OK I admit all of your posts are funny to read :grin: now back to the subject. So you say you were all casual players once and played by public rules, but now, when you decided to switch to official, they suddenly stopped making sense and we are lunatics for making this kind of guide? You're asking us to give you some of the reasons for writing the manual besides the fact that over 95% of pool players worldwide (who aren't planning to switch to official rules) could find this guide more useful in their everyday matches than all professional books combined.
PGHteacher pointed out one important issue. His post is maybe the only one making sense (all you other guys just trash talk) because he at least confessed the world of pool is divided between few pros and masses of casual and amateur players. But the difference is that he sees this situation as "the dark ages of this sport", while we consider it a new era of 8 Ball, in which the public rules will finally be united and the influence of conservative players and organizations, led by WPA and BCA, will inevitably decline.
Now you're probably asking yourself: "Why the hell would we want these organizations to lose power?" If we started explaining in details, it would take hours. Unfortunately, none of us has the time right now. In short, let's put it this way. If you compare standardized public rules (in the guide) with the official ones, you'll come to a conclusion they're clearly superior in every term. Now you're certainly thinking we're talking nonesense again. And believe me, if somebody had told me two or three years ago that official 8 Ball is old and outdated, I'd have thought he was crazy as well. But if you read the guide carefully instead of talking crap about it after looking at first two pages, you'll see this kind of play broadens the game in all aspects.
Firstly, the rules are less strict, allowing a lot more different moves play styles, but they still remain perfectly balanced. We didn't make them up, we've been watching their efficiency for years. We've talked to several expert players (some of them used to be pros like you, and one guy even won some important international tournament) and they all find public rules better than official, despite playing many professional matches. Although you can repeat we're wrong as many times as you want, we proved that the absence of shot calling makes the games a lot better, more fun, and actually much more challenging to play. We'll explain it better another time.
Secondly, there are many significant improvements in technique. We have both ADS and SFH shooting stances, a wider array of shooting modes, many different styles of shooting etc. Also, in professional matches players usually stick to low-powered shots, but in public matches all power levels are equally important. Also, due to existence of both technically demanding and technically simple types of shots, players with inferior technique are capable of defeating superior ones using right strategies, which adds a new dimension to the game.
Thirdly, tactics are now based both on planning and probability and players are required to balance between the two in order to beat their opponents. There are four main strategies, with strategy-counter-strategy relations (similar to rock, paper and scissors). All players are free to develop their play styles the way they want to, investing in skills and knowledge they find personally useful. Instead of adapting themselves to the game (like in official 8 Ball), they need to adapt the game to themselves if they want to come out on top.
Now, if you can find logical counter-arguements for every main improvement we mentioned (and we didn't even scratch the surface), this debate can finally start making sense. And we have a lot to talk about during the next days, maybe weeks...
So where is the proof I requested? If you don't have any just say so and we can all move on from the ramblings of an idiot.
Here since you must have missed it I'll ask it again in detail:
Before rambling on more about how your techniques are correct and how there are 30,000,000 players that agree and play by your rules please show us a document or other type of proof that this is fact.
If it is not fact or you are unable to produce proof of any kind to back up your statement I would further ask that you stop spreading this kind of 'knowledge' to others.
Also, who is this pro that has won an international event? I can guarantee that multiple people on here know him if he really is a pro and it would be interesting to get him in this thread to see what he thinks of your guide.
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