Welcome to the PAT-website

About billiard
Billiard is a very technically ambitious form of sports. You might even call it the most exacting sport in the world when it comes to hand-eye coordination.
Until now, it has not been possible to document your own technical abilities and compare them with other players. The PAT system gives you the chance to do this.

About PAT
PAT stands for playing ability test. What exactly does that mean? The answer can be found in another form of sports – martial arts. In martial arts the combatants measure their abilities in special tests. Successful combatants are allowed to wear a certain coloured belt, showing his technical level to all others.
The PAT system works in a similar way. If you are successful in the playing ability test, the billiard player may wear a certain coloured emblem.

Playing ability test
There are 4 different tests for different technical levels, ranging from amateurs to top players in the world elite. Each PAT is made up of 10 single exercises which document and evaluate special billiard skills. For example stroke quality, aiming and position play. Each exercise results in a numerical value correlating to the result as a percentage (0 to 100 points or percent). Because you can achieve more than 100 points in each exercise you don’t have to achieve 100 points in each exercise to get 1000 points for a complete test. You might have 80 points in exercise one and 130 in exercise two. This makes it possible to get more than 1000 points in your result.
The emblem system Emblems rewarding achievement stand out as shining examples and can be very motivating – as we know from school sports or martial arts.
The World Pool Association (WPA – officially recognised by the IOC) has therefore developed a special colour emblem system. 

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