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The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards, organised by World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). In its various forms, and usually as a single competition, the title is one of the oldest sporting world championships ...
The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women, and for the main world championships since this time, with a girl's tournament being created in 2004. In 2013, the men's championship was changed from being inclusive for all [a] to a men's ...
Since 2012 World Billiards has organised the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) plus up to 20 other world ranking tournaments per year. Apart from the World Championship, other major ranking tournaments include the American Cup in Canada, the European Open, the Pacific International in Australia and the Asian Grand Prix in Singapore.
The following is a list of WPA world blackball champions, sanctioned by the World Pool Association (WPA). The blackball rules variant was first discussed by the WPA in a unification meeting in 2004, with rules ratified in 2005 in anticipation of blackball's first world championship in 2006. [ 11 ]
In the summer of 1989, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) began plans for a world championship tournament. The group sent invitations, rules, sports regulations and by-laws. Reception was positive, and a provisional Board was created. [1] In March 1990, the inaugural WPA World Nine-ball Championship was held in Bergheim, Germany. The ...
The IBSF World Billiards Championship (previously known as the World Amateur Billiards Championship) is the premier, international, non-professional tournament for the game of English billiards. Dating to some form to 1951, the event has been sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation since 1973.
World Billiards Championship may refer to: UMB World Three-cushion Championship, a professional tournament in the carom billiards discipline of three-cushion billiards; World Billiards Championship (English billiards), a professional tournament in the game of English billiards; IBSF World Billiards Championship, an amateur tournament in English ...
[3] [4] In January 2020, World Snooker was rebranded as World Snooker Tour. [5] World Billiards supervises the English billiards ranking tournaments and ranking list. [6] It was established as a limited company in 2011, with all shares owned by the WPBSA. [7] World Women's Snooker (WWS) had changed its name from World Ladies Billiards and ...