The Shots of Artistic Billiards
Each year the Commission Internationale de Billard Artistique (CIBA) organizes national, regional and world championships in artistic billiards. The competition consists of 76 set shots. The order of the shots changes from tournament to tournament, and occasionally new shots are added and old ones deleted. Generally the shots will be divided into groups of two to four similar shots. Each player tries all of the shots in a group during one turn at the table, taking up to three attempts at each shot. Between four and eleven points are awarded for a successful shot depending on the difficulty of the shot and regardless of the number of misses. The order of play rotates for each subsequent group of shots so that no player has an advantage. The contestant with the highest score at the completion of the 76 shots is the winner. The record score in the World Championship is 355 points out of a possible 500 (Raymond Steylaerts, 1984). A typical winning score might be 150 to 250 depending on the level of competition.