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The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker. [6] [5] The confederation was formed in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, on January 25, 1992.
The Australian Eight Ball Federation (or Eight Ball Federation Incorporated), formed in 1983 [1] is the governing body in Australia for the sport of eight-ball pool, a cue sport also standardised under the name blackball, and distinct from the American-style game of eight-ball, itself subject to international competition.
Australian cue sports people (4 C) S. Snooker in Australia (2 C) Pages in category "Cue sports in Australia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.
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Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails , into which balls are shot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball , blackball , nine-ball , ten-ball , seven-ball , straight pool , one-pocket , and bank pool .
The study found that 183 participated in sports. Billiards was tied with eight other activities as the ninth most popular sports in which these women participated, with 3 having played the sport. [4] [clarification needed] Ruby Roberts was an Australian professional billiards player during the 1910s and 1920s. She returned to Australia in 1926. [5]
The World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional snooker tournament established in 1952 as an alternative to the professional World Snooker Championship by some of the professional players, following a dispute with the Billiards Association and Control Council, the sport's governing body.