Silver Practice Challenge - Snooker Academy

Guide

The Silver Practice Challenge is for players who have made a fifty break at the ‘Standard Line Up’ routine.

Here is a video showing how to use the Practice Challenges pages.

Silver Leaderboard

To show on the leaderboard you must have a Standard Line Up break score of between 50 and 99 entered!

wdt_ID	Name	Reds One Eleven	Colours 100	Red Black 120	Standard Line Up	T Line Up	Rest Pots	Smelly Shots Twenty	Fifteen Straight Reds	Cross Double Safety	Shot to Nothing	Total Points
7	Freddie Turner	9	41	40	51	43	8	11	5	7	10	225
14	Ben Scammell	10	31	25	95	68	5	9	4	7	7	261
15	Will Brown	15	152		97		9	12	9			294
18	Dave Tuckett	15	83	49	67		7	15	8	8	11	263
23	Tony Lyles	15	53	80	72		5	11	6	9	9	260
24	Jason Stedman	15	100	112	88							315
26	Connor McQuillan	15	77	56	62	51	7	16	11	12	14	321
49	Oscar Mungins	12	59	40	58	49	8	17	9	7	9	268
82	James Collingwood	15	68	64	59		6	9	8	8	12	249
93	Terry Harrison	11	40	80	68	58	6					263
127	Tony Bispham				51		5					56
179	Oscar Mungins	13	100	40	69	102	8	17				349
182	Seth Charters				50							50
184	Andy Savage	13	70	40	87	58	4	13	1			286
196	Shruthi L	12	91	49	78	24	7	12	7	8	9	297
211	Ellise Scott	8	14	32	99	55						208
260	Andrew Mackie	15		32	86							133
287	Amit Kanabar	14	53	40	81	46	6	15	4			259
305	Archie Greier				89							89
307	Jamie Wright	15			64							79

Best Scores

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Routines

Reds One Eleven

Set up 3 lines of five reds in the top half of the table.

With the cue-ball placed for the first shot only, clear the reds.

Maximum Score 15

Colours 100

Spot the colours.

With the cue-ball placed for the first shot only and making sure to not pot the same colour in a row, make a 100 break.

Maximum Score 15

Red Black 120

Spot the black and position a red half way between the pink and black spots and another half way between the black and top cushion.

Placing the cue-ball behind a red to start and replacing both the reds and black when potted, pot 15 reds, 15 blacks in sequence.

Maximum score 120

Standard Line Up

Spot the colours and evenly line up fifteen reds.

With the cue-ball placed for the first shot only, clear the table.

Maximum Score 147

T-Line Up

Spot the colours and position the fifteen reds as shown to form a T shape.

With the cue-ball placed for the first shot only, clear the table.

Maximum Score 147

Rest Pots

As shown, evenly line up five reds each side of the pink spot.

With the cue-ball placed between the middle pockets each time, straight pot each red into its nearest top corner pocket using the rest.

Award a point for each red potted. Maximum score is 10.

Smelly Shots Twenty

Spot the blue, pink and black then line up tens reds in a diagonal across the top of the table.

With the cue-ball played within two balls width of the side cushion each time, straight pot the five reds below the pink into the corner pocket and the five reds above into the middle pocket. Repeat, this time playing the cue-ball from tight under the cushion each time.

Award a point for each red potted. Maximum score is 20.

Fifteen Straight Reds

Evenly line up fifteen reds across the centre of the table with the middle red on the blue spot.

With the cue-ball placed on the baulk line each time, straight pot each red into the nearest top corner pocket.

Award a point for each red potted. Maximum score is 15.

Cross Double safety

Spot the colours then evenly line five reds a balls width from a top side cushion.

With the cue-ball played from behind the baulk line each time, cross double each red, bringing the cue-ball back to rest behind the baulk line. Repeat putting the five reds on the other side of the table.

Award a point each time some part of the cue ball comes back to rest behind the baulk line. (For shot to count no reds must come into the baulk half of the table). Note score then repeat challenge by putting reds on other side of the table.

Maximum score is 10.

Shot to Nothing

Tightly space five reds below the pink so they are in line with the top corner pocket.

Playing the cue-ball from behind the baulk line each time, pot each red bringing the cue-ball back behind the baulk line.

Award two points when a red is potted and when missed still award one point if the cue-ball comes back to rest behind the baulk line. (For the shot to count, no reds must come into the baulk half of the table and all of the cue-ball must come to rest behind the baulk line). Note score then repeat challenge putting reds on other side of the table.

Maximum score is 20.

Here is a video of Cuestars Under-21 Silver Tour player Tyler Beer scoring 11 points at this routine.