The World Snooker Tour makes annual awards in several categories, including player of the year, and established a Hall of Fame in 2011.
[3] From 1985, the awards were taken over by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
[4] In 1998, the journalists' group was reformed as the Snooker Writers' Association, and the awards were in that body's name for several years.
[5][6] The awards are now administered by the World Snooker Tour.
[2] The World Snooker hall of fame was instituted in 2011, with eight winners of multiple world snooker championships as the initial inductees.