World Straight Pool Championship


The World Straight Pool Championship, sometimes marked as simply the World Tournament among other names, is a pool) competition, that has been held annually in United States in its present form since 2006. It is one of the successor tournaments to the historical World 14.1 Continuous Championship. During the modern tournament's early years, it was the only global professional title for straight pool. The event is organized by Dragon Promotions, in part to restore the game's popularity in the United States. Throughout the current event's history, only the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 editions were sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association to be world championships. Since then, the tournament continues to be held under its current name without WPA sanctioning.

Format

All 64 players are divided into 8 groups where they play in round-robin format. Each in this round is a to 100 points. The leading 4 players in each group proceed to the next round.
The games of the last-32 round are played in double-elimination format until 16 players remain. Matches are extended to races to 150 points.
The games in the last-16 round are played in single-elimination format, and matches are extended, to races to 200 points. The finals match is further extended to a race to 300 points.

Winners

Early World 14.1 Continuous Championship tournaments

In 1911, Jerome Keough invented the 14.1-continuous game.
*WPA-sanctioned world championship