The Crucible Countdown!!!

Saturday 20th of April -Monday 6th of May at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK

The World Championship is well underway and for 112 players the dream is over but for the remaining 16 thats come through the Qualifiers at The English Institute of Sports Sheffield its about to get bigger as the Countdown to the Crucible hots up.

Waiting for them in the Draw will be Defending Champion Mark Williams, and a trio that have had their best ever season Judd Trump, Neil Robertson and 5 times Champion of the World Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Also there is Mark Selby winner in 3 of the last 5 years and despite having a bad season by his massive standards hes always a threat at the crucible.

Seeds

Ronnie O'Sullivan (27th appearance) Debut 1993
John Higgins (25th appearance) Debut 1995
Mark J Williams (21st appearance) Debut 1997
Shaun Murphy (17th appearance) Debut 2002
Stephen Maguire (16th appearance) Debut 2004
Mark Selby (15th appearance) Debut 2005
Neil Robertson (15th appearance) Debut 2005
Barry Hawkins (14th appearance) Debut 2006
Stuart Bingham (13th appearance) Debut 2000
Ding Junhui (13th appearance) Debut 2007
Mark Allen (13th appearance) Debut 2007
Judd Trump (10th appearance) Debut 2007
David Gilbert (5th appearance) Debut 2007
Kyren Wilson (5th appearance) Debut 2014
Luca Brecel (4th appearance) Debut 2012
Jack Lisowski (3rd appearance) Debut 2013

Qualifiers

Graeme Dott (20th appearance) Debut 1997
Allister Carter (17th appearance) Debut 2003
Joe Perry (16th appearance) Debut 1999
Mark Davis (11th appearance) Debut 1994
Martin Gould (9th appearance) Debut 2009
Anthony McGill (5th appearance) Debut 2015
Gary Wilson (2nd appearance) Debut 2017
Zhou Yuelong (2nd appearance) Debut 2017
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (2nd appearance) Debut 2018
Lou Honghao (Debut) Debut 2019
Li Hang (Debut) Debut 2019
Michael Georgiou (Debut) Debut 2019
James Cahill (Debut) Debut 2019
Scott Donaldson (Debut) Debut 2019
Zhao Xintong (Debut) Debut 2019
Tian Pengfei (Debut) Debut 2019

The Draw is Live on Facebook Live and Youtube at 11.00am on Thursday 18th of April Live at the Crucible

And Then the countdown really begins

Last 32 Draw

Mark Williams (1) v Martin Gould
David Gilbert (16) v Joe Perry
Barry Hawkins (9) v Li Hang
Kyren Wilson (8) v Scott Donaldson
John Higgins (5) v Mark Davis
Stuart Bingham (12) v Graeme Dott
Shaun Murphy (13) v Luo Honghao
Neil Robertson (4) v Michael Georgiou
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Mark Selby (3) v Zhao Xintong
Luca Brecel (14) v Gary Wilson
Jack Lisowski (11) v Allister Carter
Mark Allen (6) v Zhou Yuelong
Judd Trump (7) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ding Junhui (10) v Anthony McGill
Stephen Maguire (15) v Tian Pengfei
Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) v James Cahill

We already have a countdown thread.

Come on Mark

Cloud Strife wrote:We already have a countdown thread.

Ghats a cheap imitation

Barry to lose early this year

If there was no draw and they just went 1v32, 2v31, 16v17 etc then the draw would be

Mark Williams (1) v Gary Wilson
David Gilbert (16) v Tian Pengfei
Barry Hawkins (9) v Anthony McGill
Kyren Wilson (8) v Luo Honghao
John Higgins (5) v Li Hang
Stuart Bingham (12) v Graeme Dott
Shaun Murphy (13) v Michael Georgiou
Neil Robertson (4) v Martin Gould
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Mark Selby (3) v Zhou Yeulong
Luca Brecel (14) v Ali Carter
Jack Lisowski (11) v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Mark Allen (6) v Mark Davis
Judd Trump (7) v Scott Donaldson
Ding Junhui (10) v James Cahill
Stephen Maguire (15) v Joe Perry
Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) v Zhao Xintong

Unseeded draw everyone will be hoping for: Georgiou
Unseeded draw everyone will want to avoid: Xintong

It will be funny if Ding won't draw a fellow Chinese with so many in the lot this year.

Come on Robbo, think it's your time again!

The three winners of the Shoot-Out as a ranking event, have all qualified.

Vallomas wrote:The three winners of the Shoot-Out as a ranking event, have all qualified.

It's a good point.

I wonder if the ShootOut demands skills that are vital in the qualifiers?

Ok the countdown is well underway with just over 2 days and 1 hour to go.before Mark Williams walks out to the crucible crowd as defending champion something he has experianced before but not since 2004 back then his 1st match was against Dominic Dale he beat Dominic 10-7 but then lost 13-11 to Joe Perry.

Joe Perry could potentially play him this year in the first round when the draw is done in about 2 and a quarter hours.

from 2004 only 7 players survive

Mark Williams
Ronnie O'Sullivan
John Higgins
Joe Perry
Graeme Dott
Ali Carter
Stephen Maguire

Shaun Murphy who was to win it the following year lost 10-7 to Stuart Pettman in the last 64

Wildey wrote:Ok the countdown is well underway with just over 2 days and 1 hour to go.before Mark Williams walks out to the crucible crowd as defending champion something he has experianced before but not since 2004 back then his 1st match was against Dominic Dale he beat Dominic 10-7 but then lost 13-11 to Joe Perry.

Joe Perry could potentially play him this year in the first round when the draw is done in about 2 and a quarter hours.

from 2004 only 7 players survive

Mark Williams
Ronnie O'Sullivan
John Higgins
Joe Perry
Graeme Dott
Ali Carter
Stephen Maguire

Shaun Murphy who was to win it the following year lost 10-7 to Stuart Pettman in the last 64

How many players have survived from the tournament in 1993?

Cloud Strife wrote:

Wildey wrote:Ok the countdown is well underway with just over 2 days and 1 hour to go.before Mark Williams walks out to the crucible crowd as defending champion something he has experianced before but not since 2004 back then his 1st match was against Dominic Dale he beat Dominic 10-7 but then lost 13-11 to Joe Perry.

Joe Perry could potentially play him this year in the first round when the draw is done in about 2 and a quarter hours.

from 2004 only 7 players survive

Mark Williams
Ronnie O'Sullivan
John Higgins
Joe Perry
Graeme Dott
Ali Carter
Stephen Maguire

Shaun Murphy who was to win it the following year lost 10-7 to Stuart Pettman in the last 64

How many players have survived from the tournament in 1993?

From the second round in 1993 nobody

Andre147 wrote:Just hope they dont cockerel it up this time with the draw having it at 11...

you just live in hope.


They find different ways every year to mess things up.

SnookerFan wrote:

Andre147 wrote:Just hope they dont cockerel it up this time with the draw having it at 11...

That was ridiculous last year. How difficult can it be to get pulling balls out of a hat right?

Extreamly. You might get a cut from a thread or your hand will disapear and be replaced by a Rabbit.

SnookerFan wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Andre147 wrote:Just hope they dont cockerel it up this time with the draw having it at 11...

you just live in hope.


They find different ways every year to mess things up.

We should have a Prediction Contest on how they'll bottom it up this year.

My guess is that somebody loses the bag of balls at the last minute, and it takes them three hours to find it.

Or Days


Morning of the first round all 16 qualifiers turns up not kowing who plays Mark Williams

Don't know why you'd even bother with a hat and balls these days. Could just do it in a spreadsheet.

HappyCamper wrote:Don't know why you'd even bother with a hat and balls these days. Could just do it in a spreadsheet.

buck sakes dont confuse them or the draw will never be made

It’s more fun with a hat. The best is the masters where you have the crowd reacting to the matches.

SnookerFan wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Andre147 wrote:Just hope they dont cockerel it up this time with the draw having it at 11...

you just live in hope.


They find different ways every year to mess things up.

We should have a Prediction Contest on how they'll bottom it up this year.

My guess is that somebody loses the bag of balls at the last minute, and it takes them three hours to find it.

They’ll forget to put the numbers on the balls.

SnookerFan wrote:

Iranu wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:

Wildey wrote:

Andre147 wrote:Just hope they dont cockerel it up this time with the draw having it at 11...

you just live in hope.


They find different ways every year to mess things up.

We should have a Prediction Contest on how they'll bottom it up this year.

My guess is that somebody loses the bag of balls at the last minute, and it takes them three hours to find it.

They’ll forget to put the numbers on the balls.

Surely they don't make new balls for every draw?

I Think youll find they do balls up every draw