2013 Champion of Champions


The 2013 Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held between 19 and 24 November 2013 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. This was the first time that 888casino sponsored the event, which was broadcast live on ITV4.
The event was last held in 1980, when Doug Mountjoy won in the final 10–8 against John Virgo.
Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 52nd professional title by defeating Stuart Bingham 10–8 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
  • Winner: £100,000
  • Runner-up: £50,000
  • Semi-finals: £20,000
  • Group runner-up: £10,000
  • Group semi-finals: £5,000
  • Total: £270,000

    Players

Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments from the start of the 2012-13 season to the 2013 Indian Open. The important events included all rankings events and winners the following non-rankings events: 2012 Premier League Snooker, 2013 Masters and 2013 Championship League. With only 14 different players winning one of the qualifying events, the remaining two places were allocated to the highest ranked players who had not already qualified.
The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:
SeedPlayerQualified as
1 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Main draw

Final

Century breaks