Referees;
Why is it so difficult to aquire refereeing skills and then the personnel to officiate matches?
Why do the rules have to be so different from one table to another? Why do promoters have to have tournament specific rules? The players meeting should be to inform players of rule changes, if any, and answer format questions.
"T" ball baseball has referees, Pee Wee football has referees.
Why can't pool matches have referees.
"All Ball fouls" is played every where in the world except in the USA. Why, because that is the way pool has always been played. Only the USA had to bastardize the rules.. to get people to play the game.
To learn the game, you have to also learn the rules. To play in a tournament you also have to know the rules. It says so in the rule book, "it is the players responsibility to know the rules".