A total of 32 players qualified for finishing in the top 4 positions in eight groups.
They were drawn into a 32 player knock-out bracket to decide the winner.
Source: Snooker Scene[1] Reanne Evans, the 2004 champion, did not enter the event.
There were twenty entries, and two qualifying groups of ten players were set, each to be played as a round-robin, with the top four from each group qualifying for the eight-player knock-out phase to decide the winner.
Wendy Jans scored nine of the eleven top breaks in the competition on her way to winning the title.