The order of the top 16 seeds for the Halo World Championship is now confirmed, following the completion of the last counting event, the Sportsbet.io Tour Championship.
The top 16 in the Johnstone's Paint World Rankings will be seeded at the Crucible, with Kyren Wilson on top as defending champion. They are:
1. Kyren Wilson
2. Judd Trump
3. John Higgins
4. Mark Selby
5. Ronnie O'Sullivan
6. Mark Williams
7. Luca Brecel
8. Mark Allen
9. Neil Robertson
10. Ding Junhui
11. Barry Hawkins
12. Zhang Anda
13. Si Jiahui
14. Xiao Guodong
15. Shaun Murphy
16. Jak Jones
The seeds will be ordered in the draw as follows:
Kyren Wilson (1) v qualifier
Jak Jones (16) v qualifier
Neil Robertson (9) v qualifier
Mark Allen (8) v qualifier
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Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) v qualifier
Zhang Anda (12) v qualifier
Si Jiahui (13) v qualifier
Mark Selby (4) v qualifier
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John Higgins (3) v qualifier
Xiao Guodong (14) v qualifier
Barry Hawkins (11) v qualifier
Mark Williams (6) v qualifier
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Luca Brecel (7) v qualifier
Ding Junhui (10) v qualifier
Shaun Murphy (15) v qualifier
Judd Trump (2) v qualifier
Higgins won the Sportsbet.io Tour Championship in Manchester, beating Selby 10-8 in the final. The £150,000 prize lifted him from sixth to third. Si Jiahui, Xiao Guodong and Jak Jones will all be seeds at the Crucible for the first time. All players outside the top 16 will head for the qualifying rounds, which started today at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
Many of these are in danger of relegation from the pro circuit - to follow the WPBSA Tour survival blog, click here.
Despite losing in the quarter-finals in Manchester, Trump is £549,900 ahead of Wilson at the top of the official rankings, which means he is guaranteed to finish the season as world number one.
Higgins is up to third place in the Johnstone's Paint One-Year Rankings, with Selby now fifth.
Trump made one century last week to bring his total for the season to 93. He needs seven more at the Halo World Championship to bring his tally into three figures. Selby made 11 in Manchester and now has 71 - his best ever tally in a single campaign. The first player to make 100 centuries this season will earn a £100,000 bonus.