I'm still not sure that the rules WERE to call all ten ball shots..
You want to spread blame around and take the responsibility away from Shane.
If Shane had attended the player's meeting;
If Shane had learned the rules for this tourney;
If Shane had followed those rules;
If Shane had called every 10 ball in every game against every opponent then he could eliminate a biased or incompetent ref from the equation and he could've eliminated his opponent from the equation.
Then this situation would not have occurred and we could go back to talking about the Mosconi cup failure.:smile:
ONB
No one has definitively answered what the rules were. We've heard that it was stated that they were playing WPA rules AND we've heard that it was stated that the ten ball must be called.
Here let me spell it out for you...
If the rule was EXPLICITLY stated as being call ALL ten balls, then Shane is at fault for not being aware of that rule by not either asking for a clarification of the rules or for not being at the player's meeting.
So let's go by that assumption then. Did Shane ask an official what rules they were playing and was he told WPA rules???
If so, then it was bad on the part of whoever told him what rules they were playing under.
Let's say he didn't...
It was STILL chickenshit of his opponent to not remind him of that after recognizing that he didn't call it the first time.
Also, it was stupid for the ref to call it after THREE times of not calling it on Shane and then to NOT call it on Busty.
I am NOT, nor have I in this thread taken the onus off of Shane.
He could have called it every time just to be sure there was no question.
I'll tell you one thing though, of all the tourneys I've watched and played in, this is the FIRST one that I've EVER heard of having to call obvious shots...EVER.
Jaden