Man-oh-man, Chris. You are awfully critical for not having even one experience with these rules.
Paul you are like the little engine who could.... You keep trying to get up the hill and I keep playing the part of gravity LOL... I doubt either of us give up anytime soon....
I respect you for what you do in your community and the fact you run a great room... Don't ever think I am personally attacking you... I just favor the normal break rules... I can go along with no 3 foul... I can go along with the respot money balls made out of turn.... I can and have gone along with no jump cues... But being willing to go along with doesn't mean I have to like it... And the break rules you use while seemingly fair to everyone really only level the field for the guys that don't break well...
This is where we have disagreed in the past and here we are again... Luck plays a part in the break even doing it your way... Skill aside from playing position on the one ball does go away...
Hitting the cueball at over 24mph in the center while maintaining the proper hit on the head ball to park whitey, to make a ball, and get position on the one doesn't just happen over and over by chance or luck... Chance or luck is what keeps it from happening every time if you have practiced the break to the extent many of us have...
If everyone could do that then you wouldn't even need your rules. As it is I know players who never work on the break and it shows.. You are in essence rewarding them by putting them on even footing after the break as the guys who developed the skill...
In golf what you would be doing is walking everyone off the tee out 325 yards to the center of the fairway on a tight par 5....
The random process you use could just as well require the same rack order be used by everyone... I think Joe Tucker has the racking orders for 9 and 10 ball on his DVDs that are the hardest to run because of the geometry of the break shot......
Good luck with the tournament... I am sure a good time will be had by all as always... I'll buy you a beer if you make the Open in Chesapeake.. We are both trying to make things fair.. You developed your ruleset and I designed the accu-rack templates.... Both are efforts to get rid of the racking shenanigans and mechanics... I am sure many who have played your ruleset might hate using templates.....
Chris