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The American Poolplayers Association (APA) is a governing body for amateur pool (pocket billiards) competition in the United States. The APA conducts pool leagues and tournaments in the disciplines of eight-ball and nine-ball with a unified ruleset.
Website. VNEA.com. The Valley National 8-Ball League Association ( VNEA) [1] [2] is one of the world's largest amateur pool leagues. As of 2020, 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, towns ...
The United States Professional Poolplayers Association ( UPA) is the governing body for the sport of men's professional pool in the United States, as well as the organizer of a major national amateur league, and a variety of pro and amateur tournaments. The organization, now based in Manhattan, [1] was founded in January 2002 in Arizona by ...
The BCA Pool League (BCAPL) is one of the major amateur pool leagues in the United States and is present in over a dozen other countries outside the U.S., with a significant presence in Canada. Originally operated by the BCA, since 2004 the BCAPL has been owned and operated by billiards event promoter CueSports International (CSI) of Henderson ...
For the 2019 World Pool Masters, the field was changed to accompany 24 players, with seeded players being given a bye through the first round. For the 2022 World Pool Masters went back to its original format, inviting 16 players, with 8 seeded players meeting the other 8 in the first round of the single-elimination tournament. Winners
The American CueSports Alliance (abbreviated ACS) is a non-profit league-sanctioning body for cue sports in the United States. They produce national billiards tournaments on an annual basis, in areas such as eight-ball and nine-ball . The ACS's stated mission is "to heighten the interest and awareness of cue sports through the support and ...
V. Valley National 8-Ball League Association. Categories: Pool organizations. Cue sports leagues.
Round-robin tournament. A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn. [1] [2] A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, wherein participants are eliminated after a certain number of wins or losses.
Major League Gaming Corp. ( MLG) is a professional esports organization. MLG is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso. MLG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States and Canada. The Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit was a television broadcast of Halo 2 MLG ...
List of WPA World Nine-ball champions. 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.