BWA World Cup Events

November 1986 marked the first BWA World Cup tournament. The organization's mission was to promote the game through wonderful tournaments featuring the very best players in the world, all the while working with the press and sponsors to keep billiards in the public eye. The BWA was successful in building much of what we know of billiards today. Unfortunately, petty politics stemming from the Union Mondial de Billar (UMB) consumed a large amount of money over several years throughout the 1990s making it very difficult for the BWA to realize its long term plans. Today, the BWA still exists but is going through a reorganization, leaving the UMB as the only global governing body of billiards. Since the fall of the BWA, prize money is at a twenty year low, and not more than a handful of professional players can make a living at the game.

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