Following the unprecedented success of this summer’s Championship League, the event has been expanded to a full WST ranking event feature 128 players over 21 days, split into three weeks across September and October.

• STAGE ONE will be played across two blocks of eight days: September 13-20 and September 28–October 5. This stage features 32 groups of four players, with two tables per day hosting one group each. The player who tops each group will progress to Stage Two.
• STAGE TWO (October 26-29) sees the 32 group winners split into eight further groups of four, with two groups per day also played over two tables.
• STAGE THREE (October 30) will see the eight Stage Two Group Winners battle it out over two final groups, with the two group winners contesting the best-of-5 final.

GROUP STANDINGS

Players will be awarded three points for a win and one point for a drawn match. The Group Table standings will be determined by the following criteria, in this order:

1. Highest number of points
2. Net frame difference
3. Result of match between the two players in question. Should three or more players be tied then a mini table will be produced using the criteria above.
4. Highest break in the group
5. If the highest break is also tied, the next highest break made by the players in question will be used