1. Overview

2. Member countries

3. World Eightball Pool Championship

4. See also

5. References

The World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) is an international pool (pocket billiards) governing body overseeing international (principally British, Commonwealth, and continental European) tournaments and rankings in eightball pool (a game similar to eight-ball but played with red and yellow unnumbered balls instead of the stripes and solids numbered balls). WEPF competes for authority and membership with the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), which produces its own tournaments and slightly different rules under the game name blackball.

Overview

The WEPF is the governing body of the sport of eightball pool mostly competed across continental Europe and the Commonwealth. The governing body runs its own world championships, different to those held by the WPA. WEPF competes for authority and membership with the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), which produces its own tournaments and slightly different rules under the game name blackball.

Each country under WEPF (World Eightball Pool Federation) has their own Referee/umpire body. Each country has their own qualification structure in place for grading referees, for instance South Africa has three basic certificates - League Referee, Provincial Referee, National Referee to name the basic few. Australia is also most complimented on their good governance and structure of their referee/umpire body.

The rules of the game is available on WEPF's website with calling procedures and guidance.

WEPF was established in 1992 by founding member countries Australia, England, and New Zealand.

Member countries

• {{Flag|Australia}} - Australian Eight Ball Federation
• {{Flag|Belgium}}
• {{Flag|China}}
• {{Flag|Cyprus}}
• {{Flag|England}} - English Pool Association
• {{Flag|France}} and Reunion Island
• {{Flag|Guernsey}}
• {{Flag|India}}
• {{Flag|Ireland}}
• {{Flag|Japan}}
• {{Flag|Malta}}
• {{Flag|Mauritius}}
• {{Flag|Morocco}}
• {{Flag|New Zealand}} - Clubs New Zealand 8Ball
• {{Flag|Northern Ireland}}
• {{Flag|Portugal}}
• {{Flag|Scotland}}
• {{Flag|South Africa}} - Pool South Africa
• {{Flag|Wales}}

World Eightball Pool Championship

The WEPF World Eightball Pool Championship (sometimes branded the Foster's World Eightball Pool Championship for sponsorship purposes) is held annually, and features open, women's, and juniors' divisions. The tournaments are regularly held at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, England. The competition includes players from Europe and from further afield, including Australia and South Africa.^[1]

The 2010 men's champion was England's Mick Hill who beat fellow countryman and three-time champion Gareth Potts 11–8 in the Final. In the 2010 ladies' event, Sue Thompson of Scotland defeated Northern Ireland's Emma Cunningham 8–4.^[2] Thompson was an eight-time ladies' world champion as of 2008, when first-time finalist Lynette Horsburgh, a BBC writer, beat Thompson in the semi-final,^[1] and took first place in that division in an 8–6 final against fellow first-timer Barbara Taylor.^[3]

See also

• List of World Eight-ball Champions

References

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• The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
• The Secret Policeman's Ball mediagraphy
• The Secret Policeman's Balls (DVD box set)
• The Secret Policeman's Balls releases
• The Secret Policeman's Third Ball
• The Secret Public Years 1981-1989
• The Secret Radio Project
• The Secret Rapture
• The Secret Rapture (film)
• The Secret Rapture (play)
• The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews
• The Secret relationship between Blacks and Jews
• The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews: Volume One
• The Secrets
• The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun
• The Secret School
• The Secret Scripture
• The Secret Series
• The Secret Series (Enid Blyton)
• The Secret Servant (Lyall novel)
• The secret Show
• The Secret Sisters
• The Secret (Smetana)
• The Secret Society – Boss