The 2021 Ultimate Pool Professional Series ranking list will loosely run as a money list with all prize money earned from the Series translated into ranking points.

The only exceptions to this is for those losing in the last 16 of the ‘even numbered’ professional events each weekend, with these players collecting 250 points and to players who win a preliminary round match and then lose in the first round proper. If you get through a round, you are rewarded with ranking points.

2021 Ranking Points Schedule

Odd Numbered Professional Events

Winner: 10,000 (points)

Runner-Up: 4,000

Semi-Finalists: 2,000 each

Quarter-Finalists: 1,000 each

Last 16: 500 each

Preliminary Round winners that lose in the First Round: 250 each

Even Numbered Professional Events

Winner: 4,000 (points)

Runner-up: 2,000

Semi-Finalists: 1,000 each

Quarter-Finalists: 500 each

Last 16: 250 each

Preliminary Round winners that lose in the First Round: 125 each

NOTE: For any matches that involve a bye/withdrawal, the ‘beneficiaries’ will earn full prize money, ranking points and frames on offer.

Players Tied On Points

A) If players are level on the same number of points, positions are determined by whoever won the most points in any single event during the season.

B) If positions can’t be decided by (A) the countback method will be applied.

.1 This means positions will be decided by how many points were earned from the most recently numbered event on this season’s Professional Series.

.2 Should this still not separate players, you continue this process looking at events working backwards (most recently numbered) throughout the season until players can be separated.

C) If players have an exactly identical ranking points record throughout the entire season, positions will be decided by whoever won the greatest accumulated number of frames (from both events) throughout the most recent long-weekend on this season’s Professional Series.

D) In the event that players still can’t be separated, the players involved may have to contest a playoff – the details of which would be decided by the Ultimate Pool Group.

Should an issue arise that is not covered above, the decision of the Ultimate Pool Group will be final.

The Ultimate Pool Group has the right to alter the above in exceptional circumstances.

2022

With the Professional Series in 2022 expanding to 48 players, the top 16 ranked players at the end of the 2021 campaign will go straight into the last 32 of all Professional Series events in 2022. The remaining players outside of the top 16 will all need to play in the preliminary round.