Players Tour Championship 2015/2016 Explained

The Players Tour Championship 2015/2016 was a series of snooker tournaments which started on 29 July 2015 and ended on 27 March 2016, with events held across Europe and Asia. In this season the European events form the European Tour and events held in Asia the Asian Tour. This season there were seven regular minor-ranking events down from nine the previous season concluding with the finals which held full Ranking event status.

Schedule

Date^[1]			width=235	Tournament Name	width=180	Venue	width=90	City	width=160	Winner	width=160	Runner–up	width=30		width=20	References
07–29	08–02		European Tour – Event 1^[2]	Arena Riga	Riga			4–1	^[3]
08–26	08–30		European Tour – Event 2^[4]	Stadthalle	Fürth	Ali Carter		4–3	^[5]
10–07	10–11		European Tour – Event 3^[6]		Mülheim	Rory McLeod	Tian Pengfei	4–2	^[7]
10–19	10–23		Asian Tour – Event 1^[8]		Haining	Ding Junhui	Ricky Walden	4–3	^[9]
11–04	11–08		European Tour – Event 4^[10]	Universiada Hall	Sofia	Mark Allen	Ryan Day	4–0	^[11]
12–09	12–13	Gibraltar	European Tour – Event 5^[12]		Gibraltar	Marco Fu	Michael White	4–1	^[13]
02–23	02–28	Poland	European Tour – Event 6^[14]	Gdynia Sports Arena	Gdynia	Mark Selby	Martin Gould	4–1	^[15]
				EventCity	Manchester	Mark Allen	Ricky Walden	10–6	^[16]

Order of Merit

The prize money collected at each PTC tournament is summed up to obtain the European and Asian Tour Order of Merit. The top 24 from the European Tour Order of Merit, the top 2 from the Asian Tour Order of Merit plus six more from a combination of both lists will qualify for the PTC finals in Manchester.^[17]

European Tour

After 6 out of 6 events:

width=40 align="center"	Rank	width=150	Player	width=90	Total Points	width=100	Events Played
1	Mark Selby	26,625	6
2	Barry Hawkins	25,275	4
3	Marco Fu	23,175	4
4	Mark Allen	22,200	4
5	Rory McLeod	22,200	6
6	Ali Carter	20,550	3
7	Shaun Murphy	15,975	6
8	Ryan Day	14,475	6
9	Mark King	13,200	6
10	Michael White	13,200	6
11	Tom Ford	13,050	6
12	Mark Williams	12,225	6
13	Tian Pengfei	11,700	5
14	Martin Gould	10,425	4
15	Andrew Higginson	10,275	6
16	Mike Dunn	9,975	6
17	Kyren Wilson	9,900	6
18	Ben Woollaston	9,750	6
19	Michael Holt	8,700	6
20	Liang Wenbo	8,550	6
21	Judd Trump	8,250	6
22	Dominic Dale	8,025	6
23	Alan McManus	7,950	6
24	David Gilbert	7,350	6

Asian Tour

After 1 out of 1 events:

width=40 align="center"	Rank	width=150	Player	width=90	Total Points	width=100	Events Played
1	Ding Junhui	13,500	1
2	Ricky Walden	6,500	1

Both

After 7 out of 7 events:

width=40 align="center"	Rank	width=150	Player	width=90	Total Points	width=100	Events Played
1	Jimmy Robertson	8,000	7
2	Sam Baird	7,275	6
3	Luca Brecel	6,675	6
4	Graeme Dott	6,450	5
5	Robert Milkins	6,200	7
6	Mark Davis	6,150	5

(Top 6 players of all 7 PTC events who haven't already qualified)

Notes and References

1. Dates use the month day format
2. Event also known as the 2015 Riga Open.
3. Web site: European Tour Event One. Snooker.org. 3 August 2015.
4. Event also known as the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic.
5. Web site: European Tour Event Two. Snooker.org. 7 September 2015.
6. Event also known as the 2015 Ruhr Open.
7. Web site: European Tour Event Three. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
8. Event also known as the 2015 Haining Open.
9. Web site: Asian Tour. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
10. Event also known as the 2015 Bulgarian Open.
11. Web site: European Tour Event Four. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
12. Event also known as the 2015 Gibraltar Open.
13. Web site: European Tour Event Five. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
14. Event also known as the 2015 Gdynia Open.
15. Web site: European Tour Event Six. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
16. Web site: Players Championship Grand Final. Snooker.org. 1 November 2015.
17. Web site: Bingham Targets Gdynia Success. World Snooker. en-US. 2016-02-27.