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This is not an APA rule, so I'm not sure which official rules you're referring to. The APA rule – which any APA league in the US uses – is that if you only pocket stripes or only solids on the break, you are stripes or solids respectively. If you sink one of each, it's still open. I'm not sure what the rule is if you sink two stripes and one solid, though I'm tempted to say it's still open.
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World Pool Association
Billiard Congress of America
Wiki page on 8-ball
wiki seems to suggest WPA is "official", and that's what i've always used, but it does seem the APA uses the
rule as you described
don't understand why you think the "automatic open table" rule is so bad though. but my original point was just to make clear that it isn't just a regional WV thing.