1992/1993 Strachan Challenge – Event 1

Strachan Challenge – Event 1 1992 12 12 1992 12 21 y Jimmy White Snooker Lodge Aldershot England WPBSA Minor-ranking event £3,000 Joe Swail NIR Stefan Mazrocis ENG 9–4 1993 The Strachan Challenge Series – Event 1 was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament, that was held from 12 to 21 December 1992 at the Jimmy White Snooker Lodge in Aldershot, England. The event was held in an effort to encourage some of the hundreds of new professionals who had joined the tour, the WPBSA experimented with several so-called minor ranking events. These were open to all the pros but carried a much lower ranking points tariff, around ten per cent of that applicable to most of the other tournaments. The already established Benson and Hedges Championship was one of the four events and the others were three legs of the Strachan Challenge. Although there was no restriction as to who could enter, most of the top 16 did not bother. They were played out at snooker clubs, the first and the third at Aldershot and the second in Sheffield. The experiment was not repeated although there were two further Challenge events the following season which did not carry any ranking status.Strachan Open, Strachan Challenge http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/strachan.html Chris Turner's Snooker Archive 29 January 2018 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120216155447/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/strachan.html 16 February 2012 Joe Swail won the tournament by defeating Stefan Mazrocis nine frames to four in the final.Hayton Eric Cuesport Book of Professional Snooker 163 Six members of the top-16 entered, the highest-ranked of them being Neal Foulds (5th). None of them reached as far as the quarter-finals.Swail sweeps to £3,000 first prize Snooker Scene February 1993 5-7 Prize fund The breakdown of prize money for the event is shown below: Winner: £3,000 Runner-up: £2,200 Semi-finals: £1,400 Quarter-finals: £850 Last 16: £500 Last 32: £200 Last 64: £100 Last 128: £50 __TOC__ Main draw Last 32Best of 9 frames Last 16Best of 9 frames Quarter-finalsBest of 9 frames Semi-finalsBest of 11 frames FinalBest of 17 frames NIR Joe Swail 5 ENG Robert Foxall 1 ENG David Roe 5 ENG Nick Terry 0 ENG Jonathan Birch 5 SCO Scott MacFarlane 3 ENG John Giles 5 ENG Paul Tanner 4 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 5 SCO Chris Small 2 IRL Stephen Murphy 5 ENG Steve Judd 1 IRL Ken Doherty 5 WAL Cliff Wilson 0 ENG Mark Davis 5 SCO Scott Bigham 1 ENG Stefan Mazrocis 5 NIR Jason Prince 3 WAL Paul Davies 5 ENG Gary Wilkinson 1 WAL Mark Bennett 5 ENG Willie Thorne 2 ENG Joe Johnson 5 NIR Alex Higgins 4 ENG Anthony Hamilton 5 WAL Darren Morgan 3 ENG Stuart Reardon 5 ENG Rod Lawler 4 RSA 1982 Peter Francisco 5 ENG Brian Rowswell 3 ENG Martin Clark 5 ENG Bob Marshall 3 NIR Joe Swail 5 ENG David Roe 2 ENG Jonathan Birch 5 ENG John Giles 3 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 5 IRL Stephen Murphy 3 IRL Ken Doherty 5 ENG Mark Davis 2 ENG Stefan Mazrocis 5 WAL Paul Davies 2 WAL Mark Bennett 5 ENG Joe Johnson 0 ENG Anthony Hamilton 5 ENG Stuart Reardon 3 RSA 1982 Peter Francisco 5 ENG Martin Clark 4 NIR Joe Swail 5 ENG Jonathan Birch 4 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 5 IRL Ken Doherty 0 ENG Stefan Mazrocis 5 WAL Mark Bennett 4 ENG Anthony Hamilton 5 RSA 1982 Peter Francisco 3 NIR Joe Swail 6 ENG Ronnie O'Sullivan 5 ENG Stefan Mazrocis 6 ENG Anthony Hamilton 4 NIR Joe Swail 9 ENG Stefan Mazrocis 4 References Category:1992 in snooker