What format will be used for this tournament?

[L.S. Dennis]

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I’m wondering what rules will be used for this tournament. Will we bet our orange 5, purple 4 and maroon 7 back? Also 9 on the spot, break box???

 

[bb9ball]

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I’m wondering what rules will be used for this tournament. Will we bet our orange 5, purple 4 and maroon 7 back? Also 9 on the spot, break box???

The flyer you listed shows the following website.

The 2025 Int'l Open Is Scheduled - International Open

Pay your 9-Ball entry fee here. Updated player lists. Live PPV Information. Hotel Reservations.

www.intlopen.com

The site has the following "Rules and Equipment" link.

Rules

www.intlopen.com

Unfortunately, it isn't more specific to which ball set will be used.
Only has "Aramith Belgian Balls"

 

[L.S. Dennis]

The flyer you listed shows the following website.

The 2025 Int'l Open Is Scheduled - International Open

Pay your 9-Ball entry fee here. Updated player lists. Live PPV Information. Hotel Reservations.

www.intlopen.com

The site has the following "Rules and Equipment" link.

Rules

www.intlopen.com

Unfortunately, it isn't more specific to which ball set will be used.
Only has "Aramith Belgian Balls"

Thanks for that, sorry to read that they are not going with call shot in the 10 ball, but the rest looks good!
Hopefully Pat will give us back our traditionally colored balls, and who knows we might even get green cloth back as well!

 

[AtLarge]

... Unfortunately, it isn't more specific to which ball set will be used.
Only has "Aramith Belgian Balls"

Last year they used the Aramith Tournament TV balls -- pink 4-ball and orange 5-ball -- with a red-dot cue ball.

 

[sjm]

Thanks for that, sorry to read that they are not going with call shot in the 10 ball, but the rest looks good!
Hopefully Pat will give us back our traditionally colored balls, and who knows we might even get green cloth back as well!

Call shot was one of the things that ended the straight pool era. For the causal viewer, it's fan unfriendly.

Call shot is the single biggest reason that ten-ball remains the fringe game that has never replaced nine-ball as the primary tournament game, despite close to twenty-five years of predictions to the contrary. Those who believe that ten-ball was always a call-shot game are uninformed.

The only ten ball event I watch live is the Bigfoot (played at both Derby City and the International) where it is always played Texas Express which, per Jay Helfert, is how it's played in the Philippines. The cream always rises to the top.

All of that said, it remains a matter of taste and you enjoy what you enjoy.

 

[garczar]

Call shot was one of the things that ended the straight pool era. For the causal viewer, it's fan unfriendly.

Call shot is the single biggest reason that ten-ball remains the fringe game that has never replaced nine-ball as the primary tournament game, despite close to twenty-five years of predictions to the contrary. Those who believe that ten-ball was always a call-shot game are uninformed.

The only ten ball event I watch live is the Bigfoot (played at both Derby City and the International) where it is always played Texas Express which, per Jay Helfert, is how it's played in the Philippines. The cream always rises to the top.

All of that said, it remains a matter of taste and you enjoy what you enjoy.

I agree although call-shot 10b isn't so bad as long as its NOT call-safe. That has to be the most boring/neutered form of pool on the planet.