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Yeah, you would think he would know better.

Right, but why suddenly decide these were fouls when they weren't before? It confused the players (and the rules committee, apparently). Anyway, hopefully he gets the chance to learn from this. Being and looking in the right place is the majority of a referee's job.

Also see Bob Jewett's post about the rule changes.

Do pool players even go outside? :)

You forgot when he unilaterally decided that a miscue was a foul, which WPA had to correct with a rule clarification last month. Michaela Tabb (not an American, by the way - not sure what your issue is there) set the gold standard for pool referees. Hopefully Marcel can approach her level...

Sorry, not even close. He's had multiple high-profile screwups. But in all fairness, he does ref a lot and gets plenty of opportunities.

Somewhere he had the best view of the area where the likelihood of a foul was the highest. If Yapp had been bending over a ball, the ref would have watched his shirt like a hawk to spot a touch. In this case, the most likely place for a foul to occur was where Yapp had to hold his cue...

On the contrary - it would have been much more visible to the naked eye than through an image that's been cut into frames, digitized, compressed, optimized, enlarged, and viewed on screens with limited pixel count. The human eye is incredible and makes any screen's resolution seem like grainy...

It wasn't magic, or digital artifacts, or seismic activity, or ghosts. Occam's razor. His cue hit the 9. Why are we even questioning this? I predict a @dr_dave video by Tuesday at the latest. For everyone else, maybe next year.

I just played against a kid in a tournament. I got exactly four shots in three games in the match, all from very low-quality position he had left me in. He ran out from everywhere, kicked, jumped, broke out trouble. It was a joy to watch. 11th grade he's in. Maybe there is a future.

I agree, I didn't see any reaction on Yapp's part. But I definitely noticed the foul in real time. And on the replay. And in the super slo-mo blowup.

Yapp probably didn't feel it, but the ref should have seen it. Even in our barely HD streaming video you can see it. Direct human vision is way better than that, even better than 4K or 8K. We've all watched similar shots in person. He was either out of position or looking where he shouldn't...

I would much rather believe that Yapp didn't feel it.

Yep. Whenever you have human refs there will be bad calls. This will be right up there with the big ones. Next man up.

They're thinking the same thing everyone already knows. It was a foul, Gorst would have cleaned up the last three balls with ball in hand, and then he would have been breaking on the hill.

He's not bad. He probably gets more calls right than your average baseball umpire. He made some egregious calls in the past couple of years. When Dr. Dave publishes a video about your mistakes it's never good. But he did blow this one.

Nope. You're missing it.

Go full screen if you don't see it.

There is zero doubt. Watch the number 9 as he pulls away. Watch in fullscreen if you still don't see it.

Yep - definitely rocked. You can see it rock as he's pulling his cue away after the shot.