Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 2012 Welsh Open ya ga Burns ya cancanci zuwa na biyu na gasar, yayin da ya ci Jack Lisowski 4<unk>1 kafin ya karbi tafiya saboda janyewar Jamie Cope. A babban wurin da ke Newport, ya yi rashin nasara a cikin 32 na ƙarshe zuwa gwarzon duniya na 2010 Neil Robertson 1 <unk> 4. Burns kuma yana da kyakkyawar kakar wasa a cikin ƙananan wasannin Players Tour Championship, tare da mafi kyawun kammalawa yana zuwa a taron Turai na biyar
, inda ya doke Marcus Campbell da Liang Wenbo, amma sai ya rasa Ding Junhui a wasan kusa da na karshe. Ya kuma kai wasan karshe na 16 a wasu wasanni guda biyu wadanda suka taimaka masa ya gama 35 a kan PTC Order of Merit, a waje da manyan 26 da suka cancanci zuwa wasan karshe. Burns ya doke Joel Walker 10<unk>8 a zagaye na farko na Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya, amma lokacinsa ya ƙare lokacin da Yu Delu ya ci shi 2<unk>10 a zagaye na gaba. An ba Burns kyautar Rookie na Shekara