The 2025 Gamers Championship commences on Monday with the highest 16 gamers from the one-year rankings within the attract Telford.
It’s the second of three tournaments on the Gamers Sequence, coming every week after Neil Robertson triumphed on the 32-player World Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
Solely the 12-player Tour Championship – the place qualification can also be based mostly off the one-year rating listing – and the season-concluding World Snooker Championship are to come back after.
This week’s Gamers Championship boasts a complete prize fund value £500,000 with a good-looking cheque of £150,000 going to Sunday’s champion.
2025 Gamers Championship Prize Cash
Champion: £150,000
Runner-up: £70,000
Semi-Finals: £35,000
Quarter-Finals: £20,000
Spherical of 16: £15,000
Highest Break: £10,000
Whole: £500,000
Who’s within the 2025 Gamers Championship draw?
The highest 16 gamers from the single-season rankings have certified to take part on the Telford Worldwide Centre.
Judd Trump is the primary seed having accrued nearly 1,000,000 kilos in prize cash from rating occasions this time period.
The 35 year-old, a two-time Gamers Championship winner, is the one participant to have certified for each single version because it integrated this guise in 2017.
The pre-tournament favorite within the outright betting market will face Lei Peifan within the first spherical, the 21 year-old persevering with to reap the rewards of his shock Scottish Open success in December.
World champion Kyren Wilson will face reigning Gamers Championship winner Mark Allen in a blockbuster opening-round conflict.
Allen beat Zhang Anda to say the title a yr in the past however has usually struggled for peak type in rating occasions since then.
The Northern Irishman has dropped from first on the official world rankings listing firstly of the season to his present place of quantity eight.
Arguably probably the most intriguing tie of the primary spherical pits Neil Robertson in opposition to Stuart Bingham in a repeat of the latest World Grand Prix last.
Robertson thrashed Bingham 10-0 on the Kai Tak Enviornment in Hong Kong, however the latter could have an instantaneous alternative to enact a modicum of revenge.
Bingham, Allen, and Lei – along with thirteenth seed Chris Wakelin – all want wins if they’ve aspirations of qualifying for the 12-strong Tour Championship in Manchester.
The latter may break into the highest 12 with a run to the semi-finals, however the different three might want to no less than attain the ultimate.
Wakelin faces a tricky opening take a look at in opposition to John Higgins, who cuts a rejuvenated drive following his glory on the World Open in Yushan.
Elsewhere within the 2025 Gamers Championship draw, Barry Hawkins entertains Masters champion Shaun Murphy.
There’s additionally a heavyweight showdown between two former world quantity ones in Mark Williams and Ding Junhui.
An all-Chinese language conflict will see Wu Yize tackle Xiao Guodong, who represents arguably probably the most improved competitor on the tour this season.
The primary spherical’s different fixture has Mark Selby, a two-time champion from 2025 already, going up in opposition to Si Jiahui.
Spherical of 16 (bo11)
Matches to be performed from Monday, March seventeenth to Wednesday, March nineteenth
Judd Trump (1) vs Lei Peifan (16)
Barry Hawkins (8) vs Shaun Murphy (9)
Xiao Guodong (5) vs Wu Yize (12)
John Higgins (4) vs Chris Wakelin (13)
Neil Robertson (3) vs Stuart Bingham (14)
Mark Selby (6) vs Si Jiahui (11)
Mark Williams (7) vs Ding Junhui (10)
Kyren Wilson (2) vs Mark Allen (15)
Click on right here to view the most recent scores and outcomes
(snooker.org)
The right way to watch the event
There are a number of choices accessible to look at the 2025 Gamers Championship this yr. The complete listing of world broadcasters:
UK
ITV
Eire
ITV
TNT Sports activities
Mainland Europe
Eurosport and regionally related streaming platforms
(discovery+ in Germany, Italy, and Austria. MAX in all different markets)
China
Huya.com
Migu
CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat Channel
CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin
Hong Kong China
Now TV
Malaysia and Brunei
Astro
Philippines
Faucet
Taiwan
Sportcast
Thailand
True Sport
Indonesia
Sportstars/Imaginative and prescient+
All different territories
WST Play
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