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There is a system like that installed in the local room, that I posted about before. One of the functions is a kind of target pool with automatic scoring. The introductory price is $3000 the last I heard. I don't know how close they are to a real introduction. Is there any indication of where...

Just play one pocket. Your opponent will be pocketing balls for you. Easy-peasy.

Maybe at least in part because Allen Hopkins shot the purple five instead of the pink four at least twice at a US Open.

The number I recall was $100,000 per year. I believe Earl got a lot of shafts to choose from.

One way to answer that question is to answer instead: For the top 100 players in each sport, how many hours of practice did it take them to break into the top 100? Next: Which is harder, chess or curling?

The conditions at different events vary, so it's hard to make it a requirement. I suppose the regulations could urge use of video, but I can think of several reasons why it might be a problem even if it was being recorded.

I think it is a really bad idea for the referee to start any such conversation. The player might not realize that there is any problem and now the ref jumps up and says ...

Some tournaments explicitly do not have video reviews. Do we know what the policy was in this match? Personally, I think the ref should use whatever info is available to make difficult calls.

While the path of the cue ball does tell the story for this shot, it is not one of the simpler situations, like shooting between two frozen balls. I can see how the ref could be unsure about what a shot would look like if close to a simultaneous hit.

Kodak provides a relatively cheap digitization service for vhs but the Jacksonville tape has minimal editing. Dr. Dave has a bunch of high-speed videos, some of which we did together.

That was me. Some articles about that project are in item #29 here: http://www.sfbilliards.com/miscellaneous.htm

Some of the worst advice I've ever seen for a pool shot was by a team captain during a time-out. Absolutely clueless. The notion that the typical league player is going to learn anything useful during actual matches from their fellow players is questionable at best.

If you look at the two paths of the cue ball in the Sharivari video for separate (non-overlapping) contacts, the paths are quite far apart. The path in the stream video was very close to one of those paths. It is possible that there was overlapping contact, but that is still hitting one ball...

Sharivari has a good video discussing the shot and showing 8-first and 4-first shots. In each case the cue ball follows the ball it hit second. That is for shots that clearly hit one ball first. A very general principle in physics says that as the incoming line of cue ball is very gradually...

Ron Kilby used to post here, but not for a while. "kilby" I think he started making cues about 1985.

In your experience, is there always a referee present?

Considering how often it happens -- almost never in typical league games -- there is no reason to put a limit on intentional illegal contact. The real reason it's in there is because snooker has/had a rule that you should never benefit from a foul. It's unsportsmanlike and very lower class.

I wonder if it was possible to ask for a video review. The WNT did not have it available the last I heard.

The clock does not change until it is legal for the incoming player to take a shot. The clock is best switched by the outgoing player and I think it is a very good thing that the outgoing player is forced to return to his seat promptly.

Ummm... What about the announcers? I agree about the director (who chooses the view). This seems to be a pretty common problem. Let's see the opponent's reaction instead of the cue ball which is going towards a cluster. It really requires pool understanding and I think they are often stuck with...