It's part of the tour and always has been. Costs £100 per day entry but there's £30k prize fund each day I think - 10k winner. The whole ranking systems are done on prize money. You can only go as a guest of a player and they're only allowed 2 each so hence there's not many watching. I got to...
There's a number of possible reasons. It has indeed been moved to Holland (expect RVB to get another totally undeserved place) and they prob chose Brighton as it's close to London (or 'South East' in their eyes) and the Worlds are there as well as (I assume) the Prem League final. They usually /...
Would love to see Gary do it again as he's a sound fella. Went to a players champs in Coventry recently and Gary won on the Sunday and played some amazing stuff. Ones to look out for outside the big big names:
Suljovic
Mark Webster
Michael Smith
Gerwyn Price
Jelle Klassen