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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.
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls). The object balls include ...
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.
WEPF logo. The World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) is an international pool governing body overseeing international tournaments and rankings in the British-originating variant of eight-ball pool played with red and yellow unnumbered balls instead of the stripes and solids numbered balls.
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 ...
Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Traditional sports, such as sumo and martial arts, as well as Western imports like baseball, association football, basketball and tennis are popular with both participants and spectators.
Orcollo won the 2011 Derby City Classic nine-ball, beating American player Shane Van Boening 7–2 in the final. [18] Orcollo also won the Predator International Ten-ball Championship for the second time after he beat Mika Immonen of Finland 10–8. [19] Orcollo was named the 2011 WPA player of year. [20]
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.