WPA 8 Ball World Championship

The WPA 8-Ball World Cup is the World Pool-Billiard Association hosted world championship in billiards discipline 8-Ball .

The WPA's 8-Ball World Championships should not be confused with the competing Blackball World Championships of the WEPF and the WPA.

history

The 8-ball world championship took place mostly annually from 2004 to 2012 and was held at the Fujairah Bustan Center in Fujairah ( United Arab Emirates ). A total of US $ 120,000 in prize money was distributed to the 64 participants , of which US $ 25,000 went to the winner. In October 2016, the WPA announced that the 8-ball World Cup would be held again from 2017, now in the Chinese provincial capital, Jinan .

The tournaments at a glance

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists
2004	Fujairah	Efren Reyes		Marlon Manalo	Francisco Bustamante
					Alex Pagulayan
2005		Wu Chia-Ching		Nick van den Berg	Francisco Bustamante
					Niels Feijen
2007		Ronato Alcano	11: 8	Dennis Orcollo	Niels Feijen
					Joven Bustamante
2008		Ralf Souquet	13: 9	Ronato Alcano	Marcus Chamat
					Dennis Orcollo
2010		Karl Boyes	13:12	Niels Feijen	Ruslan Tschinachow
					Darren Appleton
2011		Dennis Orcollo	10: 3	Niels Feijen	David Alcaide
					Darren Appleton
2012		Chang Jung-Lin	11: 6	Fu Che-wei	Chris Melling
					Liu Haitao

Ranking list

space	player
1	Dennis Orcollo	1	1	1
2	Ronato Alcano	1	1	0
3	Efren Reyes	1	0	0
	Wu Chia-Ching	1	0	0
	Ralf Souquet	1	0	0
	Karl Boyes	1	0	0
	Chang Jung-Lin	1	0	0

Web links

• WPA World 8-Ball Championship on azbilliards.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World 8-Ball Championship 2017. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, October 12, 2016, archived from the original on October 16, 2016 ; accessed on October 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ World Champions. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, archived from the original on June 18, 2012 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.