The Q Tour season will reach its conclusion in Gandia over the next few days with the Global Play-Offs providing three lucrative tickets to the professional circuit.
The Palace Hotel, which has also been staging the EBSA European Championships across the last fortnight, will host proceedings from Sunday through to Tuesday.
A total of 24 players will participate, each hoping to win the three matches required to safeguard promotion to the World Snooker Tour.
Jamie Clarke, a winner at Q Tour Event 4 and Event 5 during the 2025/26 campaign, has already graduated from the feeder circuit.
The Welshman, who reached the second round of the World Championship six years ago, finished top of the Q Tour rankings list after the seven regular-season events that were staged in Europe.
A minimum of 16 players below Clarke in those standings were to be invited to compete in the Q Tour Global Play-Offs.
The other eight spots were supposed to go to competitors from the Global Q Tour series of tournaments that were held in emerging regions for the sport – the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.
Disappointingly, however, only three cueists from these territories will be taking part, comprising two from the Americas, one from the Middle East, and none from the Asia-Pacific.
That means that there are instead 21 players from the main European region of the Q Tour rankings, providing second chances to a number of players who had initially finished below the cut-off point.
Indeed, qualification goes all the way down to Callum Beresford who placed in a lowly 25th place at the end of the regular Q Tour term.
That is because 2nd placed Hammad Miah (WSF Championship), 18th placed Alfie Burden (one-year WST rankings), and 20th placed Mykhailo Larkov (WSF Junior Championship) have each already secured, or in Burden’s case almost secured, their routes back to the main tour.
In any case, it promises to be a high-pressured few days on the east coast of Spain.
As usual, the field at the Q Tour Global Play-Offs has been split into three mini knockout brackets of eight players in each.
Three victories will be needed in order to earn one of the coveted spots as a professional on the World Snooker Tour for the upcoming 2026/27 and 2027/28 seasons.
Among those in action will be veteran Englishmen Peter Lines and Barry Pinches, who find themselves in the same section.
Pinches’ son Luke, meanwhile, is one of a number of players who are hoping to seal professional status for the first time in their careers.
Other familiar players include Ashley Hugill, Ashley Carty, Andrew Higginson, Mark Joyce, Sean O’Sullivan, Stuart Carrington, and Peter Devlin.
First-round matches take place over nine frames, the penultimate round across 11 frames, before the prospect of three 19-frame finals over two sessions offers a fitting finish to the tournament.
The full draw ahead of the three-day event is below, but you can keep updated with the latest scores over at snooker.org.
2026 Q Tour Global Play-Offs
Play-Off 1
Peter Lines vs Oliver Briffett-Payne
Barry Pinches vs Ryan Thomerson
Simon Blackwell vs Peter Devlin
Hayden Staniland vs Ashley Carty
Play-Off 2
Oliver Sykes vs Andrew Higginson
Ismail Turker vs Mark Joyce
Alfie Davies vs Sean O’Sullivan
Luke Pinches vs Ashley Hugill
Play-Off 3
Craig Steadman vs Callum Beresford
Alan Whitfield vs Patrick Whelan
George Pragnell vs Hasanain Khalid Alsultani
Alex Millington vs Stuart Carrington
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