Here is the announcement by WST:

Halo World Championship Qualifiers Draw

The draw for the qualifying rounds of the Halo World Championship has been made, with 128 players set to compete for 16 coveted spots at the Crucible….

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Click here for the draw

The qualifiers for snooker’s biggest event run from April 7 to 16 at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Players enter at different stages depending on where they are seeded, as follows:

Round one pits players ranked 81 to 112 against those ranked 113 to 144.

In round two, those 32 winners will face players ranked 49 to 80.

In round three, those 32 winners will face players ranked 17 to 48.

In round four, those 32 winners play each other, with the 16 winners going through to the Crucible. 

Round four is known as Judgement Day, with places at the Crucible at stake. As always, you’ll be able to watch our special production live and free on April 15 and 16, this time it will be on WST Play. The draw for the final stages will then take place on the morning of April 17, on BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website.

New sensation Michał Szubarczyk, age just 14 from Poland, will make his debut in the event against Dean Young, and if he wins that match he’ll face fellow teenager Stan Moody in round two. World Women’s Champion Bai Yulu, who reached Judgement Day at the Victorian Plumbing UK Championship in November, will be up against Liam Highfield. 

Former UK Champion Zhao Xintong will take on Ka Wai Cheung, while legend Jimmy White still start against Ukraine’s Anton Kazakov.  

Star names in round three will include the likes of Ali Carter, Stuart Bingham, Jack Lisowski, Hossein Vafaei, Stephen Maguire, Gary Wilson, Chris Wakelin and David Gilbert.  

Seedings 17-22 are yet to be confirmed, and are listed in the draw as seeding positions rather than names. Wu Yize can still climb into the top 16 if he reaches the final of next week’s Sportsbet.io Tour Championship. Once the seeding positions are confirmed, those names will be added to the draw.

Fans with an annual WST Play subscription will be able to attend the  qualifiers for free, with one free ticket per day for each member. A unique link will be sent out to subscribers on April 1^st for fans to redeem their tickets.

If you haven’t been able to secure a golden ticket for the final stages, this is a superb opportunity to be a part of snooker’s biggest event. Act quickly to secure your tickets, as demand is expected to be higher than ever!

Let’s have a look at each quarter …

Quarter 1

Seed 17 is currently Xiao Guodong.

In this section, my picks of the first round are two matches:

• Artemijs Zizins v Dylan Emery … Dylan has more experience and is older than Artemijs who is only 18 but Artemijs has a good temperament and I like his game. This season so far, as an amateur he had more wins on Tour defeats and, notably, beat Mark Joyce, David Grace and Matt Selt.
• Duane Jones v Florian Nüßle… Florian has already done the “main job”, he’s certain to be on tour next season. Duane Jones is in the first year of his current tour card, so he will not be under the biggest pressure, however he will be aware that during this season he has lost more matches than he has won. Therefore he will want do well in Sheffield. There are a lot of points to be gained if he wins a couple. If he doesn’t, he faces a though task next season.

Seed 20 is Neil Robertson and seed 21 is David Gilbert. There are a few intriguing first round matches in this section, notably Ben Mertens v Daniel Womersley, Sunny Akani v Kreishh Gurbaxani and Alex Ursenbacher v Paul Deaville, but I guess that all eyes will be on Zhao Xintong. The way he’s played on the Q-Tour I wouldn’t be surprised if he made it to the Crucible. All his potential opponents on his route to Judgement Days are Chinese. I expect the usual brigade on twitter to shout “max fixing” at some point because they always do when Chinese players compete against each other. Even if Zhao was actually approached, I very much doubt that he would be tempted. He was 1000% determined to regain his tour card at the Q-Tour, he secured it, he won’t be taking any risks or liberties.

Currently, seed 19 is Tom Ford and seed 22 is Jack Lisowski … We could have a “blitzkrieg” between Theppy and Jack on judgment days. That would be something!

Now regarding the first round, I will of course hope that Julien Leclercq progresses. Julien had a poor season TBH. I expect Jimmy to beat Anton Kazakov. Experience matters.

Also, I do not expect it, but I hope that Iulian Boiko can beat Andrew Pagett. Whoever wins that one will face Louis Heathcote and, should they win, Joe O’Connor. That’s a very, very hard section.

In this last section, seed 18 is Jak Jones. How last year’s runner-up finds himself in this situation – having to qualify – is beyond me. That said, Jak is really a long format player. Short matches don’t suit him at all and that’s what you get in first rounds more often than not, alas.

The two women on tour are in this section and on course to meet each other in round 2 should they win their first match … which I don’t expect TBH. Bai is the better of the two but faces Liam Highfield who just won the EBSA championship. Mink has done very little this season and is due to play a very hard and very experienced opponent in Ian Burns.

Young Michal Szubarczyk will face Dean Young in round 1, and, should he wins, he would play Stan Moody in round 2. That would be interesting. Can he win? We shall see. Lets just say this … unless I missed something, other than at the shoot-out, Dean young has never got past qualifiers round 2 in any main tour event since he turned pro four years ago. That said his style of play may not suit young Michal.