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IWGA President Perurena: Birmingham, USA, to be Host City of The World Games 2021

The World Games 2021 will take place in Birmingham/Alabama/USA. This decision was announced by José Perurena, President of the International World Games Association, at noon on Thursday, 22 January 2015, at a press conference in the Mövenpick Hotel in Lausanne.

During its meetings on Wednesday the IWGA Executive Committee had made a final assessment of the Bids from Birmingham (USA), Lima (Peru) and Ufa (Russia), and evaluated the delegations’ final presentations. The IWGA Executive Board took the final decision on the host city for the 11^th edition of this multi-sports event at its meeting on Thursday morning.

This announcement is subject to successful negotiation of contractual conditions, and subsequent confirmation by the IWGA‘s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in April 2015. The agreement with the next host city will be signed right after the AGM. The 10th edition of The World Games will be staged in 2017 in Wroclaw Poland. The IWGA flag will be handed over to the representatives of Birmingham during the closing ceremony in Wroclaw on 30 July 2017.

Dieter Johns (USA) won the first tournament of EEBC Pyramid Tour 2015 series. The competition took place in Germering (Germany) on 17 – 18 January 2015. 32 players from 10 countries (USA, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Bulgaria, Russia and Italy) joined the tournament.

Friendly match in pyramid between Poland and Slovakia took place in Luna hotel in Martin (Slovakia) on the 15th January. This event was promoting action 'Say No!!! To Doping'.

First Slovakian Pyramid Championships were played on the 28 December in Luna hotel in Martin (Slovakia).

Michal Turkowski from Nosan Kielce became the winner of the first in Poland comercial pyramid tournament. In the final match defeated Jan Nieweglowski 3:0. TVSports.pl provided live streaming from semifinals and final. The organizers of the event were Mak Marketing and EEBC.

Players will receive ranking points from the following tournaments:

• EEBC Pyramid Tour – Germany
• EEBC Pyramid Tour – Czech
• EEBC Pyramid Tour – Bulgaria
• EEBC Pyramid Tour – Latvia
• EEBC Pyramid Tour – Spain

Dear friends

We would like to inform, that East European Billiard Council will continue cooperation with International Pyramid Confederation. We will support organization of following events in 2015:

World Championships in "Free Pyramid" organized in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) have just ended. 18-year-old representative of Moldova – S. Kryzanovsky was the best amongst men.

World Free Pyramid Championships has just started in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia). 64 men and 32 women came to Siberia. Amongst the participants are 4 representatives of EEBC - 2 people from Bulgaria, 1 from Poland and Slovakia.

Prague Pyramid Championships took place in Prague on the 8th – 9th November. Players competed in free and dynamic pyramid.