Fast, furious and crazy … don’t take it too seriously. The shootout is back with its 10 mins-1 frame matches, a 15 sec shot-clock for the first 5 minutes and only 10 sec for the remaining 5 minutes. Random draw in each row. This is meant to be havoc. Jack, Liang and Yu entered the circus, only Jack survives to the final day, but lost to Micael holt in the last 16.

The qualifying rounds of the China Open 2013 start on January 9, 2013 and are played over 4 days. All active Grove players will take part except for Judd who is seeded. Jack and Wenbo qualified for the venue and Sleepy reached the last 48. More detailed results here

The qualifying stages of the last EPTC of the 2012/13 season were played in Sheffield on November 26 and 27, 2012. The television stage is now played in Munich, Germany, from Friday, January 4 on. Judd has decided to give it a miss. On the first qualifying day Wenbo managed to book his place place in Munich come the new year. Jack joined him on the second day. Both lost in the last 16.

The qualifying rounds for the Haikou World Open 2013 are held in the Academy in Sheffield from December 18 till December 21, 2012. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Li Yan, Liang Wenbo, Yu Delu and Zhang Anda are competing and trying to book their place in the television stages. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Yu Delu and Zhang Anda reached the final round, but none of them managed to qualify for the venue.

All active Grove players except for Judd Trump are heading to Ravenscraig in Scotland for the last EPTC event of the year. The pros start playing on Friday, December 14. Not the best of tournaments for Grove. After last 128 Wenbo was the last man standing and he booked his place in the Final day. Unfortunately he lost in the last 16

The UK Championship starts on December 1, 2012 in York, and Judd is the defending champion. Everybody will be after him … including fellow Grove players Wenbo and Jack! Wenbo was in action in the first session of the tournament and lost 4-6 to Barry Hawkins despite playing well. Judd’s defense was short lived as he lost to Mark Joyce 5-6.
Listen here to Judd press conference after the match . Things didn’t get better for the Grove team as Jack lost in the last 32 as well, with a 2-6 against Stuart Bingham. Listen to Jack’s reaction after the match

Jack made his first competitive 147 in frame 3 of the UK Championship Qualifiers round 3 today. His Grove fellow player Chen Zhe was sat in the best seat in the room, Eirian Williams was the referee.… Congratulations Jack!

The UK Championship 2012 qualifiers were held in the Academy in Sheffield from November 20th to November 23th, 2012 and Chen Zhe, Li Yan, Liang Wenbo, Jack Lisowski, Yu Delu and Zhang all tried to book their place into the final stages that will be played in York early December. Jack was the first man to join defending champion Judd, and Wenbo soon followed.

The Grove gang headed to Bulgaria for the fourth European PTC event in Sofia. Jack, Judd and Anda were in action on day 1 and Jack and Judd are through to the Finals day. Li Yan and Liang Wenbo joined them on day 2. .Judd was the only one to survive the Sunday early morning start and went to win it beating John Higgins 4-0 in the Final!

The Snooker Lab Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup was played in the SWSA, in Gloucester and nearly all players were wearing pink in support to the fight against breast cancer. That terrible disease killed Kay Suzanne, Paul Mount’s sister, ten years ago so this tournament was very special. All Grove players were competing except for Ronnie who took the decision not to play anymore this season. Judd made the Final again!!! Rematch of the World and Shanghai Masters finals vs John Higgins and unfortunately, same result…