Did you all read about what happened between Harriman and Archer? Danny was on the hill, and couldn't reach the shot. He took off his shoes, climbed on top of the table on all fours, and made the difficult shot easily. Apparently he found a loophole in the rules, because it doesn't state anywhere that you have to have one foot on the floor. Archer was disgusted with Danny doing that, and wouldn't shake his hand. Danny told Johnny "You're disrespecting me" when Archer refused to shake. Archer said "No you're disrespecting ME by climbing on the table like a monkey".
I totally agree with Archer here. Keeping one foot on the floor is widely known by everyone who plays pool competitively. Nobody discusses it, it's just common pool etiquette that is widely accepted by everyone. I can imagine something like this happening at some local tournament, but in the greatest tournament in the history of pool? Finding a loophole that was an OBVIOUS error that it wasn't included in the rules (probably because nobody has ever tried to exploit this, it didn't even cross their minds), and using it to your advantage like that....that is just bad class. For goodness sake, just get the damn rest and make the damn ball like you are supposed to.
As long as darts has been a sport, lets say at a tournament, there is a line drawn where you are supposed to stand to throw the darts, but there are no written rules for that particular tournament that you have to stand behind that line. Every dart player just knows that you can't be in front of that line, so the dart tournament goes on as usual. All of a sudden, a dart player walks right up to the dartboard, and jabs his darts into the bullseye. Everyone is wondering why the hell he did this, and he says "there are no rules that say I have to stand behind that line at THIS tournament, so its perfectly legal." So here you have a dart player who exploited a tradition of the game to win his dart match. It might have won him the match, but it cost him his dignity and the respect of his fellow players and fans.
Even if he asked the ref before doing it, what can the ref do? It's not in the rule book, but it's just baaaad etiquette. One the plus side, at least he was kind enough to take his shoes off lol.
After I read about this, it feels like there is this brand new Persian rug, and someone just tracked mud all over it. He just lost himself a fan.
I totally agree with Archer here. Keeping one foot on the floor is widely known by everyone who plays pool competitively. Nobody discusses it, it's just common pool etiquette that is widely accepted by everyone. I can imagine something like this happening at some local tournament, but in the greatest tournament in the history of pool? Finding a loophole that was an OBVIOUS error that it wasn't included in the rules (probably because nobody has ever tried to exploit this, it didn't even cross their minds), and using it to your advantage like that....that is just bad class. For goodness sake, just get the damn rest and make the damn ball like you are supposed to.
As long as darts has been a sport, lets say at a tournament, there is a line drawn where you are supposed to stand to throw the darts, but there are no written rules for that particular tournament that you have to stand behind that line. Every dart player just knows that you can't be in front of that line, so the dart tournament goes on as usual. All of a sudden, a dart player walks right up to the dartboard, and jabs his darts into the bullseye. Everyone is wondering why the hell he did this, and he says "there are no rules that say I have to stand behind that line at THIS tournament, so its perfectly legal." So here you have a dart player who exploited a tradition of the game to win his dart match. It might have won him the match, but it cost him his dignity and the respect of his fellow players and fans.
Even if he asked the ref before doing it, what can the ref do? It's not in the rule book, but it's just baaaad etiquette. One the plus side, at least he was kind enough to take his shoes off lol.
After I read about this, it feels like there is this brand new Persian rug, and someone just tracked mud all over it. He just lost himself a fan.
