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With the ultimate goal of gaining cue
sport affiliation to the USOC US
Olympic Committee, the American CueSports Alliance
(ACS)
is very pleased to announce a
very significant restructuring within the
United
States for all three recognized disciplines of billiards
Carom, Pool and
Snooker.
Firstly, both the USBA
United
States
Billiard Association
(Carom) and the USSA
United
States
Snooker Association (Snooker)
formally agreed to be represented by the ACS within the international billiard
structure.
Having now met the requirements under IOC International Olympic
Committee continental structural guidelines, the
CPB
- Panamerican Billiard Confederation
accepted and notified the appropriate world governing bodies of the
ACS as its newest member. The
ACS was then granted a certificate issued on
February 2, 2007
by the CPB
that formally recognizes the ACS as the governing body in the Billiard Sport
in all their modalities Carom, Pool and Snooker, in the
United
States of America
territory.
The
CPB represents the
Americas in the international billiard structure through
its confederation membership to both the world governing body for carom the Union Mondiale de Billard
(UMB) and the world governing
body for pool the World
Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).
The
CPB now has twenty-two national federations
throughout the Americas, twelve of which already have attained
affiliation to their respective National Olympic Committees. This
includes the CBSA - Canadian Billiard & Snooker
Association, who, on behalf of
Canada, coordinated its application to the
CPB with that of the ACS
and received similar official
recognition at the same time.
As a
next step, this now sets the stage for the CPB to lobby on our behalf for the inclusion of cue
sports into the 2011 Pan American
Games in Jalisco, Mexico. The
Pan American Games are
produced every four years by PASO
- Pan American Sports Organization, who within the IOC has represented
the National Olympic Committees of all countries in the
Americas, since 1948.
The ACS has a board
composed of independent League
Operators, Referees, Room Owners and the primary non-profit Cue Sport Associations such as
the United States
Billiard Association, the United States Snooker
Association, the National
Wheelchair Poolplayers Association and others, so that the future
promotion of cue sports in the United
States can work in unison for the common
good.
The ACS, as the
official national governing body for all cue sports in the
United
States, will provide:
·
League Sanctioning for amateur players.
·
Referee and Coaching accreditation.
·
Junior Programs and support for the Billiard
Education Foundation (BEF)
·
Room Owner representation.
·
Tournament Sanctioning.
·
Support for the production of National Championships
by which athletes are selected to represent the
United
States in World Championships and other
International Competition in the billiard disciplines of Pool, Snooker and
Carom.
Further information on the
ACS is
available at www.americancuesports.org. | 