ESPN WPBA Peoria Rounds

[DrCue'sProtege]

i was watching the tape of the WPBA Event in Peoria that was shown on ESPN last weekend, and Jeanette made a comment that was surprising to me.

forgive my spelling, but Xiaoting Pan made a jump shot, and Steve Tipton ruled it had struck the '9' Ball first instead of the '3' Ball. i slowed it down frame by frame, and he missed the call. Jeanette felt he missed the call, and made a comment that Pan should have "Contested" the call.

have never heard of anything like that before in a WPBA Event? can a player contest a call like Jeanette said? is Contesting a shot in the official WPBA By-Laws?

and forgive me if this topic has been discussed before.
DCP

 

[Njhustler1]

good question. i would imagine it's like other sports where you contest it with the officiating body after the match. they obviously can't overturn the match but they can formally acknowledge that the ref's call was a mistake though. but that's just a guess.

 

[Snapshot9]

I have seen it done before

in a tournament, where the players were more knowledgeable about Pool, than the referee was, and the referee called a 2nd referee over, listened to the players explanations, and then polled the railbirds for the call, and went with the majority.