Internet Equal Offense Billiard Rules

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Internet Equal Offense Billiard Rules

Internet equal offense billiards is a pool game where players from all over the world post their team's equal offense billiard scores on the internet. Yes, equal offense billiards is a game that is sanctioned by the Billiard Congress of America. This organization maintains the official rules for Equal offense.

Due to the nature of the game of equal offense, players and teams do not need to be in the same location to compete against each other. This is where equal offense billiards becomes internet equal offense billiards. The internet is used only to post and compare each team's score in a central place. Equal offense players and teams data-enter their scores from their location, and the team with the highest individual score is the winner.

All of this discussion about internet equal offense billiard rules may have you thinking that you can not verify the validity of a score that is posted by any one group. You may also be asking how other groups can verify scores posted by the others. Well, the answer is that you can not verify scores in internet equal offense billiards.

There was at one time an attempt to introduce video verification of scoring, however, when this was implemented, it was proved ineffective. (Although, here at the billiards forum, we feel that with youtube.com and other video sharing services, one could easily record and post their games.) Local referees have also been considered, but nothing has ever panned out in that area due to the logistics of such a thing.

Because of the failed attempts to implement score verification, internet equal offense rules and the game accompanying them remains a "good will" game. This may be the reason that there are no prize winnings at the world level. Internet sources, however, say that local prize offerings are encouraged.

Tournaments for internet equal offense billiards are typically held quarterly, that is, between three and four times per year. These quarterly tournaments usually coincide with local tournament and league seasons. As of the writing of these internet equal offense rules (May 2008) the next scheduled tournament is August 29th at 12:00 pm (noon) - Central Time.

Internet equal offense typically costs zero dollars to participate in, beyond your regular fees which exist outside of the internet portion of the game. The organization which maintains the web pages which gather and publish tournament results makes it a point to note that "sanctioning each event with the BCA and maintaining the Internet Equal Offense web page and promotions are not free so contributions are welcome." Typically, teams should have a computer terminal with internet access that is placed close to the playing area so that scores can be posted in a semi-real-time fashion.

Internet equal offense tournaments usually last two hours in such situations where there are two tables, the innings last five minutes, and the number of total innings is around 50. It should be noted, however, that higher-scoring tournaments can last up to four hours. The internet billiard chat rooms and forums, such as the one on this web site, are best for finding other internet equal offense players. The official internet equal offense site suggests inquiring in the newsgroup rec.sport.billiard but come on - this isn't 1998. (in fairness to the official site, it's copyright is dated 2002, and it's currently 2008, so there may not have been updates in the past 6 years.)

Internet Equal Offense Billiard Rules

The internet equal offense billiard rules article was posted on 5/10/2008 10:44:00 PM and updated on 5/10/2008 10:44:00 PM. The internet equal offense billiard rules article was edited by Billiards Forum Editor.

Internet Equal Offense Billiard Rules

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The internet equal offense billiard rules are predominently observed in North America.

The governing body for internet equal offense billiard rules is the Billiard Congress of America.

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