The World Eight-ball Pool Federation is an international pool

Pocket billiards

Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...

 governing body overseeing international tournaments and rankings (sometimes called, as evidenced by the organisation name, eight-ball, which is ambiguous, as that term more globally applies to the related American-style game). As such, the WEPF competes for authority and membership with the World Pool-Billiard Association

World Pool-Billiard Association

The World Pool-Billiard Association is the international governing body for pocket billiards . The group was formed in 1987, and was initially headed by a provisional board of directors consisting of representatives from Japan, the United States, Sweden, and Germany...

 (WPA), which produces its own differing blackball rules and tournaments.

The current men's champion is England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

's Mick Hill

Mick Hill (pool player)

Mick Hill is an English pool player. In 2004 he was WEPF men's world champion of English 8-ball pool.Mick Hill started his pool life based from Dudley in the West Midlands...

 who beat fellow countryman and three times champion Gareth Potts

Gareth Potts

Gareth 'Golden Boy' Potts is an English 3 time world champion 8-ball pool player, winning the English Pool Association World Rules World Championship in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He also won the 2000 junior world pool championships....

 11-8 in the Final. In the ladies event, Sue Thompson of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 defeated Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

's Emma Cunningham 8-4. The tournaments were held at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

, UK

United Kingdom

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from in 2010.