Here's my take on what transpired and what was said and the game of 9 ball itself after seeing the implementation of the WPA rules. I'm comparing this to my two years of play in the early 90's.
They used the rack template, it caused quite a few problems.
The breaker could make a ball on the break but not shoot because of the WPA ''kitchen'' ruling.
First off, each table had an I pad type score keeper with huge fonts/nice touch and were seen, easily across the room. Each score pad had a camera lens.
Break rules, must get three in the kitchen or two and one in the pocket OR etc, incoming player can shoot the shot or give it back, and no roll out is in effect during a break foul. Also no BIH in a non scratch break foul.
Welllllllll. often players got into and argument about if a ball went in/out of the kitchen or not.
Was sad to see such conflict over something that could of easily been taken care of by I pad instant replay of break shot.
Any who, the game is broken with the current flow of play and it's nannie ness. TV table, it averages 85 seconds from the time the 9 went down till the breaker addressed the balls, then the 40 sec shot clock could come into play, then and extension,. then a roll out, then next player up, then and extension then the shot. Sometimes 4 minutes went by before the balls were racked and the first shot took place.
Here's how you solve this problem. 30 sec shot clock
Wooden rack, the sounds of it are Very important to the game, as are pocketing sounds....It's also off the table after racking is done.:grin-square: It doesn't curl up in time, and it will speed up play.
Next have a 2 1/4'' break spot on the head string ''in the center''. Rack the balls where they should be, and play pool.
Winner breaks, loser racks. Game on.
I did like this rule, scratch shooting the nine as last ball, then incoming player must shoot a spot shot from the kitchen.
The WPA thinks they understand 9 ball, but they really don't understand it's core, it's style it's aggressiveness it's nature. This game brings out guys like Earl/Shaw/Sigel/Filler/Chau/Busty. It's like watching the great young PGA golfers hitting em 350 yrds from the tee box.
They used the rack template, it caused quite a few problems.
The breaker could make a ball on the break but not shoot because of the WPA ''kitchen'' ruling.
First off, each table had an I pad type score keeper with huge fonts/nice touch and were seen, easily across the room. Each score pad had a camera lens.
Break rules, must get three in the kitchen or two and one in the pocket OR etc, incoming player can shoot the shot or give it back, and no roll out is in effect during a break foul. Also no BIH in a non scratch break foul.
Welllllllll. often players got into and argument about if a ball went in/out of the kitchen or not.
Was sad to see such conflict over something that could of easily been taken care of by I pad instant replay of break shot.
Any who, the game is broken with the current flow of play and it's nannie ness. TV table, it averages 85 seconds from the time the 9 went down till the breaker addressed the balls, then the 40 sec shot clock could come into play, then and extension,. then a roll out, then next player up, then and extension then the shot. Sometimes 4 minutes went by before the balls were racked and the first shot took place.
Here's how you solve this problem. 30 sec shot clock
Wooden rack, the sounds of it are Very important to the game, as are pocketing sounds....It's also off the table after racking is done.:grin-square: It doesn't curl up in time, and it will speed up play.
Next have a 2 1/4'' break spot on the head string ''in the center''. Rack the balls where they should be, and play pool.
Winner breaks, loser racks. Game on.
I did like this rule, scratch shooting the nine as last ball, then incoming player must shoot a spot shot from the kitchen.
The WPA thinks they understand 9 ball, but they really don't understand it's core, it's style it's aggressiveness it's nature. This game brings out guys like Earl/Shaw/Sigel/Filler/Chau/Busty. It's like watching the great young PGA golfers hitting em 350 yrds from the tee box.
