Australian cuesports

WEPF Worlds becoming more and more 'Diluted'

In the early 2000s, you could say the WEPF worlds easily had the best players on this type of pool in the world.

Then in the mid to late 2000s, some of the top players left to play 9ball (Appleton, Melling, Boyes etc)

Now you have the IPA having their own world championships, see here for details

http://www.ipapooltour.com/world-professional-8-ball-pool-festival-...

This is likely to leave the WEPF worlds devoid of most of the top pro players.

This will give an aussie a great chance to win, look at how close Ben came last year, but is it going to mean that much now ?

It's a real shame the game is going this way.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Wood on May 15, 2012 at 12:26

At the end of the Day a World Champion is a World Champion, you still have to beat a lot of great players to get there whatever the circumstances, good luck to Rusty and Ben and all the Aussie reps, I know they will do our country proud

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Permalink Reply by ben nunan on May 15, 2012 at 17:26

I won't be there Mark but have spoken to the great rusty wheeler and he has assured me he will start favourite and will win!!! on ya rust

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Permalink Reply by Brendan Connors on May 16, 2012 at 0:17

Think this is the latest list of who is going in 2012...

Mens Team	Womens Team	Masters Team	Under 21 Team	Under 18 Team
John 'Rusty" Wheeler	Renata Delahunty (Captain)	Cranne Wrigley (Captain)	Anthony Adams (Captain)	Luke Foster (Captain)
Alan Brown	Suzanne Bussanich	Paul Hancock	Daniel Banfield	Adam Bleumink
Dean Welsh	Nicole Welsh	Gary Proctor	Nick Young	Ian Hinton
Chris Forsyth	Ana Cristina Sarmento	Team Manager: Chris Rusk	Team Manager: Chris Rusk	Cale Barrett
Mick Delahunty	Fiona Plummer			Michael Cacciola
Adam List	Cindy Blackmore			Stephen Kaine
Marcus Jackson	Team Manager: Cheryl Congram			Team Manager: Warren Ross
Dane Beeton
Team Manager: Damien Smith