US Open Racking....Thumbs Up Matchroom!

Allowing players to touch the balls is an opening for cheating.
In baseball pitchers have been caught with substances on balls.

Detecting foreign substances on pool balls is more challenging than in baseball.
 
Island Drive said:
Stu, I find it annoying seeing a ref, having to walk around table to each pocket, then roll em to the table foot, sometimes digging 4 balls out of one hole.
It still takes about 40 seconds + before each rack is collected then broke with the breaker helping, like we all do in mainstream home play.
That extra time, to me adds nothing helpful to the production.
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To each his own, my friend. We each have our preference. The use of the template slows the game down, too, but I don't want players to have to attend to the template it after the break. Watching a referee marking balls to remove the template looks absolutely ridiculous on stream, but if it must be used, setup and in-match maintenance of the equipment, to me, is the domain of the referee.

I think that professional players should be in a position to consider the play and the play alone. How it's handled in unstreamed matches is not as important to me as how it's handled when a production, like the US Open, is being broadcast worldwide.
 
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