When I played APA some years back our league operator had to field many questions about sandbagging and the national championships. IIRC he said if you play 2 skill levels above your current rating you will get DQd. This would be based on the scoresheets submitted during the tournament. But he also said that in some instances the league may send an observer to watch and if the observer thought you played better than your skill level you could get DQd. I have no idea how a team gets DQd. Too many players sandbagging maybe.

and remember the biggest jumps in pool came with the fats shows on tv. then with the two big pool movies.

so getting pool in the media is king. and the best way is with shows and very large tournament payouts.
stupid winners on the cheap game shows win more every day than a big pool tournament winner.
why because they get more viewers and they get more viewers because the payouts are big compared to what the viewers make at their jobs.

if they got a trophy and a couple thousand bucks the shows would go off the air from lack of viewers.

gg svb

GideonF said:

In the new revisions of the WPA rules, they made it clear that a player can take their break at between any racks (regardless of who’s break is next). Apologies if this has been discussed before, but what is the thinking behind that change.

I much prefer the old practice that you can only take a break when it’s your “turn”. I don’t like a player being able to ice someone on a run (eg Shane running a package).

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I'm fine with it. That's the way people play outside of the WPA anyway. When you get to that level you should be use to it and the intentional icers.

Chopdoc said:

That's a Murrey branded Adam cue!

We have the catalog of them made by Viking. I have yet to see a Murrey catalog with the cues made by Adam.

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I am embarrassed to admit I am not familiar with what Murrey was. A billiards supply company akin to Mueller's or something?

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td873 said:

Yes. He is off the rail. In fact, the object ball is almost a full ball off the rail. Definitely not shooting down the rail. Parallel to it, sure.

Check the video again. You have the screenshots, so I'm sure you have it handy.

-td

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By off the rail I thought you were talking about the ball hitting the rail on the way to the pocket. ok. misunderstanding.