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Scratchball rules are relatively new in the world of cue sports. The scratchball rules are broken into two main parts; general scratchball rules and tournament scratchball rules. With the exception of a scratch not being considered a foul shot, Billiard Congress of America (BCA) General Rules of Pool apply to ScratchBall billiards.
The object of scratchball is to actually pocket the cue ball. Scratchball is played with a set of scratchball billiard balls which consists of 14 black balls, one orange ball, and one cue ball. Balls are racked as they are with 8 ball, with the orange ball in the center of the rack. See the diagram below.
The object of scratchball billiard rules is to scratch while you sink the counter balls or the dead ball in order to gain points. When you fail to scratch in a game of scratchball billiards, your inning ends, and the next player approaches the billiard table. The game of scratchball is best played with two to three players.
As you can see, the scoring rules for scratchball billiards are fairly simple. Here are some of the other basic rules of scratchball billiards:
The scratchball tournament rules are the same as the official 8 ball rules, and the scoring is the same as the easy-play version of scratchball rules as listed above. Scoring is cumulative for each game, and the highest score after three games of play is granted the win.
When a player neglects to scratch in a game of scratchball pool rules, his or her turn ends. When a player commits a foul, his or her turn comes to an end.
The cue ball may follow any other ball into a pocket except on a reset shot. (see reset shot) When shooting the dead ball, the player must scratch and pocket it, otherwise their turn ends.
The player resets the cue ball anywhere on the table or the dead ball on the foot spot. On the reset shot, the object ball cannot be the dead ball. If the player shoots the dead ball or the dead ball is accidentally pocketed, that ends your turn. On the reset shot, if the cue ball goes in the same pocket as a counter ball then your turn is over.
When shooting the dead ball, the player must scratch and pocket the dead ball, otherwise his or her turn is terminated and he or she forfeits all points earned from that shot. In easy play rules the dead ball can be sunk by accident. With tournament rules, the dead ball must be a call shot. If the dead ball is sunk by accident, even if you scratch, you lose your turn and receive 0 points for the shot.
When one ball is left alone on the table, or the table is cleared, the game ends.
To break a tie game, the players compete in a game of sudden death scratchball. To begin the scratchball sudden death match, reset the table with only the dead ball and the cue ball, set the dead ball on the foot spot, and shoot the cue ball from behind the head string. Each scratchball sudden death player gets only one shot. The table is reset after each shot. After each player has a turn and the tie is not broken, another game of scratchball sudden death shall be executed. If it is still a tie game after 3 games of sudden death and the scratchball game is to be considered a stalemate.
There are several alternate rules for playing a game of scratchball billiards.
If you have any questions about scratchball billiard rules, please post them in our billiard rules forum.
The scratchball billiard rules article was posted on 7/9/2008 6:40:00 AM and updated on 7/9/2008 6:40:00 AM. The scratchball billiard rules article was edited by Billiards Forum Editor.
The information for the scratchball billiard rules article was sourced from David, scratchballbilliards.com Administrator, david@scratchballbilliards.com.
Here is a little history of the game. We, that is, the 3 Fenske brothers, were avid 8-ball players. Not necessarily good but players all the same. On one particularly bad game, we scratched so often that one of us said "If we could win by scratching, we'd be kings". And that started the thought process going. We searched the internet and couldn't find a game with those parameters so we made our own game. Now it is the only game we play so we decided to share it with the world to see if it would catch on. Because the game relies heavily on trying to sink the cue balls while sinking the object ball, it seems to have had a big impact on my playing skills especially with using side english. Selling of the regulation balls was a secondary idea. Probably not a lot of profit in that end but it makes the game look cool. That is about it for the story.
The scratchball billiard rules are predominently observed in North America.
ScratchBall Billiard Rules belong to the pocket billiards category of cue sports. Pocket billiards is a class of cue sport game commonly referred to as pool.
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