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For leagues, small tournaments, and casual play, is it All-Ball-Fouls or Cue-Ball-Fouls-Only in other parts of the world?
 
All-ball-fouls here in continental Europe. I guess this is only an issue in the US.
 
The best way to handle fouls here in US is like Mike Zuglan's rules on Joss Tour. If you bump a object ball setting up to shoot tell your opponent and they can set it back. If you bump a ball while shooting it's a foul. Simple enough. If you don't call a ref to watch and they foul, the call goes to the shooter if they don't admit to fouling. If they fouled karma will get them sooner or later.
 
It appears that it is "fouls on all balls" in casual, league, and tournament play, everywhere else in the world, except here in the USA. Do I have this right?
 
Paul Schofield said:
It appears that it is "fouls on all balls" in casual, league, and tournament play, everywhere else in the world, except here in the USA. Do I have this right?
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Pretty much. At the last rules conference for the WPA World Standardized Rules, the preliminary draft had no mention of "cue ball fouls only". I'm told that was put back in (in the Regulations, not the Rules section) at the request of the US.

I'm not sure what they do in the Philippines. I've seen them mark balls for possible replacement in casual matches on YouTube.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Pretty much. At the last rules conference for the WPA World Standardized Rules, the preliminary draft had no mention of "cue ball fouls only". I'm told that was put back in (in the Regulations, not the Rules section) at the request of the US.

I'm not sure what they do in the Philippines. I've seen them mark balls for possible replacement in casual matches on YouTube.
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Thanks, Bob.

Maybe Jay can shed light on the rule in the Philippines.
 
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