The next event will be held June 14 (Wednesday) through 16 (Friday), 2010, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with registration for attendees opening February 15. The June 25–27, 2009 event at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas saw 116 exhibitor in 412 booth spaces, with 1,120 buy attendees. The expressed purpose of the event is to "provide industry manufacturers, distributors, retailers, dealers and poolroom operators an annual venue for new business opportunities, including education, new products and networking." Vendor attendance in 2006 was nearly 300 companies filling between 1,300 and 1,400 10 sq ft (0.93 m 2) booth spaces. The Expo is exclusively sponsored by the BCA (and its members), and is managed by William T. It has been held in various locations, most frequently Las Vegas, Nevada, since its founding in 1984. The BCA's annual Billiard Expo (as it is known for short, or simply the Expo, within the industry ) is the largest mostly-cue-sports trade convention in the world, and despite its broad name is primarily focused on pool (pocket billiards). International Billiard & Home Recreation Expo The rules changes have not been without controversy, as some of them upset US player expectations various leagues have ignored the new rules and continued with traditional US rules (e.g., in the game of eight-ball, legally pocketing the 8 ball on the break shot has commonly been treated as an instant win). In the new edition of the rules, the organization expressed a commitment to seeing pool and carom billiards become Olympic sports (and in fact selected Colorado Springs for its new headquarters for proximity to the US Olympic Committee). The BCA had by this time become the national affiliate of the WPA.
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In 2000, the BCA made the major move of adopting the World Pool-Billiard Association's standardized rules for eight-ball, nine-ball, and other games subject to international professional competition.
) The BCA rulebooks have remained in near-annual continuous publication to the present day. (Nine-ball did not appear until the 1967 edition. Early BCA rulebooks were essentially identical to the 1946 BAA edition, including the cover art and the absence of the increasingly popular game nine-ball from the ruleset. The BCA formed with, and for several years shared offices with, the promotional trade association National Billiard Council ( NBC), now defunct. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and calling itself "the Governing Body of Billiards", the BAA produced a concise, portable, inexpensive rulebook of carom and pool games that was to serve as the model for future BCA releases. After a decline in influence in the late 1930s, in part owing to a dispute with world carom billiards champion Willie Hoppe, the NBAA reformed in 1941 as the Billiard Association of America ( BAA). The organization rapidly became the de facto governing body of the sport in the United States, with 35,000 members by 1928, and was closely tied to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, a major equipment manufacturer. The origins of the BCA began with the National Billiard Association of America ( NBAA), founded July 25, 1921. Also annually, it inducts great players, and those who have made great contributions to the sport, into the BCA Hall of Fame. The BCA holds an annual trade show, the International Billiards & Home Recreation Expo. The BCA publishes an annual rule and record book that incorporates the WPA world standardized rules for games such as nine-ball, eight-ball, ten-ball and straight pool, as well as rules for other games that are not presently the subject of international competition, such as one pocket, bank pool, cowboy pool, rotation, American snooker, and Chicago among many others. The voting members of the organization are mostly equipment manufacturers. The BCA is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. It was established under this name in 1948 as a non-profit trade organization in order to promote the sport and organize its players via tournaments at various levels. The Billiard Congress of America ( BCA) is the governing body for cue sports in the United States and Canada, and the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).
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