Next season’s Home Nations events, as well as the German Masters, will have a tiered format, which means that all of the world’s top 32 will start in the last-64 round at the final venue.
The round structure for the 2024 English Open, Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open as well as the 2025 German Masters and Welsh Open will be:
Qualifying rounds
Round one
Players seeded 65-96 v players seeded 97-128
Round two
Those 32 winners v players seeded 33-64
Final venue
Last 64
32 qualifiers v players seeded 1-32
This change gives the lower ranked players the opportunity to earn prize money through the earlier rounds and beyond, while ensuring that television audiences and ticket-holders can see the leading players at the final venue. To support this change, we will be increasing prize money for all of these events to over £500,000.
WST Chairman Steve Dawson said: “The 2024/25 season will undoubtedly be the biggest season in the history of the sport. We have announced events with prize money in excess of £16 million and there will be further announcements regarding prize money and new events that will take us close to our target of £20 million; a target we had set for the 2026/27 season and that we expect to hit well in advance of time. This could see not only two or three players hitting over £1 million prize money from a single season that we will witness this year, but four, five or six players joining that group.”
Tickets are already on sale for:
2024 English Open, Brentwood, September 16-22. CLICK HERE
2024 Northern Ireland Open, Belfast, October 20-27. CLICK HERE
2024 Scottish Open, Edinburgh, December 9-15. CLICK HERE
2025 German Masters, January 27 to February 2. CLICK HERE