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World Structure in Cue Sports
This is a sketch I found on rec.sport.billiard. It was posted by Oliver Geisser, who found it in European Billiard News, an official publication of the European Pool Billiard Federation.
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| INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITEE |
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-------- --------- ----------------
| WCBS | ..... | GAISF | .... | Other Sports |
-------- --------- ----------------
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|-----|----------------------|
| | |
Pool | | Carambol | Snooker
-------- | | ------- | -------
| WPA |-- --- | UMB | ------| WSF |
-------- ------- -------
| | BWA | WPBSA
| | CIBA | IBSF
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|------------------|----------------|-------------|----------|
| | | | |
| | | | |
-------------- ---------------- ------------ ------------ *
| European | | Australien | | Asian | | Billiard |
| Pocket | | Pool | | Pocket | | Congress |
| Billiard | | Association | | Billiard | | of |
| Federation | | | | Union | | America |
-------------- ---------------- ------------ ------------
Austria Australia Indonesia Canada
Germany New Zealand Japan Puerto Rico
France Korea United States
England Philippines
Sweden Taiwan In Formation:
.... Singapore Mexico
.... Malaysia
(many more)
*) I leave South American Billiard Confederation, cause they
are in formation
WBCS = World Confederation of Billiard Sports
GAISF = General Association of International Sports Federation
WPA = World Pool-Billiard Association
UMB = Union Mondiale de Billard
WSF = World Snooker Federation (Consortium or "Ghost Federation")
BWA = Billiard World Cup
CIBA = Confederation Internationale de Billard Artistique
WPBSA = World Professional Billiard & Snooker Association
IBSF = International Billiard & Snooker Federation
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