Badsnookerplayer wrote:That needs an expert view - maybe PLTheRef, AceSinc or Snookerfan?
Not my area of expertise, I'm just a "rules guy". This is corporate stuff. I live in a barren Snooker desert over here and have enough of my own problems let alone paying attention to the soap opera of cue sports in-fighting.
But of course, I am happy to give my tuppence...
My understanding is that Jason Ferguson resigned from his position with the World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS), and retains his position with the World Professional Billiard and Snooker Association (WPBSA) though he is still listed on the WCBS website as being President, presumably still not updated. I have not even heard if an interim or permanent new President has been named yet, though I admit I have not really been paying attention.
My understanding is the the WCBS is the bigger picture.....it is the unification of Carom Billiards (no pockets, completely different than English Billiards), Pool, and Snooker. These are the folks who are making the push to get the cue sports into the Olympics. I think that some people may think that the push was for SNOOKER to get into the Olympics...not so, Snooker would be one of the events of the cue sports just like gymnastics or swimming have many different events.
So the WPBSA (still chaired by Jason Ferguson) is one of the three branches of the WCBS. Not the same thing.....the one thing is a part of the other, bigger thing.
WCBS = overseeing organization
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UMB (carom) : WPA (Pool) : WPBSA and IBSF (Snooker) = co-equal branches of the organization
Update: In looking into this matter, I did find out that Ian Anderson (from Australia, not he of "Jethro Tull" fame) has been named as the new President of the WCBS. All I can say about that is that I know a guy who is on the Board of Directors of the WPA and he says he is a friend of Ian Anderson and considers him to be a good guy. Make of that what you will. I have no idea why Mr. Ferguson resigned from the WCBS but it would certainly appear that it would be related to the WPBSA/IBSF tiff.
Eraserhead, did you LYAO at all of those acronyms?