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I think Matchroom used to use Brunswick tables, back when Brunswick was doing significant pool sponsorship. I think Diamond was next, but I'm not sure about the transition. I see that the 2015 Mosconi Cup was on Diamond and the 2016 Cup was on Rasson. I believe Rasson started making pool tables...

I don't think the actual formula for ball speed versus stick speed was ever mentioned above. The faster the stick moves, the faster the ball moves. Twice the stick speed, twice the ball speed. In addition to that simple relationship, there is a multiplier that is related to the weights of the...

Actually, it's conservation of both energy and momentum. Momentum can be divided between the cue ball and cue stick during the hit in an infinite number of ways if only momentum is considered. It is conservation of energy that forces the single result that we see.

A straight alignment needs to look straight.

I think the alternative to ivory at the time was wood. "Mud" balls or "clay" balls I think were mostly Bakelite with minerals added, like this:

No other company has (or had) the ability to install and level 30 tables as quickly as Diamond can. The single-piece slate makes that possible. Prior to Diamond tables at tournaments, you had to worry more about rolls.

If the balls were ivory, they would have wandered off for other purposes or cracked in a hundred years or so and then been reused. I wonder how long the table was used after the French revolution.

I wasn't there, but reportedly players discovered about this time that the points of the cues would work better if they rubbed them into the ceiling plaster. Tips were still about 30 years away. The chalk holder was needed because the ceiling in that room is inconveniently high.

Some crazy Australians are restoring an old French chateau and found a billiard table.

Here's a different form of buy-back that was used for tournaments around here. Run many mini-tournaments. Maybe 4-player or 8-player depending on the number of entries and tables. If a player wins his mini, he advances to the main/final board. If a player loses in a mini, he can buy back...

A large part of the MC's job is to make things lively during breaks and prepare the audience to do their part, which we usually don't get to see on the stream. Around 2000 MR had a Scot(?) named John(?) who did a really good job at that.

It's a very specialized skill that only applies to nine ball with the nine on the spot and a template rack and new balls. I'm not bothered by it -- other than not being able to make the one ball myself -- but I can see how some could be irritated. It's not the traditional smash-and-pray from a...

The WNT racks the 2 ball in one of three positions -- the "corners". I have heard there is a standard rotation between those positions, but I didn't notice it. Edit: in the finals, the position of the 2 ball was on the corners, but apparently without a set rotation: 39693639936939 (clock face).

Well, most of the reviews are fake, and for most people, Prime is a rip-off. Amazon just was punished for how it runs Prime. From an AI summary: Amazon reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve a lawsuit alleging it trapped consumers into...

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Bad timing. 9-1. Time for a golden break. :ROFLMAO:

Over/under 1.5.

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The early "official" rules were determined by people like Cotton and later Hoyle who went to the trouble of writing down the rules more or less clearly, consistently and completely, based on how people played at the time. I think the first cue sports governing bodies were (from Wikipedia): The...

The requirement is that a foot be touching the floor at the instant the tip hits the ball. The jack-in-the-box breakers may have a foot on the floor at that time.