The comrades on the first floor answered irrelevant questions. The following are all written by myself, so I won't extract them. Let me answer your first question first. The Australian Open will be held on July 18. The application form you asked means that the WTF will draw lots before the start of each ranking match. The top 16 players in the world are called "seeds", and they are directly promoted to full membership. There are 32 seats in the main race. Except for the seeded players, the remaining 16 seats are for the qualifiers and wild card players. Of course, most of them are qualifiers, and there are only a few wild-card players, while there are nearly a hundred qualifiers, and even some rankings have no wild cards. The qualifiers have to draw lots and compete. In the qualifiers, the higher your ranking, the less you will participate in the qualifiers. For example, the players ranked 17-32 only need to play one round of qualifiers, and China's Liang only needs to play one round of qualifiers, and so on. If you rank 80 or 90, you may have to play five qualifying rounds to enter the race, and then play five more qualifying rounds to win the championship. It is conceivable that the chances of winning the championship are small for the players who rank very low.
The ranking competition system generally adopts the single-defeat elimination system, and the number of games in each round will change. Qualifying matches are generally the same as the first, second and third rounds (except for the World Championships, the first round of qualifying matches and the first round are 19 10 wins, the second round is 25 games 13 wins and the semi-final is 33 games 17 wins). Different competition systems are different. For example, the China Open and the Shanghai Masters won 5 games in the first 9 games and won 19 games 10 in the final. For example, the World Open started with only three wins in five games and only five wins in nine finals, and the Welsh Open ended with seven wins in four finals1seven wins in nine finals, while the British Championship was the second only tournament after the World Championships, with 65,438 wins at the beginning.
If the landlord is interested in snooker, you can check the snooker schedule and pay attention to the game time and live broadcast time of each snooker ranking match. You'll know if you watch more.