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
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 ...
and
nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
.
The ACS's stated mission is "to heighten the interest and awareness of cue sports through the support and sanctioning of organized competition throughout the United States and North America." The ACS is headquartered in
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...
.
Canadian Cue Sport Association
The ACS has a Canadian affiliate organization, the Canadian Cue Sport Association (CCS). There is an annual ACS/CCS international championship in
Las Vegas, Nevada, held in May. CCS is also affiliated with the
Canadian Billiards and Snooker Association
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
(CBSA).
See also
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List of professional sports leagues
External links
ACS website
Pool leagues
Sports leagues in the United States
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