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Three-cushion billiards is a difficult game. Averaging one point per inning is usually national-level play, and averaging 1.5 or more is world-class play. An average of 1 means that for every turn at the table, a player point success rate is 50%.
Three-cushion billiards men's singles at the 2022 World Games; Venue: Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, United States: Dates: 13–17 July 2022: Competitors: 16 from 15 nations: Medalists
Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case of nine-ball) for women also at the World Games 2001 in Akita. [1]
Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the ...
The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union Internationale des Federations d'Amateurs de Billard).
The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, ... is only counted in the game with 3 winning sets. This also applies ...
The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place at Mussey’s Billiard Hall in the United States in 1878. The winner was Leon Magnus, who received a cash prize of $75 (equivalent to $2,274 in 2023). However, fans of cue sports were not immediately taken with the new sport of three-cushion billiards.
The cue sports competition at the World Games 2017, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, took place from 26 to 30 July at the Wroclaw Congress Center in Wrocław, Poland. [1]