The time has finally arrived for us all to witness the world's best players demonstrating their skills in the attempt to lift the Champions trophy for 2012 IBSF World Snooker for Men, Masters and Women scheduled at Sofia, Bulgaria from 24th November to 2nd December 2012.
Everybody by now is well aware of the unfortunate cancellation of the event scheduled for Egypt, and we are pleased to present the 2012 World Snooker Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IBSF wishes to thank Bulgarian Snooker Federation for hosting the event at such short notice, and to all those unseen volunteers that have made this happen.
The Championship will witness some thrilling performances from over 190 participants, 100 Men, 41 Women and 50 Masters (age 40+) players exhibit their skills over the next 10 days in the format as below:
Men: 20 Groups of 5. Top 3 in each group will advance to knockout stage. From those 30 players, top 4 will be seeded to last 32 stage and remaining will play the round of 64.
Women's: 8 Groups of 5 Top 3 from each group will qualify for knockout. Top 8 of those 24 players will be advanced to Last 16 stage and remaining will play to win and meet those top 8 in the successive round.
Masters: 10 Groups of 5 the top 3 of each group will move into last 32 stage with a bye to top two players of knockout stage.
Matches will be played on 16 Shender tables using Strachan 30oz cloth with 1G Snooker balls by Aramith.
Playing schedule and Group stages are available on IBSF website. There will be Live Scoring for all matches and provisions have been made for Live Streaming on three match tables. Links of the same will be made available on IBSF website, Facebook and Twitter once the championship starts.
By Indian Sports News Network
