The 2019 Masters was the second Triple Crown event of the 2018/2019 snooker season, after the 2018 UK Championship, and was held between 13 and 20 January 2019.[2] The Masters event is an invitational tournament, with the top 16 competitors from the snooker world rankings competing. Defending champion Mark Allen was seeded first with world champion Mark Williams seeded second. The remaining places were allocated based on the world rankings after the 2018 UK Championship.