2012 International Championship

The 2012 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 28 October and 4 November 2012 at the Sichuan International Tennis Center in Chengdu, China. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2012/2013 season. It was named as the "first overseas 'major'", as the tournament had the same level of ranking points as the UK Championship.

Judd Trump won the third ranking title of his career by defeating Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final. Trump also became the world number one as a result of reaching the final.

Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


 * Winner: £125,000
 * Runner-up: £62,500
 * Semi-final: £30,000
 * Quarter-final: £17,500
 * Last 16: £12,000
 * Last 32: £7,000
 * Last 48: £3,000
 * Last 64: £1,500


 * Non-televised highest break: £500
 * Televised highest break: £2,000
 * Total: £600,000

Wildcard round
These matches were played in Chengdu on 28 and 29 October 2012.

Qualifying
These matches took place between 19 and 22 August 2012 at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, England.

Qualifying stage centuries

 * 143, 108 – Andrew Higginson
 * 136 – Dominic Dale
 * 134, 102 – David Gilbert
 * 132 – Barry Hawkins
 * 130, 121 – Aditya Mehta
 * 129 – Tian Pengfei
 * 125 – Barry Pinches
 * 123 – Dechawat Poomjaeng
 * 121 – Daniel Wells
 * 120, 114 – Anthony McGill
 * 119 – Jamie Burnett
 * 119 – Marco Fu


 * 117, 115, 113, 105 – Pankaj Advani
 * 117 – Li Yan
 * 113 – Scott Donaldson
 * 112 – Andy Hicks
 * 109 – Ian Burns
 * 108 – Passakorn Suwannawat
 * 104 – Rod Lawler
 * 104 – Zhang Anda
 * 103 – Paul Davison
 * 102, 102 – Michael White
 * 101 – Liam Highfield
 * 101 – Jamie Jones

Televised stage centuries

 * 142, 137, 118, 115, 100 – Neil Robertson
 * 138 – Mark Davis
 * 134 – Lu Ning
 * 132 – Robert Milkins
 * 129, 108, 103 – Shaun Murphy
 * 129 – Aditya Mehta
 * 128, 103 – Ding Junhui
 * 124, 121, 104 – Mark Allen


 * 119, 118, 107 – Judd Trump
 * 118, 102 – Stephen Maguire
 * 113 – Ricky Walden
 * 111 – Zhao Xintong
 * 110 – Cao Yupeng
 * 108 – Dominic Dale
 * 106 – Peter Ebdon