Rules And Regulations

General League Rules

• Your E-mail address must be kept current on the site, 'USER EDITOR' if you need to change it.

• Your Ladder name must match the name you use in the lobby and play your matches under exactly.

• No racial or sexual offensive ids will be allowed in 8ballhustlers league. If your id is objectional the admins will contact you and ask you to change your id. If you refuse your id will be removed from the ladder.

• If you are playing league games it is illegal to refuse matches based on Ladder rank. You may not refuse a valid challenge simply because the challenger is not the rank you are wanting to play.

• Do not accuse or imply that anyone is using a cheat program such as an auto aimer, pool buddy, etc. at a table, in ims or in the lobby. Any suspicions should be reported to an admin. Accusations may cause you to lose your membership in the league.

• Do not use intentional safeties. If your opponent plays a safety, then please don't shoot and invite the TD to the table. Safties include, but are not limited to.....Tapping your ball softly to hide the cue...Intentionally scratching without touching your ball when that leaves your opponant without a shot at their ball. This rule applies in all lg games and tny games.

• You can only play the same person 3 times each day. You can play as many different people as you'd like on any given day. You may play TOP 10 "3X DAILY" only for league games. This was added because some were not happy with the ONCE DAILY rule that was in force. This does not count in tourneys. 

• No member has to play the same person 3 times a day. If both players want to thats fine but no one HAS to play that many.

• If your opponent was disconnected from the game or the Internet entirely before your match is finished you must invite a staff member to the table to implement a timer on that person for 10 minutes, if there happens to be no staff member available in the room then invite 2 other league members as witness. You may not implement the timer on your own, a staff member or one of the other 2 members must do it. If by chance you are unable to get someone to room for a timer a rematch should be scheduled.

• Losses in league games are to be reported immediately after the game and before starting another league game. If the loser fails to report the loss, please email or message him/her as a reminder. After 24 hours or when you see the person continuing to play league games and/or tourney games, whichever shall first occur, the winner can file an unreported match. Failure to report and continuing to play league games will result in a penalty and other possible actions. After 24 hours from the notice to the loser, if no reply is received, the game will be posted according to yahoo profiles.

• Absolutely no fighting in the lobby. This includes name calling, excessive cussing, racial slurs, and/or religious slurs. This rule applies to fighting with other league members as well as fighting with non league members.

• 8 BALL on break is a rerack in all league games and tourneys except Shoot the 8.

• Intentionally room iming someone while that person is in a league and/or tourney game to make them miss a shot will NOT be tolerated.

General Tny Rules

• You must move the cue ball on the break unless told other wise the by T.D. running the tournament.

• The name of the first player in the pairings will be the one to make the table in all tournament games. The second player may invite if they wish but for the purposes of timers the first name will be responsable for making the table and will be the one put on a timer if the match is not started.

• Never room im a person while they are in a tny unless the message is extremely important.

• Table type must match what the td spams in the lobby.

• ALL TIMERS IN A TOURNAMENT ARE TO BE SET FOR 10 MINUTES.

• No timer will be started until the round has been spammed in the lobby .

• You may play in another pool game during a tny. If you are playing another game you must make the tny game top priority, if you cause a delay in the tny the td may ask you to stop the other game and if you continue to cause delays the td may dq you from that tny.

• RESPECT MUST BE SHOWN AT ALL TIMES TO OTHER 8BALLHUSTLER MEMBERS, TD'S, HTD'S, AND ADMINS.

Tny Rules for All Staff Members

• ALL RULES USED BY TD'S IN TOURNAMENTS MUST MATCH.

• Please do not use caps when another T.D. is running a tournament .

• If a tournament is in progress do not spam your tny on messenger until finals are OVER.

• If any td schedules a tny, they MUST be in Wild Side at least 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. If the td is not here and another td decides to run a tny, the scheduled tny will be moved back in time. Do not get upset at the td who moved the tny as members need tnys to play in.

• If you want to spam your tournament in the lobby ask the T.D. running the current tournament first.

• If ANY player taps the ball or uses a safty, they are to automatically give the other player ball in hand.

• Please always check in the lobby before your make a new tournament to be sure another T.D. is not in the process of making one.

• Spam any special rules for your tny before each round in the lobby.

• During a tny the td who made the tny is to deal with any disputes that may arise. The td may ask for help from any htd or admin..

• These rules are subject to change so you need to check this page every few weeks. Most changes will be sent to you in an email.

Penalties for breaking rules