The Australian Eight Ball Federation (or Eight Ball Federation Incorporated), formed in 1983
is the governing body in
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
for the sport of
eight-ball pool, a
cue sport
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions of ...
also standardised under the name ''blackball'', and distinct from the American-style game of
eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...
, itself subject to
international competition.
Australia became a founding member in 1992 of the
World Eightball Pool Federation
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 s ...
.
The federation holds annual championships for team and individual for men's and ladies representation for Australia at the annual world championships.
Member organisations
Founding Members (1983):
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...
– Northern Territory Eightball Association
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Queensland
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– Queensland Eight Ball Federation
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
– Eight-Ball Association of SA
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Tasmania
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–
Eightball Tasmania
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Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
– Pool Victoria
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Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
– West Australian Eightball Federation (Inc)
Later members:
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New South Wales
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, established_title = Before federation
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(1987) – NSW 8 Ball Federation
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Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships. ...
(1990) – ACT Eight Ball Association (ACTEBA)
See also
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Cue sports in Australia
References
External links
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Pool organizations
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