It looks bad and it can be dangerous. At one point launching object balls off the table was not a foul at pool.
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Agreed. The first time I heard and saw that the CB and an OB could be jumped off the table on purpose to achieve an advantage, I thought it was ridiculous. I still think it is ridiculous, regardless of what some gamblers and tournaments might think. If your opponent can place a ball so deep in their pocket that it can't be extracted, your opponent deserves the advantage, IMO.
At least one object ball?
Currently the WPA one pocket break rules are as simple as you can get: the break shot is like any other BIH shot and governed by the same rules.
I suppose the WPA needs a regulation for the rerack rule since some events play that way and need one.
(In the WPA rules and regulations, the Regulations cover optional ways to do things and dress code and shot clock and other things that are likely to vary or change, while the Rules are supposed to be more permanent.)
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I don’t really disagree, but I hate a player making a show of inspecting a rack with his nose like 3” from the balls. I was trying to figure an appropriate penalty but probably was too lenient.
Looking at the pdf, the only thing I'd really recommend (and it's really more layout than actual rules) is that all the sections on the individual games be put together. Having the more general sections on fouls, wheelchair use, and regulations (current sections 6–8) should be before all the game specific sections so it's clear it applies to all of them, while also not having the oddity of some games being before and some after. I figure it was done that way when ten-ball was added to avoid renumbering the existing rules, but with the addition of two new-to-the-WPA-rules games it's time to reorganize them.
Yes, I think it is time to rework the layout. All the game rules should be together. And the section on wheelchair/parasport competition probably belongs in the Regulations. Maybe on the next major revision.
TheRooster
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Yes, object ball. That was an oversight. Maybe “legally pocketed” would be another to way to say it. That would also cover the situation — which I forgot — of pocketing an object ball and also scratching. Rules are hard!
See 8.13 Position of Balls.
To make the connection to the definition of "position" in section 8.13 clear, the rules you quoted should say, "it is a foul to play the cue
ball from a position on or below the head string" and "the shot is a foul unless the position of the cue ball crosses the head string before that contact." Additionally, the word "position" in both those rules should be footnoted, with a footnote that says, "See 8.13 Position of balls", so that readers don't have to blindly go searching through the rules looking for a rule that might define when a ball is considered to be behind the head string.
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for me the whole ball is extremely easier to determine instead of some darkened area of the base of the ball which is an area where the ball contacts the table not an edge
@TheRooster nice job pointing out the jump cue rule not mentioned in these rules
and your other comparisons with the onepocket.org rules
too bad onepocket.org doesnt get more acknowledgement for their rules which have been the most often set of rules used for at least 20 years