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Location
  
Watford

Established
  
1990

Current champion
  
Anthony McGill

Total prize fund
  
130,000 GBP

Country
  
England

Format
  
Ranking event

Venue
  
Watford

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Organisation
  
World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association

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The Snooker Shoot-Out is a professional ranking snooker tournament played under a variation of the standard rules. The 2017 event is the first time that the tournament was staged as a ranking event. Anthony McGill is the defending champion.

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History

A similar event known as Shoot-Out was first held in September 1990, when, except the final, all matches were decided over a single frame. The event returned in 2011 with several innovations, and was renamed to Snooker Shoot-Out. It was sponsored by CaesarsCasino.com, and has been compared to cricket's Twenty20 matches.

It is a one-frame shoot-out with a random draw, where the winner is given £32,000. The top 64 players in the world rankings contested the tournament, which was shown on Sky and ITV 4. The 2011 event was the first time that Sky has shown a World Snooker event live since 2004. Since 2011 the event took place at the Circus Arena in Blackpool. The event was sponsored by PartyPoker.com in 2012, by Betfair in 2013, by 888casino in 2014, and by Betway in 2015. The tournament was held at the Hexagon in Reading for 2016 and was sponsored by Coral. In 2017 the shoot-out is a ranking event for the first time, open to all 128 professional players.

Format

Rules by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association:

  • Every frame lasts 10 minutes.
  • There is a shot clock. For the first 5 minutes of the match, players have 15 seconds per shot, but for the last 5 minutes this is reduced to 10 seconds. Failure to strike the cue ball within the time allowed results in a 5-point penalty. Prior to 2013, the shot clock was set at 20 seconds per shot for the first 5 minutes and 15 seconds for the last 5 minutes.
  • Players must hit a cushion (with any ball) or pot a ball with every shot. Prior to 2013 either the cue ball or the object ball needed to hit a cushion.
  • All fouls result in ball in hand.
  • Players ‘lag’ for who breaks off.
  • In an event of a tie the blue ball shoot-out determines the winner. The blue ball is placed on its spot and the player can place the cue ball anywhere within the D before attempting to pot the blue (winner of lag decides who goes first).

    • References

    Snooker Shoot-Out Wikipedia
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