffiths, Joe Johnson, Peter Ebdon, Ken Doherty, Graeme Dott, Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson were inducted into the Hall of Fame.[3]

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The season had a total of £7.1 million of prize money.[4] The World Championship, the UK Championship, the International Championship and the Masters were the four biggest tournaments in terms of prize money with the total pot being over half a million pounds at each event.[5] A further £5,000 was on offer at the televised stages of each ranking event for any player who compiled a maximum break and this prize rolled over from one tournament to the next if not won. A £500 rolling prize was given to any player who completed the feat in the qualifying stages of ranking events. A separate £500 rolling prize was also available in all the PTC events, but this prize was excluded from the Asian PTCs. If at any tournament a 147 was made by more than one player, then the prize was equally shared.[6]

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New professional players

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The 2012/2013 season was made up of 99 professional players. The top 64 players after the 2012 World Championships automatically qualified for the 2012/2013 season as did the top eight who were not in the top 64 from the Players Tour Championship Order of Merit. Another twelve places were available through the 2012 Q School; the rest of the places on to the tour came from amateur events and national governing body nominations. All players except those in the top 64 received a tour card for two seasons.[7] Listed below are the players who qualified for the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 season.

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Calendar

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The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events.[26][27][28]

World Snooker Tour

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World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association

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Official rankings

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Main article: Snooker world rankings 2012/2013
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World ranking points

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Points distribution

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2012/2013 points distribution for world ranking and minor-ranking events[90]

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Notes

  1. [n 1]
    The winner was Aditya Mehta, who was on the Main Tour the previous season, and therefore couldn't re-qualify via an amateur event.
  2. [n 2]
    The winner was Hossein Vafaei, who already qualified for the Main Tour by winning IBSF World Snooker Championship.
  3. [n 3]
    Event also known as the 2012 Paul Hunter Classic
  4. [n 4]
    Event also known as the 2012 Gdynia Open
  5. [n 5]
    Event also known as the 2012 Antwerp Open and 2012 Belgian Open
  6. [n 6]
    Event also known as the 2012 Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy and the 2012 Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup
  7. [n 7]
    Event also known as the 2012 Bulgarian Open
  8. [n 8]
    Event also known as the 2012 Scottish Open
  9. [n 9]
    Event also known as the 2013 Munich Open and the 2013 FFB Open
  10. [N 10]
    "Ch" = Change since the beginning of the season 2012/2013. See [76] for the player rankings at the start of the season.
  11. [N 11]
    The 2010/2011 points only included the ranking points that counted towards the next seedings update. See [78] for the points accumulated during the 2010/2011 season and see [76] for points accumulated during the 2011/2012 season. Players ranked outside of the top 64 at the beginning of the 2012/2013 season had any points accumulated from the previous seasons wiped, and started again on 0 points. Players on 0 points were ranked alphabetically.[79]
  12. [N 12]
    See [80] for the points accumulated during the 2012/2013 season up to the first cut-off point; see [81] for the points accumulated between the first and second cut-off points; see [82] for the points accumulated between the second and third; see [83] for the points accumulated between the third and fourth cut-off points; see [84] for the points accumulated at the World Championship.
  13. [N 13]
    See [85] for the rankings at the first seedings cut-off point; see [86] for the rankings at the second cut-off point; see [87] for the rankings at the third cut-off point; see [88] for the rankings at the fourth cut-off point; see [89] for the rankings at the end of the season.
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