The inaugural ÖSBV Champions Cup, where the ultimate ÖSBV Champion will be determined from among the most successful ÖSBV athletes of the 2024 season, will take place on April 26 and 27, 2025, at the Austrian Snooker and Billiards Academy in Vienna.

Athletes from all ÖSBV categories who won titles or tournaments during the 2024 national Snooker and Billiards season were invited to this elite event. Wildcards were also awarded to complete the 24-player starting field, based on the final rankings of the 2024 Snooker General Class.

For the draw, which will take place online via Zoom on April 23, 2025, participants were seeded into pots based on the value of their titles and tournament wins. Titles and categories are ranked as follows:
Titles: 1. Austrian (National) champions, 2. season’s top-ranked players, 3. winners of Grand Prix/Masters/U21 tournaments, 4. other tournament winners, 5. wildcards
Categories: 1. Grand Prix, 2. Masters, 3. Under 21, 4. Women, 5. Doubles

Within a category, rankings are based on the final rankings of that respective category. Wildcards are exclusively determined by the final rankins of the Snooker General Class.

Pot A – National champions, season top-ranked-players, winners of Grand Prix/Masters/U21 & other tournament winners: 1 Hans Nirnberger | 2 Stephanie Doležal | 3 Thomas Janzso | 4 Jérôme Liedtke | 5 Christian Hochmayer | 6 Daniel Seyser | 7 Garry Balter | 8 Oskar Charlesworth

Pot B – other tournament winners: 9 Patrick Stift | 10 Mike Busse | 11 Thomas Brandl | 12 Emanuel Stegmeier | 13 Florian Toth | 14 Fabian Rapp | 15 Christian Gimpl | 16 Fidan Krasniqi

Pot C – other tournament winners & wildcards: 17 Mario Bodlos | 18 Emil Becker | 19 Josef Wimmer | 20 Philipp Koch |
21 Peyman Chitsaz | 22 Christian Kasparek | 23 Carl Walter Steiner | 24 Tajmeet Grover

Group draw positions A to H on the bracket:
A  –  B  –  C  –  D  –  E  –  F  –  G  –  H
01 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 05 – 06 – 07 – 08
16 – 15 – 14 – 13 – 12 – 11 – 10 – 09
17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24

Example of the draw:
If the player with number 1 from Pot A is assigned number 05, they will be the top seed in Group E. If the player with number 13 from Pot B is assigned number 09, they will be the second seed in Group H, and so on.

The exact time of the draw will be announced at least one hour in advance on the ÖSBV Facebook page. The draw will be conducted online via Zoom.

Title photograph: ÖSBV Champions Cup banner; ©ösbv