Will 9 ball be a dead game in 5 years?

[Jude Rosenstock]

You see winner breaks...

You see alternate break....

You never see LOSER breaks...

I think loser breaks would be ideal. It's not like with alternating break where you can scratch on your break and then be down 3-0 with the necessity to hope that your opponent then screws up to get back in it.

Every time you win a game, the opponent has a chance to come back. If they come back and play good, then you have a chance again yourself.

It will never happen because it eliminates packages completely, but I think it is the ultimate test of skill, especially in short races.

Jaden

I also think Loser Breaks needs to be revisited. The only problem I see with it is, mounting a comeback becomes increasingly difficult since the moment you start to win, you're handing back the break to the set-leader. With that said, the same issue is true with basketball and football. If you're down by 21 going into the last 5 minutes of the game and you score a touchdown, you have to give the ball back to the team with the lead. With that said, in loser breaks, if someone is winning by a landslide, they obviously haven't done a whole lot of breaking so they might not have figured out how to break on that table yet.