Objection: relevance.
And what is prepped, your Honor? Is the author implying the table is not 100% tournament legitimate?
Vice City Filler vs Marc Bijsterbosch Ref Poor Position to make the call
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And what is prepped, your Honor? Is the author implying the table is not 100% tournament legitimate?
Silicone. But it still looks like the ball simply changed direction. Zanetti is like ok my telekinesis not so good today etc...
wtf are you babbling?
It's not even blabbing. There's "research" documentation for the checking. Certainly enough for humor.
Anyway, the ball headed for the rail then back out as if it had hit the cushion, while there was still air in between.
spinning ball does change direction as it moves forward...
Yes but not abruptly/angularly like Zanetti's shot.
you said "silicone". Are you suggesting that guys who fight for ref to not get point to themselves unfair would use something like that?
Silicone is a common mod in billiards. Am I wrong?
Context, man!
That is a legit tournament, not a trick shot sideshow.
In your defense, football inflation, lance Armstrong....
It seems 'I' brought this 'Scenario' up a few weeks ago when the Ref is 'Overruled' by the player/players/replay video!
Wasn't saying cheating. I was under the impression silicone was in common use. Didn't the ref used to be available to lube the balls? Regardless, pro billiards is slick enough.Context, man!
That is a legit tournament, not a trick shot sideshow.
In your defense, football inflation, lance Armstrong....
Maybe in some 'Local' Bullshit 3C events in US!
In 'International; 3C' events, the table mechanics in many instances literally finish clothing the tables an hour before the tournament starts!
3C cloth is Very slippery when New, the balls 'Slide/Spin/Curve/ more than the speed of the CB moving forward!
K. I buy that. lol...
DieselPete
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I'm with you on this.
I clicked on the video expecting to see a bigger issue than what is here. His priority was the tree-topping over the ball. He has no idea whether there will be a close call on a rail hit at the other end, and he can't be in two places at once anyway. And it seems obvious to me that there was no rail after contact and the players seem to readily agree.
I'd love to pick your brain on how in the hell one changes to play on new cloth. I'm lost on it and you good players clearly are not.
Yeahhhhh, it appears that quality former refs that used to be affiliated with them such as Michaela Tabb and Nigel Reese have been replaced with, let’s say, those that once weighed and measured have been found wanting of the expertise and skills of those such as Tabb or Reese.
Technically he should of stood on the left side of the shooter, would of been much closer to the foot rail and could of immediately been allot closer to the foot rail.
If he did that, this would be a very experienced referee thinking in this manner, he would of known the one ball separation off the foot rail could cause the parallel cb spin walk'.
Perhaps so, Bill, but few would have foreseen that a call might have to be made beneath the short rail, and no referee would have been positioned where this call was best made. The scenario in which the object ball failed to reach a rail would have been hard to imagine, as one would have expected much more cue ball speed on this kick. A judgement call was always going to be needed, and in my opinion, the referee's judgment was accurate in this case.