PTC Event One 2011 - engines are running

Mark Williams 2010PTC Event 1 champ

While most of the snooker fans I know are absolutely horrified of the new "short format" for the UK Championship (and just to be clear on that, I don’t like it either, but at the end of the day we are still buried in this damn economic crises), the 2011/2012 season is ready to start. And with a very wise innovation of Barry Hearn’s - the Players Tour Championship.


A year ago, I was just hunting for the scorelines (it was global-snooker.com, back then) not realizing how huge these type of events will become. Hell, I didn’t even have the blog running and kicking! :-)) Time flies when you’re having a good time and you’re in love (with snooker!), so a year after I’m in the position of covering the PTC Event One.


It seems like most of the players finally got it: they need to enter these events and they really have to play good, in order to maintain that place in the snooker "charts" (aka. the mighty ranking TOP) or maybe improve their position. Clever!
That’s why the first event needs pre-qualifying rounds, rounds that will take place on June 18th and June 19th. However, World Snooker has announced that the live scoring system will start "tormenting" us (I say this because it’s not very pleasing to hit F5 constantly) on Monday, when the competition will start properly. Now, I don’t thisk that’s quite fair ... but at least our beloved snooker season is ready to start, right? Oh, come on, show some emotions! :-))


Last year the first player to conquer the PTC Event One trophy was the "Welsh Potting Machine", Mark Williams. Let’s see if he can keep up with the hungry lads this year ... and this applies to all of the other snooker stars, because this season will surely be a genuine "battle of cues".
Below you can check today’s schedule:


From 5pm


Not before 6.30pm


Not before 7.30pm
*please note that all hours are UK time


See you tomorrow for the first scorelines. Oh... and best of luck to all the players! :-)