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The 2024 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2024 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) is a professional snooker tournament that is taking place from 20 April to 6 May 2024 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 48th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship has been staged at the venue. The qualifying rounds took place from 8 to 17 April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The 17th and final ranking event of the 2023–24 snooker season, it is organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored by car retailer Cazoo. The event is being broadcast domestically in the United Kingdom by the BBC, Eurosport, and Discovery+, as well as by other broadcasters worldwide. The winner will receive £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. Luca Brecel was the defending champion, having defeated Mark Selby in the 2023 final. Brecel lost 9‍–‍10 in the first round to David Gilbert. As a first time champion, he was unable to overcome the Crucible curse and he was the 19th first time champion who was unable to defend his title at the venue. In the third round of qualifying, Noppon Saengkham made a maximum break. Background The final of the first World Snooker Championship took place in 1927 at Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England, and was won by Joe Davis. Staged annually until 1940, the tournament was not held from 1941‍–‍45 due to World War II and went into decline in the post-war era; the 1952 event was contested by only two players and was replaced by the World Professional Match-play Championship, which was also discontinued in 1957. Joe Davis won the first 15 World Championships, held from 1927 to 1946, and is the only undefeated player in the tournament's history. Revived on a challenge basis in 1964, the World Championship reverted to an annual knockout tournament in 1969, which marked the beginning of the championship's "modern era". In 1977, the tournament was first staged at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, where it has remained since. Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan are the most successful players in the World Championship's modern era, each having won the title seven times. Hendry is the tournament's youngest winner, having captured his first title in 1990, aged 21 years and 106 days. O'Sullivan is the oldest winner, having secured his seventh title in 2022, aged 46 years and 168 days. The 2024 event (officially the 2024 Cazoo World Snooker Championship) is organised by the World Snooker Tour and sponsored for the second time by car retailer Cazoo. It marks the 48th consecutive year that the tournament has been held at the Crucible, and the 56th successive year that the World Championship has been contested through the modern knockout format. Luca Brecel was the defending champion, having defeated Mark Selby 18‍–‍15 in the 2023 final to win his first world title. The first winner from mainland Europe, Brecel is the fourth World Champion in the modern era from outside the United Kingdom, following Cliff Thorburn in 1980, Ken Doherty in 1997, and Neil Robertson in 2010. At the 2024 event, he attempted to overcome the Crucible curse, which refers to the failure of any first-time winner to retain the title since the tournament moved to the Crucible in 1977, but he was knocked out in the first round after losing to David Gilbert 10‍–‍9. Format Qualifying took place from 8 to 17 April 2024 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, England. A total of 128 players competed over four qualifying rounds for 16 places in the main stage. The players included professionals outside the top 16 of the snooker world rankings and 18 leading amateur players. Several professional players that did not enter the qualifying rounds were replaced by amateurs based on the 2023 Q School Order of Merit. The main stage of the championship is being held from 20 April to 6 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The top 16 players in the world rankings are seeded per their standing following the 2024 Tour Championship, and were drawn randomly against the 16 successful qualifiers in the first round. The draw was broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live on 18 April. All qualifying matches and first-round matches are the best of 19 frames, played over two sessions. Second-round matches and quarter-finals will be the best of 25 frames, played over three sessions. Semi-finals will be the best of 33 frames and the final will be the best of 35 frames, played over four sessions. Broadcasters The qualifying matches were broadcast by Discovery+ in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland); Huya in China; and Matchroom.live in all other territories. Round four of qualifying, called "Judgement Day", was also streamed on World Snooker Tour's YouTube and Facebook pages. The main stages of the event are being broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom; Discovery+ and Eurosport in Europe (including the United Kingdom and Ireland); CCTV-5, Migu, Youku, and Huya in mainland China; DAZN in the United States and Brazil; Now TV in Hong Kong; Astro SuperSport in Malaysia and Brunei; TrueVisions in Thailand; Sportcast in Taiwan; Premier Sports Network in the Philippines; Fastsports in Pakistan; and Matchroom.live in all other territories. Prize fund The winner of the event will receive £500,000 from a total prize fund of £2,395,000. The breakdown of prize money is shown below: Total: £2,395,000 A bonus of £40,000 is on offer for a maximum break made at the Crucible, and £10,000 for a maximum made in the qualifying rounds. These bonuses are in addition to the £15,000 highest break prize and will be shared in the case of multiple maximums. An additional bonus of £147,000 is on offer for players who make two maximum breaks during the season's Triple Crown events. The latter bonus can be won up to three times, including multiple times by the same player (e.g. if one player made six maximums in Triple Crown events, they would win £441,000). Prior to the 2024 World Championship, three players had already made maximums that counted toward this bonus—Xu Si made a maximum in the 2023 UK Championship qualifying rounds, and Ding Junhui and Mark Allen each made one at the 2024 Masters. Xu was defeated by Alfie Burden in qualifying, and Ding was beaten by Jack Lisowski in the first round and so were no longer in the running for the bonus. Summary Qualifying Qualifying was held from 8 to 17 April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The seven-time champion Stephen Hendry chose not to enter. He had previously opted not to enter the 2022 event, and lost in the first qualifying round at the 2023 event. Martin Gould withdrew from the tournament for health reasons, having not played professionally since December 2023; his opponent, six-time runner-up Jimmy White, received a walkover. Ending the season at 129th and 81st place respectively in the world rankings, Hendry and Gould were both set to be relegated from the professional tour, but Gould was later g.... Discover the Sarah Lyu popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sarah Lyu books.