10-584: The Six-red World Championship is a six-red snooker tournament, played with the six colour balls and six reds . Ding Junhui is the reigning champion. The event was first held in the 2008/2009 season , and was known as the Six-red Snooker International . The event was organised by the Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports . Forty-eight players were divided in 8 round-robin groups. The top four from each group moved into
20-524: The 888sport.com 6Red World Championship , among other spellings, for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament that took place between 14 and 18 December 2009 at the INEC in Killarney , Republic of Ireland . The tournament was sponsored by online bookmaker 888sport . The field of 118 players were divided into twenty groups of five and three groups of six. Twenty-eight competitors were on
30-581: The knock-out stage . In 2009 the event was renamed the Six-red World Grand Prix . In 2010, it replaced a rival tournament (sponsored by 888sport ) as the official six red snooker world championship, after the other event—held once in 2009—was discontinued. The event was not held in the 2011/2012 season , but it returned for the 2012/2013 season with the backing of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . The event
40-459: The event was listed as returning to the tour for the first time since 2019, where Stephen Maguire would have had an opportunity to defend his title. However, in the weeks leading up to the tournaments' official start date of 5 September 2022, the professional membership were notified that the tournament was to be postponed. This decision led to criticism of the World Snooker Tour , as despite
50-703: The final, becoming the first world champion of the six-red snooker format. Since this time, the Six-red World Championship has been contested in the regular season calendar, and also in the Asian Indoor and Martial arts games . A similar game consisting of ten red balls, rather than six is also played. Popular in the women's game, ten-red had a World Women's 10-Red Championship held annually in Leeds, England, from 2017 to 2019. 2009 Six-red World Championship The 2009 Six-red World Championship (styled
60-479: The final. A six-red tournament was held during the 2009 World Snooker Championship as a sideshow, involving one-frame knockout matches. In the final veteran Tony Knowles defeated 13-year-old Ross Muir 52–18. Tickets were initially free; however, future events would have been pay-to-enter. The first world championship was held in Ireland between 15 and 18 December 2009. Mark Davis beat Mark Williams 6–3 in
70-442: The table as opposed to the standard fifteen. In Six-red snooker, the traditional game of snooker is shortened, with fewer red-balls to pot. All the usual Snooker rules apply with the following exceptions: The maximum break in six-red snooker is 75, as compared to 147 for traditional snooker. The table is the same size as in the traditional 15-red game. The format was designed to feature shorter frames, due to fewer red balls. It
80-425: The well-understood position of the tournament being postponed by both players and broadcasters, no announcement had been made to the public. It was ultimately held during March of 2023, with Ding Junhui winning his second title. Six-red snooker Six-red snooker (sometimes spelled six-reds , 6-red , and also known as super 6s ), is a variant of snooker , but with only six red balls initially on
90-656: Was held at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok , Thailand between 2008 and 2014. The following year it took place in the Fashion Island Shopping Mall , before the Convention Centre became the venue for the tournament from 2016 on. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 prevented the event from being scheduled as it was not possible for tour players to travel to Thailand. In the 2022-23 snooker season ,
100-484: Was hoped that the format would revive the popularity of snooker as a spectator sport, in the same way Twenty20 has done to cricket . Jimmy White said that six-red snooker could be one way of helping boost the game's popularity. Ali Carter also said he would be interested in playing the format. The first international tournament in this format was contested in July 2008, with Ricky Walden defeating Stuart Bingham in
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