I am suggesting that one does not make the comparison of accidently moving more than one ball, with intentionally raking the balls with the cue stick. Intentionally raking the balls is an act of conceding the game, plus could carry further penalties, and yes it does happen. Schmidt did this in a CWO tournament and the head ref. told me about it and he was very mad with himself for not docking Schmidt a game for the unsportsmanlike act.
DCC tournament goes by bcapl general rules, but does have the ability to alter rules in governing their own tournament. In bcapl cue ball foul only rules; it is a foul to accidently disturb more than one ball even though there is no effect upon the shot, and there is no restoration option.
The restoration part of it has been long disputed to the rule committee by ref's and members, that the restoration option should be allowed. Their argument is if there is no effect upon the shot then the restoration should be allowed. The rule committee's argument back is that; since the player receives ball in hand any where on the table it could offset any rare scenario that the balls could be left in a critical loss situation for the opponent.
IMO there should be an opponent's option to move the balls back, and this is why; say I disturb more than one ball, and one of which is the opponent's ball, and what would of been a open shot has now turned into a losing situation through no fault of the opponent. Or an opponent's ball that was open, and then I accidently raked my cue sideways on the shot and my balls accidently now have covered up his lone game winning ball, and now my opponent is in a no win situation. One can think of scenarios for OP also.
Here is a little know fact about bcapl! In which the rule committee has darn near sit their self up as god.
1.33 Disturbed Ball (cue ball foul only)
7. It is a foul if:
a. you disturb the cue ball;
b. you disturb more than one object ball;
c. a disturbed ball contacts any other ball;
c. you disturb a ball that is in motion.
Your opponent has no restoration option. If the game-winning ball is disturbed in conjunction with a violation of (a) through (d) and falls into a pocket, it is a loss of game.
Ok, in 8-ball then yes the game winning ball pocketed this way would be a loss, but they are applying this rule to 'All' games under their domain, including OP and Straight Pool. Here is an example of their godly act; Say I am playing 9-ball and I accidently disturb a ball and it then contacts the 9 and it falls in a hole, by this rule it is a loss of game.
We all know there is only two ways to lose in 9-ball; the 3 foul rule or by the opponent making the 9-ball, well my friends the bcapl has invented a new 3rd way, and it applies to all games. You'll need to visit bcapl AR's to get the full rule of rule 7. !
I know this is a long post but there is more to this stuff than what meets the eye. Whitey