Foul or not, YMTK.

[BC21]

I contacted a team of scientist at Berkeley and I have watched the video at various speeds, angles, body positions and speculated some and with all of that I can definitively say we don't know.............. Real answer no rail, close but I think it was a foul.

Damn! Lol! Then it's official.

 

[pt109]

I contacted a team of scientist at Berkeley and I have watched the video at various speeds, angles, body positions and speculated some and with all of that I can definitively say we don't know.............. Real answer no rail, close but I think it was a foul.

Damn! Lol! Then it's official.

You know that Berkeley is Mr Jewitt’s Alma Mater.
They don’t actually examine any billiard problems there....
...they just call Bob

 

[Bob Jewett]

I contacted a team of scientists at Berkeley and I have watched the video at various speeds, angles, body positions and speculated some and with all of that I can definitively say we don't know.............. Real answer no rail, close but I think it was a foul.

Actually the study was farmed out to Lawrence Livermore Labs since they had a lot of spare compute cycles and they concluded that the shot was at the quantum mechanical limit for position determination because the ball was moving so slowly -- Heisenberg uncertainty principle at work.

No cat was certainly harmed during this investigation. Or maybe it was.

But is that a Ranger letting the cat out of the bag?

 

[2rgrbn]

2/75 was my unit in the service seems like I was much younger back than, I got out in 94. Upon further review answering the foul no foul question may never happen, it's impossible really, kind of like infinity, some things are hard to get a solid answer on. However I'm not sure that one can rest until the final ruling is made and I expect we will see some heated debates after the ruling. This whole situation is big, it's big and growing.

 

[alstl]

Just before it stopped it appeared to touch the rail and move slightly away from the rail. Good hit.

 

[ChrisinNC]

I think you’re right, it looks like the cue ball changes direction Just before the third diamond

Likely from when it crosses the slate seam - which is located 2-2/3 diamonds up from the end rail.

 

[billiardthought]

Likely from when it crosses the slate seam - which is located 2-2/3 diamonds up from the end rail.

Is it for certain that this table does not have a 1 piece slate?

 

[Bob Jewett]

Is it for certain that this table does not have a 1 piece slate?

I think that all tables that Diamond supplies to tournaments are one piece slate. It's a choice between 20 minutes and 3 hours of setup time.

 

[garczar]

Just before it stopped it appeared to touch the rail and move slightly away from the rail. Good hit.

Nope.........................

 

[2rgrbn]

Simimg had a different angle than the camera and she called it a foul, the majority here see it as no rail after contact, it was a foul

 

[BC21]

I think that all tables that Diamond supplies to tournaments are one piece slate. It's a choice between 20 minutes and 3 hours of setup time.

That's what I thought.