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• In Call Pocket, obvious balls and pockets do not have to be indicated. It is the opponent’s right to ask which ball and pocket if he is unsure of the shot. Banks and combinations are not considered obvious and both the object ball and the pocket must be called or it is loss of turn. When calling the shot, it is NEVER necessary to indicate details such as the number of cushions, banks, kisses, caroms, etc. Any balls pocketed on a foul remain pocketed, regardless of whether they belong to the shooter or the opponent (exception Rule E: 8).
  
• The opening break is not a “called pocket.” Any team performing a break shot in Scotch Doubles 8‐Ball may continue to shoot their next shot so long as they legally pocketed any object ball on the break and they alternate turns (Rule E:8).
• When a team has pocketed all of the balls in their group, they then shoot at the 8‐ball, physically designating the pocket with a pocket marker. The marker is to be placed on the table completely within the first two diamonds on either side of the pocket. The entire area between the diamonds included. You do not have to touch or move the marker if it is already at your intended pocket.

Note: All infractions must be called before the next shot is taken. Only the players involved in the game may call an infraction. 

• On all shots (exception on the break), the shooter must hit one of his group of balls first and (1) pocket any group ball, or (2) cause the cue ball or any other ball to contact a rail (there are two groups of balls: stripes and solids).
• PLEASE NOTE: It is permissible for the shooter to bank the cue ball off a rail before contacting his object ball; however, after contact with his object ball, any group ball must be pocketed, OR the cue ball or any other ball must contact a rail. 
• “SAFETY” SHOT: For tactical reasons a player may choose to pocket an obvious object ball and also discontinue his turn at the table by declaring his intention not to shoot again (“safety”, “Just a shot”, “No Call”) in advance. A safety shot is defined as a legal shot. If the shooting player intends to play safe by pocketing an obvious object ball, then prior to the shot, he must declare this to his opponent. If this is NOT done, and one of the shooter’s object balls is pocketed, the shooter will be required to shoot again. Any ball pocketed on a safety shot remains pocketed.

1. All fouls must be called and acknowledged before next shot is taken (except scratching). The following results in fouls:
2. Failure to switch players after each shot. 
3. Failure to make a legal shot as noted above. 
4. Shooting the cue ball into a pocket or off table. 
5. It is a foul when a player scratches on the break, or deflects the cue ball prior to hitting the racked balls. The incoming player receives (Cue ball in hand behind the headstring). 
6. When placing the cue ball in position, any forward stroke motion contacting the cue ball will be a foul, if not a legal shot. 
7. Shooting without at least one foot touching the floor. 
8. Object Ball Frozen To Cushion or Cue Ball. This applies to any shot where the cue ball’s first contact with a ball is with one that is frozen to a cushion or to the cue ball itself. After the cue ball makes contact with the frozen ball, the shot must result in either: 
• a. A ball being pocketed, or; 
• b. The cue ball contacting a cushion, or; 
• c. The frozen ball being caused to contact a cushion attached to a separate rail, or; 
• d. Another object ball being caused to contact a cushion with which it was not already in contact. 
• Failure to satisfy one of those four requirements is a foul.
9. A ball which is touching a cushion at the start of a shot and then is forced into a cushion attached to the same rail is not considered to have been driven to that cushion unless it leaves the cushion, contacts another ball, and then contacts the cushion again. An object ball is not considered frozen to a cushion unless it is examined and announced as such by either the referee or one of the players prior to that object ball being involved in a shot. 
10. ACCIDENTALLY moving or touching any ball is not a foul unless: 
• a. the moved ball is the cue ball or
• b. a moved ball makes contact with the cue ball or 
• c. a moved ball that is jumped off the table or pocketed or causes any ball to be jumped off the table or pocketed (exception to c: If the 8-ball is jumped off the table or pocketed it is loss of game if called by the opponent before the next shot is taken). Only opponent may replace the ball moved as closely as possible or leave it where it rests. If the shooter replaces the moved ball, it will be considered a foul. 
11. Picking up or shooting the cue ball while any balls are still in motion is a foul. 
12. Push shots and or double hits will be considered fouls and may only be called by the referee.
13. With cue ball in hand, touching any object ball with the cue ball is a foul or touching any object ball with your hand while touching the cue ball is a foul. 
14. When the slow play rule is enforced taking longer than ONE MINUTE between shots is a foul. 
15. Jumping object balls off the table (21).
16. After a scratch on a legal break, if a player positions the cue ball completely and obviously outside the kitchen and shoots it is a foul. 
17. If your opponent commits a foul and you do not receive his/her acknowledgement of such foul prior to touching the cue ball you have committed a foul (exception: scratching).
18. Illegal jumping of ball. 
19. While a match is in progress or during an allowed time-out, any player involved in the match practicing on the match table or any other table is not allowed.  Taking any shot that is not part of the match is a foul. 
    
20. Shooting while any ball is in motion.
21. Marking the table with any item indicating where a player should shoot is a foul if the item is not removed before the shot is made.
22. While shooting if a player causes a ball to leave the playing surface (roll along the edge of the table) and it comes into contact with any object on the side of the table it is a foul and his opponent will have ball in hand anywhere on the table (except on the break). Any ball that rolls along the edge of a table and returns to the table on its own is not considered a foul.
23. While shooting and pocketing a legal ball if the ball comes into contact with any object on the side of the table it shall be considered a foul and the opponent will have ball in hand anywhere on the table. Exception on the break when the opponent has ball in hand behind the headstring or if while pocketing the black then it shall be loss of game.

Cancellations must be emailed to the Corporate Challenge office. If a team must cancel their participation in a sport, the Penalties are as follows: 

LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION: (Within 48 hours of your event start time)

Teams that provide written notification (by email) that they are canceling out of an event within 48 hours of the start of the event will be penalized 5 points. A company with participants who register at the event but are unable to register an eligible team will be considered a cancellation and the penalty will apply. 

NO SHOWS: (No notification of cancellation)

A No Show will result in a 10-point deduction and disqualification from that sport for the following year. A NO SHOW is a team that has not provided any notification that their team is not participating in an event prior to start time of the event.

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