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This section lists world champions in British-style eight-ball, which exists in a few slight-variant versions (usually referred to as blackball and eightball pool) with different governing bodies. This version is played at the amateur and semi-professional levels in Commonwealth countries and a few continental European nations.
The Valley National 8-Ball League Association (VNEA) [1] [2] is one of the world's largest amateur pool leagues. As of 2020 [update] , there are nearly 100,000 individual members [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in some 1,400 weekly local leagues [ 1 ] [ 2 ] playing in over 10,000 pool halls , bars and other venues [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in around 400 different cities ...
Kemari field at Kyoto Imperial Palace. It is a non-competitive sport. [7] The object of Kemari is to keep one ball in the air, [2] with all players cooperating to do so. Players may use any body part with the exception of arms and hands: their head, feet, knees, back, and depending on the rules, elbows to keep the ball aloft.
The WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a professional eight-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool Association (WPA), initially contested from 2004 to 2012 in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
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The World Chinese Eight-ball Championship (now known as the WPA World Heyball Championship) is a pool tournament in the discipline of Chinese eight-ball. The event has been held annually since 2015, first taking place in Yushan, Jiangxi in China. The tournament is one of the highest-paid pool tournaments in the world.
The B.League is a professional men's basketball league in Japan that began play in September 2016. [4] [5] The league is operated by the Japan Professional Basketball League and was formed as a result of a merger between the National Basketball League that was operated by the FIBA-affiliated Japan Basketball Association and the independently operated bj league.
After a two-year hiatus, the tournament returned as the 2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Doha, Qatar. Francisco Bustamante of the Philippines won the 2010 title. [7] The event was then held annually in Doha through 2019. [8] After not being contested in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the championship resumed in 2021 in Milton Keynes ...