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Merit points were awarded to players who were required to compete in qualifying rounds of ranking tournaments and reached the last 32, with a full merit point awarded if this was achieved in the world championship, and half a merit point otherwise.{{sfn|Morrison|1987|p=107}}{{sfn|Everton|1985|pp=14–15}} No points were awarded to a player who did not win any matches in a given tournament: for example, a top 16 player seeded into the last 32 of the world championship would not win any merit points if they lost their first match.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=How they stand: official world rankings 1985 |magazine=[[Snooker Scene]] |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |pages=18–19 |date=June 1984 }}</ref><ref name="SNSRANK">{{cite magazine |title=World rankings and how they earned them |magazine=[[Snooker Scene]] |publisher=Everton's News Agency |location=Birmingham |pages=18–19 |date=July 1985 }}</ref>
The journalist Janice Hale commented in March 1985 that as the ranking list was updated only annually, players such as [[John Spencer (snooker player)|John Spencer]] who had won only one match in the year since the 1984 World Championship, and [[Bill Werbeniuk]], who had not won any, were at an advantage over other players who had performed better in that time, as the top 16 received direct enty to the last-32 round of the 1985 World Championship, meaning that their minimum guaranteed prize money was higher.<ref>{{cite news |first=Janice |last=Hale |newspaper=The Observer |date=3 March 1985 |page=46 |title=Seeds that are not always hardy annuals |url=https://www
== Points tariff ==
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