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Post by joefoxon on Aug 9, 2016 22:09:03 GMT
The group of dedicated players no longer play on Mondays. Vat and Fiddle no longer has their table, leaving only the Newshouse as the sole table actually in Nottingham.
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Post by joefoxon on Jul 20, 2015 10:04:13 GMT
Scores are now up on the York Bar Billiards website!
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Post by joefoxon on Jun 4, 2015 2:57:55 GMT
All the pubs are within walking distance of each other.
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Post by joefoxon on Jun 3, 2015 20:17:23 GMT
Well a couple of the pubs on the route have rooms, so have a look if they're in budget, otherwise look at a cheap hotel :)
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Post by joefoxon on Jun 3, 2015 15:59:04 GMT
I think just Northern Cities Cup or something simple like that?
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Post by joefoxon on May 25, 2015 23:14:25 GMT
I think a three-team tournament would be better, as we'd probably be expecting a lot of York players to show up!
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Post by joefoxon on May 24, 2015 10:52:28 GMT
Hi, I'm sure we could arrange some type of friendly match from Northants. If you give me some dates etc when you can get a team and we can see if we can sort something. Cheers Si. I don't remember what dates we gave to Sheffield, but it'd be great if you could come up at the same time for a tournament!
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Post by joefoxon on May 24, 2015 10:26:41 GMT
Hoping to also get some balls rolling in Hull and the Yorkshire coast in the near future!
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Post by joefoxon on May 24, 2015 10:04:33 GMT
I think while we still have only two leagues up here, it'd be best to stick with one county, it'd make organising our inter-league stuff easier too hopefully!
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Post by joefoxon on May 22, 2015 0:17:04 GMT
There's been a small amount of talk here about whether or not we should affiliate to the AEBBA, more as a goodwill gesture rather than with any kind of tournament-winning ambition. With this in mind, could it be worth considering holding a semi-friendly tournament up north to try and pique a bit more interest round here?
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Post by joefoxon on Mar 4, 2015 2:46:27 GMT
I don't think the Spring Bank Tavern is even open any more, let alone the owner of a table.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 26, 2015 12:21:24 GMT
So in that case, any professional foul rule would have to cover the ball left touching the pin as well, unless you assume that the ball would come back if it's touching.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 24, 2015 0:27:11 GMT
What hope for us if we, who have been playing the game for 40+ years, can't agree on the significance of the announcement of "touching ball" ! So, what do we tell Joe, who started this thread ? He may well have a point, and as BC has pointed out, Guernsey have their own rule for in the case of a professional foul. The means to get a rule amended or introduced is of course by making a proposal to go before the AEBBA AGM - which is 10 months away ! And of course to be considered in the first place you have to become an Affiliated County (by payment of a small fee). I'm sure others will be able to guide you on this. I don't think Yorkshire is quite at the standard where it's worth bothering to affiliate! My proposed rule doesn't cover the situation where the ball is left touching the skittle, although I think I was quoting the wrong rule earlier. I actually meant this one: Which we judge to mean that if the ball is touching, then the skittle can't be respotted.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 17:50:48 GMT
Looks like I'm mistaken, and a touching ball should be left in place:
103) Should a ball knock a skittle off its spot but the skittle does not fall over, the score shall count and the skittle should be replaced in its correct position before the next shot is played, unless prevented by a ball encroaching on the skittle’s correct position, in which case it should be replaced as soon as the spot is clear, see rule 114.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 16:54:19 GMT
The York league's interpretation is that if the ball is touching the pin at the end of he break, it comes back, although that's under the occupied spot rule, rather than the leaning rule. The assumption is that if a ball hits the pin, it must move very slightly due to the momentum of the ball.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 14:51:22 GMT
Pocketing the cue ball isn't the only foul I'm trying to cover here. Basically, my rule would go something like this: If the previous player's last shot was a foul and the incoming player is snookered on all balls as a result, the furthest ball from the back cushion shall be reset to the red spot. A ball is snookered if the player has no straight line shot to both sides of that ball. A foul and a professional foul are two different things. A professional foul would suggest no attempt to play a ball. This is where the grey areas start.... For a free ball to occur in snooker, you don't necessarily have to have a professional foul, but the free ball rule was created to avoid professional fouls.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 14:50:08 GMT
Simpler rule would be, as in snooker after a foul shot, that the following player has the right to make the player who fouled play again with the resulting position of the previous foul shot. If that happens, then the fouling player can just repeatedly foul and keep being asked to play again, until the other player gives up and has to take the shot him/herself.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 13:21:30 GMT
Pocketing the cue ball isn't the only foul I'm trying to cover here. Basically, my rule would go something like this:
If the previous player's last shot was a foul and the incoming player is snookered on all balls as a result, the furthest ball from the back cushion shall be reset to the red spot. A ball is snookered if the player has no straight line shot to both sides of that ball.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 23, 2015 2:50:48 GMT
Why is there no rule covering the 'professional foul', other than the one that only applies after the bar has dropped?
