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Post by verb on Sept 20, 2012 4:55:56 GMT -5
...this is what the FISTF rules say:
"Providing the ball is stationary, a playing figure that has left the playing board shall be placed by the referee on the internal limit of the playing surface, off the touchline on the side where it has left the playing board, at the height of the middle-line."
I don't see a mention in the rules of a "middle-line." Do they mean center line? What if the player flies off the table over the goal-line?
Where do you guys place a figure when it goes off the table?
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Post by Daniel Cranston on Sept 20, 2012 7:59:15 GMT -5
Good question! Gotta love the way FISTF words it...
Doesn't matter where a figure goes off the table (most of the time it will be over the goal line because that is the only area where there is a gap in the wall around the table). Whenever a figure goes off the table it is reset on the center line/ middle line / kickoff line / whatever other wording you want to use for it.
Now when it is reset, the sideline you pick is based on where the figure went off the table. If it went off the table on the left half of the pitch, then it is reset on the left side line at the kickoff line.
When a player is reset, it is a rule that the player can't be used to force a throw in. Say I had the ball and your guy reset next to mine near a sideline. Then I wouldn't be allowed to force the ball off of your player and out of bounds to give myself a throw in because it went off of you last. The way this is enforced is when you reset the player that fell off or hit the wall, you place them more than a ball's length away from the sideline. That way you know that it can't be forced off of them. The logic being, well if you tried to force the ball off of them in the scenario I mentioned above, even if the ball hit the player that was reset, the ball would be out of bounds by the time it hit the player, therefore it isn't a force out, just a throw in for the other player.
I might have made it more confusing with the last paragraph, let me know if you need me to clarify further.
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Post by verb on Sept 20, 2012 9:10:12 GMT -5
That's the way I was reading the rule but I wanted to make sure.
I appreciate the response Daniel!
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