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An activity involving physical exertion and skill, esp. (particularly in modern use) one regulated by set rules or customs in which an individual or team competes against another or others. https://www.oed.com › Entry sport, n.1 - Oxford English Dictionary

Only enough,same one I posted you said was wrong.

Feel free to post one. Most definitions readily found by linguistic authorities such as Oxford or Dictionary do not support your opinion.

A sport is a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other. While you are free to make up your own definitions , it doesn't make them correct.

That's because you and I are not competing in dish doing.

I guess I'm lucky I never encountered the combo. I'd have never got anything done.

Isn't a table length stop shot evidence of the ball sliding the table length?

That was the move when we all shot with house sticks, right? Lean it against the wall with some dejected body language. It was like magic.!

Kinda funny you put it like that. In my area they're all the same people, just at a different venue.

It historically accurate. It's a checkers game. It why pros play sets of 100 or more. They know the shorter the race the better chance the inferior player has.

It appears they both had a brain fart and it turned into an argument about who farted first. Both stink

I know , right. Being mindful of handicaps is literally built into the system and it's more than just straight up throwing matches.

As we see around here , many people will argue a rule without ever having read it.

You're saying you manipulate players scores outside of the equalizer system? How does that affect the matches that person played? If you believe someone is sandbagging is there sanctions or do you just move them up a skill level? How many players are in your region?

What do you do that prevents repeats?

It's only a thing if you are serious about going to Vegas. I played one session of APA 8ball and captained 3 masters teams in different divisions. I enjoyed it when I played , and like the masters format. However, my 8 ball team could only use one 7. Since I couldn't play on the 8 ball team I...

Yes. Saying sandbagging in APA is at an all time low is simply gaslighting. To win in Vegas you have to play. To repeatedly get your team to Vegas you must be handicap conscious. Sometimes a team gets together , plays hard and gets to Vegas. For that team to get to Vegas again they must be...

The elephant

I know several teams that get to Vegas regularly. They are all , uh , handicap conscious. They are not full bore win every match in the most efficient way possible all session long. That's sandbagging and thats what it takes for repeated trips to Vegas in the APA. 23 rule. It is what it is.

A while back I remember reading a thread around here about calling fouls on oneself. There were a lot of posters talking about rules and honor and how they always call fouls on themselves. In this thread we have a lot of posters who's general outlook is well, rules are rules but they're an...