Maybe a rule similar to the "free ball" in snooker and pool could come into play, where if Player A is left without a clear straight-line shot at a ball after Player B's foul, then the furthest ball from the back cushion is returned to the red spot (this would not count as a break shot, as the red ball could be used as a cue ball).
If Player B left only one ball on the table, then Player A would essentially be playing from the break position (and would be entitled to do so four times rather than the usual three, due to Player A's first shot not counting as a "break shot").
If more than one ball is left on the table, then Player A has the opportunity to use those two balls from the break position to try and move the other balls into more playable positions.
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 22, 2015 1:18:22 GMT
I think the top 4 would be better! More likely to get on the news!
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Post by joefoxon on Feb 6, 2015 13:44:47 GMT
Well the season's come a long way since we last posted an update! We're now over half-way through the Winter league, and it's all very tense (unless you're in the Uni team!). Here's the table as we stand at the moment, with slightly under two months to go! Team | Pld | Pts | FD | Fulford Arms | 8 | 6 | +9 | Phoenix | 7 | 4 | +11 | Waggon and Horses | 7 | 4 | +11 | Golden Ball | 8 | 4 | +2 | Knavesmire | 8 | 4 | -1 | York Brewery | 7 | 3 | -9 | University | 7 | 1 | -24 |
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Post by joefoxon on Jan 23, 2015 1:41:36 GMT
We had a go at 'bizarre billiards' during one of our league matches, where we spotted a blue ball (triple score) in the middle of the table between the 50 holes and a black ball (quadruple score) about half an inch from the black pin. The games were played under four pin rules, and it was agreed that the blue and black should switch places, as it turned out the blue was the more difficult shot.
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Post by joefoxon on Dec 16, 2014 13:20:16 GMT
I think this one would be better for York as it's only coming from Hull. It doesn't seem to come with skittles, but it does say it comes with balls and scoreboard.
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 30, 2014 23:25:26 GMT
Another idea I've had would be to contact student unions and ask them if they want to loan a table for maybe a day or two and see what kind of interest they can get in the game. Students are embracing the real ale movement in quite large numbers, and judging by what's happening in York, quite the untapped resource.
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 30, 2014 21:55:15 GMT
Ok here is a serious one - for all Opens. Introduce a green ball (in place of one of the seven whites) that scores treble points. This green ball can only score points for the lower ranked player. You can't have different rules for each player. It doesn't sound like a very serious suggestion.
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 30, 2014 12:33:58 GMT
It helps to have an online presence other than a website. A lot of pubs are on Twitter and Facebook now, and this has proved very useful for us finding new venues.
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 30, 2014 10:54:06 GMT
I think that all a shortened version would do would let the experienced players have to take fewer shots to play the table out...
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 30, 2014 1:49:56 GMT
Just an update, Cambridge never got back to me, and I've heard nothing from Sheffield either.
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Post by joefoxon on Nov 13, 2014 4:03:50 GMT
Does anybody here know of any university teams other than York? I'd really like to get a national student competition going!
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Post by joefoxon on Oct 27, 2014 13:29:15 GMT
You mentioned that Nottingham had about 12 players. That would be enough for two teams. The York League was originally a series of derby matches, so it could kick something off having some regular games.
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