 Complete the following phrase:  In 2015, Allen was successful in Q School and earned a tour card for the 201516 and 201617 seasons by beating Alex Taubman 42 in his final match of Event 2. He won his first match as a professional by beating Adam Edge 53 in Australian Goldfields Open qualifying, but lost 51 to Jamie Burnett in the second round. Allen saw off Barry Pinches and Aditya Mehta both 51 in the qualifying rounds for the Shanghai Masters, before losing by a reversal of this scoreline to Li Hang. He made his debut at the venue stage of a ranking event in York for the UK Championship and was defeated 61 by Liang Wenbo. Allen then lost 15 successive matches from August 2015 until the start of the 201617 season, when he beat Kurt Maflin 43 to qualify for the 