Grand Prix

The Grand Prix, currently referred to as the Royal London Watches Grand Prix for sponsorship purposes, is a professional snooker ranking tournament. It has previously been known as the Professional Players Tournament and the LG Cup. During 2006 and 2007, it was played in a unique round-robin format, more similar to association football and rugby tournaments than the knock-out systems usually played in snooker. The knock-out format returned in 2008 with an FA Cup-style draw. For the 2011 event, world number one Mark Selby and World Champion Ali Carter were seeded 1 and 2, and the other 30 entrants were shuffled and put into a random draw. In 2012, seedings were abandoned, as the 32 entrants (the top 16 players in the world and 16 qualifiers) were put into four groups of eight, with the top two players in each group at the end of the phase proceeding to the quarter-finals. In 2013, the random draw returned.

The reigning champion is Ian McCulloch.