Cardiff RSL Club Rules of Pool Comp

Before Competition

Players must be or be over 18 years old
Names and entry fee of $4 must be paid to the tournament director before 7pm.

By having your name registered and entry fee paid indicates that you understand the following rules and will obey them for the duration of the competition. Tournament Director has the right to withdraw a player from the tournament that continually break these rules.
Any disputes are to be brought to the Tournament director whose decision is final.
Players are asked to be ready to play when their pairings are announced and commence the game as soon as possible.
Players will have only 4 minutes to be at the nominated table and ready to play after pairings have been announced or the game will be forfeited and will result in a loss of one game.
Winner must notify Tournament Director of the match result & rack the next game for that table

Names will be randomly drawn for match pairings
Tournament will be Double Elimination. Tournament Director can change the format to single elimination before the competition starts if there are more than 16 players
All games are Best of One (Bo1), Final is Bo3 (Game 16 ) or (Game 32).
Double Elimination is a competition in which a player ceases to be eligible to proceed to the next round upon having lost TWO games.
After the First round the competition will be broken into two sets of brackets. Winners Bracket & Losers Bracket.
Final of the Double Elimination is a possible Two games (BO3 then BO1). The undefeated player of the Winners Bracket cannot be eliminated with the first loss. Losers Bracket winner must win the BO3 then the game goes into a BO1 to decide the competitions winner and runner up. Winners Bracket Champion needs only to win the BO3.

The player to break the balls will be decided by toss of a coin. Winner of the toss decides who breaks
The balls are racked with the Black ball in the centre of the triangle with the first ball of the rack on the foot spot. A Stripe ball in one bottom corner and a Solid in the other
The cue ball is to be placed and played from on the line at the head of the table
When the choice of groups (Stripe or Solid) has not yet been determined, the table is open. It is legal to hit solid first to make a stripe or vice-versa.
If a player pots more than one ball of different combinations when the table is open, continue the break and play the ball that fell first.
If a player legally pots their own ball and their opponents ball, continue the break with no penalty
Players are not to intentionally foul. Continually making Intentional foul shots may result in disqualification from the tournament at the Tournament Directors discretion.
The player must hit one of their own group of balls first (except when table is open)
If the cue ball is potted or comes off the table, the ball must be place and played from on the line at the head of the table and directed towards the foot of the table.
Jump shots are not permitted

A player pots the black ball before colour balls are potted. Result in a loss
Player is going for black and goes in-off after potting black. Result in a loss
A player wins after they legally pocket the Black ball, after all their object balls have been pocketed
Can’t intentionally hit your opponent’s ball onto the Black ball to pocket the Black ball. Cannot win by making a foul shot. Result will be a loss.
When both players are on the Black ball any foul made will result in a loss, i.e. miss the Black, pot the cue, either black or cue ball comes off the table.