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Hot Jimmi update

The Hotness family, Jimmi and Dawn, have produced a third child, a peanut of a daughter.  Pix may be found here, possibly if you have Facebook:

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=34566&id=1061764493

Send your congratulations!

Carl Reilly update

I had some email with Carl today (9/28/09)- he sent me a link of some sweet SoCal ultimate between two teams that used to be a single team.  Good stuff at a club sectional level.  He and Cameron are out of Wisconsin for the forseeable future.  Here’s the video:

OCD vs In-n-Out (formerly combined as Rocket Sauce)

Derek King update

Derek probably can’t make it Tuesdays but may be able to make it on Sundays.

Ian Kincaid update

Fall league + out of town quite a bit.  Will try to make it one of these days.

All others: send me an update if you’ve got it goin’ on

In the July episode of “Don’t be a tool,” a discussion ensued about where to put the disc in play after a pull that rolled out through the back of the end zone.

Andy Patten successfully argued that the disc should be put in play at the goal line.  Let’s see what the rules say:

VIII.6. If the pull hits the ground or an out-of-bounds area untouched, it is put into play as follows:

b) If the disc initially hits in-bounds and then becomes out-of-bounds before being touched by the receiving team, it is put into play at the spot on the playing field proper (i.e., excluding the end zones) nearest to where it first crossed the perimeter line to become out-of-bounds.

c) If the disc initially hits in-bounds and then becomes out-of-bounds after being touched by the receiving team, it is put into play at the spot on the playing field nearest to where it first crossed the perimeter line to become out-of-bounds.

The difference between (b) and (c) is that if a “rolly” rolls through the endzone untouched, it gets put in play at the goal line.  The “field proper” is defined in III.B. as the playing field excluding the end zones.  I believe that (c) means that if the frisbee is touched then goes out of bounds, you have to play it where it goes out, including the back of the end zone since III.B distinguishes the playing field as including the end zone unless it is qualifed as the playing field proper.

In other words, the right things happened.

In the May episode of “Don’t be a tool” it is revealed that how we played my end-zone drop was, indeed, correct (that is to say, yes, I was wrong, but didn’t mind ):

XI. Scoring

A. A goal is scored when an in-bounds player catches any legal pass in the end zone of attack, and retains possession of the disc throughout all ground contact related to the catch.

Since ground contact jarred the disc loose, my score did not count, and that is how we played it.  Well done!

On the subject of catching the throw-off when it is out of bounds, I find the following may be the most applicable guidance:

VIII. Starting and Restarting Play

6. If the pull hits the ground or an out-of-bounds area untouched, it is put into play as follows:

a) If the disc initially hits and remains in-bounds, it is put into play where it comes to rest or is stopped

(XVI.E).

b) If the disc initially hits in-bounds and then becomes out-of-bounds before being touched by the receiving team, it is put into play at the spot on the playing field proper (i.e., excluding the end zones) nearest to where it first crossed the perimeter line to become out-of-bounds.

c) If the disc initially hits in-bounds and then becomes out-of-bounds after being touched by the receiving team, it is put into play at the spot on the playing field nearest to where it first crossed the perimeter line to become out-of-bounds.

d) If the disc initially hits an out-of-bounds area, the receiving team may put the disc into play:

(1) at the spot determined by IX.H; or

(2) after signaling for a brick or middle by fully extending one hand overhead and calling “brick” or “middle” before gaining possession of the disc, either at

(a) the brick mark closest to the end zone that the receiving team is defending if “brick” was called, or

(b) the spot on the long axis of the playing field proper nearest to the spot determined by IX.H if “middle” was called.

7. If the pull is caught, the disc is put into play at the spot on the playing field nearest to where it was caught.

The above says that using the brick call is only applicable if the frisbee was untouched in the process of becoming out-of-bounds.  Again, this was played correctly in that I believe Trevor played the frisbee from the back of the end zone after catching it (in accordance with point #7, above).

Yay!