Featuring only the top 16 players in the world at the time of the event, The Masters is one of snooker's most prestigious, exciting and hotly contested tournaments.
It's also the first significant event of the calendar year and the second Triple Crown competition of the season as we move towards the World Championship in the spring.
Ronnie O'Sullivan will look to defend his 2024 title, won by defeating Ali Carter in the final 12 months ago.
However, his defence of the other Triple Crown event so far this season, the UK Championship, ended in a first-round defeat to Barry Hawkins and the face of the sport will strive to avoid a similar fate when he meets John Higgins to kick off the 2025 Masters in earnest.
Hawkins went all the way to the final in December after ousting O'Sullivan but lost to Judd Trump. Now, fate has brought the two together once again when they meet in the Masters first round.
Here's a rundown of the bracket and schedule in full.
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The tournament kicks off on January 12, 2025 and concludes with the final on January 19, 2025.
The event takes place at London's Alexandra Palace, the recent host of Luke Littler's phenomenal win aged just 17 at the PDC World Darts Championship.
The Masters has traditionally been an invitation event for the top 16 players in the world, and that remained the case in 2025.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is the defending champion from 2024. He remains ranked No. 1 and is seeded as such for his title defence.
The 16 players invited per their ranking prior to the event are as follows (number denotes seed, nationality in brackets):
Unlike many other ranking tournaments that use qualification stages to allow lower-ranked or amateur players to try to make the cut, the Masters is strictly for the best 16 players in the world and operates on a one-table format throughout the event.
Quarterfinals will be staged on Thursday, January 16 and Friday, January 17 at 1 p.m. GMT and 7 p.m. GMT, with the exact match order to be determined.
Ronnie O'Sullivan, the defending champion heading into the 2025 tournament, is the all-time leader in Masters wins with a total of eight titles.
He leads fellow great Stephen Hendry, who won six. Steve Davis, Cliff Thorburn and Paul Hunter each have three wins. The trophy awarded to the winner has since 2016 been named the Paul Hunter Trophy, following the Englishman's unfortunate passing due to neuroendocrine tumours in 2006.