Inspecting the rack
- Thread starter slach
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Titty twister, corner pocket.
Yes.
The knowledge of how to read the rack and exploit the different gaps has been out there for a while now. Joe Tucker was the first to commercially release the info.
That presents the race condition of who looked first. What if both look at the same time? I agree that the rack shouldn't be inspected if it's racked by an official, as it seems rude and undermining to do so.
If both look at the same time (or rather have been adjudged to have looked at the same time) then I guess it would make sense that the penalty goes to both of them. After all, they both looked.......
I’m glad someone found it funny ‘cos I didn’t. Seems like a pretty reasonable suggestion for keeping the game clean. But I would say that cos I wrote it...
Have any other suggestions for how you would deal with players inspecting the rack?
I think hitting the ref with a stick once should incur the maximum penalty, but neither you nor I make the rules and are both entitled to opinions on the consequences.
Right, but I meant in the perspective of a game penalty instead of a tournament penalty. If both look at the same time, a game penalty would be null due to equal distribution... would they both be negative 1 racks? I assume it would be 1 warning, then ejection.
Ejected players from a tournament would make an interesting C-Side bracket which could be held in an alley with no cameras or officials of any type. This could be ran in the Last Man Standing format.
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Yes they would both lose one rack. This rack and the next rack. Same player breaks again, unless someone is over the hill. Not rocket science and easy to administer.
No cameras, no refs, no upstanding players - different story. But I don’t see how that would change anything regarding how opponents wanting a good game would implement the rules. Or how it would affect a tournament......
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I'm not sure I follow the "look at it at the same time" discussion. I've very rarely seen two players cone up and simultaneously inspect a rack, it's usually the breaker, or in rack your own usually the non breaker. I like ref rack no look. I did see a few players inspect racks at the world 10 ball. They probably got a verbal warning. Seconds probably would be a rack forfeit. Just guessing though.
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Yuk yuk yuketty yuk.
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry...