Equal Offense is based on 14.1 Continuous, also known as straight pool, and the rule about the fifteenth ball of the rack applies to Equal Offense: when only one ball is left on the table, you rack the other balls leaving the apex ball out. When you pocket the last ball you try at the same time to open up the pack, to make it possible to make the five balls you need to complete the maximum twenty. See 14.1 rules “Rules of Play” for details.
Once you’ve made the five extra balls, rerack the 15 balls and start over again.
Rules courtesy of Internet Equal Offense FAQ’s.
If I did actually get those extra five balls, I wouldn’t want to re-rack at only 20 points… I would have to try to continue the run and see how far I could go to a personal best high run. You just never know when it’s going to appear!
Internet Equal Offense is a variant of 14.1 Continuous which sounds like the game you’d prefer playing.
The differnce with Internet Equal Offense is that a players scores is limited to 20 and 10 innings are played.
Also a big part of Internet Equal Offense as I understand it is that the game is played on the Internet with teams from arround the globe.
One day I would love to play Internet Equal Offence, but then again, I would also like to be able to run 20 balls.
Mike