The only way 9-ball would work is to have four-person teams and play rounds of scotch doubles. Maybe add in a few single-player matches. Kind of like the Mosconi Cup.
I guess you could play 9-ball with a 3-person team but it would be pretty awkward and not as entertaining as the interaction between two team mates.
Exactly, bdorman.
My point in my question was: to inject a current known game into Bonus Ball wouldn't work very well.
Bonus Ball was the perfect (new) game that worked as a real SPORT concept:
Teams, shot clock, rounds, do or die situations, etc.
One would have to change so many factors that Bonus (9) Ball would turn into a basic "scotch doubles" format.
In other words, a BEEN THERE, DONE THAT kind of thing.
A lot of the "haters" of BB don't know just how ingenious the Bonus Ball setup was.
But that's okay, let them go on with their as-a-matter-of-fact opinions.
Who knows, with all the sunk costs, the pioneers might come back and market it
from a different approach.
It wasn't the game itself that was bad, it was simply the scope of reach to the masses.
Anyways, thanks for responding.
