Are there some new WPA rules?

superskippy said:
On the thread about bank pool rules, https://wpapool.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/WPA-Rules-2026-10-21-211.pdf was linked which is a new rule book, and it implies at the top the rules are new since last week. Are there any new rules? What's the difference between this and the old rulebook?
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The substance has not changed since the release about a year ago. That release was the first major revision since 2016. The update this month was a few minor changes, but the entire document was cleaned up. It is in Word and it had accumulated many, many little wrinkles. Or, I hope no changes were introduced by accident in the cleanup.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The substance has not changed since the release about a year ago. That release was the first major revision since 2016. The update this month was a few minor changes, but the entire document was cleaned up. It is in Word and it had accumulated many, many little wrinkles. Or, I hope no changes were introduced by accident in the cleanup.
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What were the minor changes?
 
GideonF said:
What were the minor changes?
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The main changes were that the WPA decided that players should always be referred to as athletes.

Also, at blackball, the positions of all the reds/yellows/black were specified correctly but the red/yellow was reversed. It seems -- I've never played it -- that all blackball racks must look identical.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The main changes were that the WPA decided that players should always be referred to as athletes.

Also, at blackball, the positions of all the reds/yellows/black were specified correctly but the red/yellow was reversed. It seems -- I've never played it -- that all blackball racks must look identical.
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“An athlete is a person who is trained or skilled in physical exercises, games, or sports that require strength, speed, stamina, or agility, and who frequently competes in organized events.”

mehhhhhhhh okay i’ll let it slide on account of the stamina. i dont think we need strength speed or agility for this particular table game.

athletes it is.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The main changes were that the WPA decided that players should always be referred to as athletes.

Also, at blackball, the positions of all the reds/yellows/black were specified correctly but the red/yellow was reversed. It seems -- I've never played it -- that all blackball racks must look identical.
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yeah both popular rulesets for English pool (Blackball and International Rules) have standardised set up for the balls, as did world rules which came before them, though their set up was slightly different(I've never gotten out of the habit of setting up the balls for world rules then swapping 2 of the balls). Having come from the background I find it weird not specifying how the balls should start, you know the set up should give a fair split and it's one less thing for players to argue about.
 
pool is a sport. but pool players are not athletes.

when you start putting shit in rules then the whole book of rules follows suit.
 
Here's some athletes playing pool



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maha said:
pool is a sport. but pool players are not athletes.

when you start putting shit in rules then the whole book of rules follows suit.
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I think pool is a game.
This has been debated for a long-time game or sport???????????
 
measureman said:
I think pool is a game.
This has been debated for a long-time game or sport???????????
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I'd say first you need to define sport:

Cambridge Dictionary:
"a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job"

Merriam Webster:
"a physical activity engaged in for pleasure"

Collins:
"Sports are games such as football and basketball and other competitive leisure activities which need physical effort and skill."

All mention physical effort or activity, there is undeniably some physical activity in pool and the physical activity does effect your success. I suppose what decides whether it's a sport or a game depends on your threshold for how much activity is involved to cross the line from it being a game to a sport.

But if we can have motor sports as an accepted term I don't think it's unreasonable to have cue sports accepted too.
 
uk_9_ball_convert said:
I'd say first you need to define sport:

Cambridge Dictionary:
"a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job"

Merriam Webster:
"a physical activity engaged in for pleasure"

Collins:
"Sports are games such as football and basketball and other competitive leisure activities which need physical effort and skill."

All mention physical effort or activity, there is undeniably some physical activity in pool and the physical activity does effect your success. I suppose what decides whether it's a sport or a game depends on your threshold for how much activity is involved to cross the line from it being a game to a sport.

But if we can have motor sports as an accepted term I don't think it's unreasonable to have cue sports accepted too.
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and olympic shooting. i guess bow archery is different but when i did regular rifle shooting that surely didn't feel more of a sport than pool.
 
It’s a sport that doesn’t require a host of athletic skills, but does test a few like coordination, it requires physical execution unlike the games chess or poker. I don’t view figure skating as a sport as it is judged. That is why it is called artistic skating in some circles. But it requires a lot of athleticism. Ballet is not a sport but requires a lot of athletic ability.

While I view pool as a sport I admit I have a hard time calling the players athletes with a straight face.
 
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