Snooker Shoot Out's promotion to ranking event met with anger from some players

"Absolutely nuts. A huge slap in the face to any player who has actually won a proper ranking event"

Neil Robertson and Mark Allen have expressed their disgust at the decision to make the Snooker Shoot Out a ranking event from next season.

The format, in which matches are decided over a solitary 10-minute frame, has several different variants to the traditional game, including a shot clock of 15 seconds per shot for the first five minutes and 10 seconds thereafter.