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In 1992, there was a rebreak, but the rules were still spotting balls and the cue ball was in hand behind the line. By 1997, the official rules were ball in hand anywhere for an illegal break with no rerack. So.... The potential 3-foul from the break situation has been official for about 30 years.

Either I don't understand that rule or (b) allows most jump shots that are seen in pool. (Also, in (c) I think they mean "another" rather than "the other".)

There was another one where the breaker was not so well known. Maybe on the stream chat, someone said he was cheating with the initial miscue to get out of breaking -- strange comment. And then he lost. I think the rule is a nice reminder to learn the rules, and it doesn't come up that often...

There is a video of Bill Werbeniuk miscuing over a red to pot a red by mistake and no foul was called. Of course that was long ago and maybe the rule has been tightened. And it's legal at snooker to jump over a ball after the cue ball has struck a ball, which is sometimes used for position play...

One went by about a year ago. There was a lot of confusion and comments. As I recall, the breaker kicked to a good hit on his third shot but scratched.

Usually, if you are watching a YouTube video on your laptop/desktop you can copy the link text and then paste into the posting. Maybe there's a way from your phone.

Which give away is that?

Look at how they are placed on tournament tables (on videos). I think it's really up to where you like them. You could put them on temporarily with tape before you go permanent.

The latest stream had Yannick Pongers as the English commentator. He does a good job. Edit: that may have been Quinten Pongers who was a commentator later on.

Stream is finished for the day Matches on this stream: Alobaidli -- Biado Ameer Ali -- SVB Matikainen -- Dang Jinhu Sharif -- Al Ali

He has a huge advantage over the other players as far as pressure goes -- he has a day job. ;)

There seemed to be no scheduling issues. Single elim helps a lot with that. Four days was a good length.

Presumably (but not certainly) it had been around for at least a few years before then, so 1985 is a reasonable start date. That looks like C8B and snooker.

Byes don't count as matches. One guy in the finals got a bye in the round of 128 and one guy didn't. Biado had two byes (or walkovers) in the first two rounds, and then lost to Manas in the round of 32, so he is listed as having one match.

The run starts about 34 minutes in with the score at 9-3, Aviega ahead. This link has the time set....

At a BCA trade show, I had a very interesting discussion with someone who does a lot of business in China. If you take all the people who play cue sports -- pool, snooker, English 8-ball, pyramid, carom, and heyball -- most of them play heyball. I hadn't really heard of heyball until about...

I think it's an improvement over some previous events. Visually, it's a lot better than the single camera in a vast arena. I wonder if there is any distribution beyond the stream. In the mean time, Fedor wins 9-8, with a very nice rack to finish.

Fedor is live now on his own channel:

The person in charge of the graphics has only a slight acquaintance with its operation and features, such as "current shooter", "balls pocketed", and "timer display". At some point during the Ruslan/Ameer match, the clock beeper started working. Ruslan loses, 9-6

The way event announcement works is that a few years before the Games, a short list of possible added events is announced. There is some amount of mulling it over and maybe getting reactions and then the final list of new events -- if any -- is officially announced. At one point cue sports...