5 new WPA World Champions shall be topped in Austria this week as Klagenfurt performs host to over 200 billiards stars from all over the world, with $400,000 on the road.

The WPA Predator World 8-Ball Males’s Championship spans the length of a six-day billiards pageant in Europe, operating October 17-22. 96 gamers shall be competing for a champion’s verify of $75,000, the most important financial prize in skilled pool, with Spain’s Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz defending the title he received in Puerto Rico final yr.

The WPA Predator World 10-Ball Girls’s Championship pays the most important prize in ladies’s pool with $45,000 to the winner, whereas all three divisions of the WPA Predator World Junior Championships may have new names etched into the historical past books.

The Predator Professional Billiard Sequence, working alongside Richwert promotions, returns to the picturesque metropolis of Klagenfurt, dwelling of the Jasmin Ouschan Billiard Academy, for a 3rd time however this yr marks the primary staging of the Predator WPA World 8-Ball Males’s Championship within the nation and the primary time all 5 Championships have been held on the identical time.

It’s an enormous endeavor for organizers however one which guarantees to ship on drama, ability and leisure with the world’s greatest gamers descending on the area of Carinthia. Followers can benefit from free entry to the occasion at Sportspark Klagenfurt, and people who can not make it could possibly watch the motion free on the Professional Billiard TV YouTube channel.

Klagenfurt’s personal billiard siblings Jasmin and Albin Ouschan will prime the invoice for a lot of native attendees. Jasmin received the WPA World 10-Ball Girls’s Championship in 2010 and is predicted to be nicely supported as she makes an attempt to wrestle the title from final yr’s champion, Chou Chieh-Yu.

The 2023 Championship will run October 18-22 and options 48 invited gamers, who will start in a race-to-7 double elimination bracket. Play switches to single elimination, race-to-9, from the final 16.

The 96-player invited area for the Predator WPA World 8-Ball Males’s Championship shall be competing for a complete prize fund of $250,000. A race-to-8 double elimination bracket will cut back the sector to 32 gamers who will then face single elimination, race-to-10 to find out the champion.

This would be the ninth staging of the boys’s World 8-Ball Championship. It had beforehand been performed in Fujairah within the United Arab Emirates earlier than being revived from a ten-year hiatus in Puerto Rico final yr.

The Predator WPA World Junior Championships was additionally staged in Puerto Rico final yr however returns to its 2021 venue in Klagenfurt for this yr’s occasion. The four-day competitors runs October 19-22 with three divisions; Beneath-19 Boys, Beneath-17 Boys and Ladies.

Final yr’s Beneath-17s Boys champions Karl Gnadenberg (Estonia) strikes as much as Beneath-19 competitors this yr, nonetheless the defending champion of that division, Szymon Kural of Poland, is simply too previous to return. Chinese language Taipei’s Xin Yu Hong holds the Ladies title and shall be in Austria to defend her title.

10-ball is now the chosen self-discipline for all three divisions and all three will play double elimination till single elimination takes impact for the final 8. Within the Ladies and Beneath-17 boys divisions all matches are race-to-6, whereas the Beneath-19 boys competitors is a race-to-7 all through. 

The occasions are hosted in Austria with the help of the town of Klagenfurt and area of Carinthia, Jasmin Oushan Billiard Academy, Richwert Promotions and Professional Billiard Sequence companions Predator, CSI and Kamui.

All 5 World Championship occasions shall be streamed dwell on Predator Professional Billiard Sequence broadcast platforms. The brand-new Pro Billiard TV YouTube channel and Billiard TV will host desk 1 matches with multi-camera protection and English commentary free to look at all through the occasions. Kozoom.com would be the vacation spot to look at each single match dwell. For extra data observe @ProBilliardSeries on social media.