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Subject: Re: Dropped pulls
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More recently, the Druids have been playing in Denmark and Sweden, 
where the indoor rules state that the pull may be dropped without 
causing a turnover.(As Neil has already mentioned - we brought that 
rule home with us and applied it to the Newport tournament)

As John suggests, you *could* get more problems by doing this - mainly 
through people deflecting the disc back down the pitch for advantage. 
To my knowledge, this didn't happen at Newport. It also doesn't appear 
to happen in Scandinavia (maybe they can be fined for bad spirit?). 

The objective (especially at Newport) is to prevent those ridiculously 
fast pulls that you spend most of your limited playing time retrieving 
from the spectator area, or wasting time by carrying off the injured 
targets.

Most Ultimate players are good natured, and if they do drop the pull without 
penalty (turnover) will walk the disc to where they dropped it (or the endzone 
line) rather than push the advantage they've already gained.

I trust that this will continue. If it doesn't, we'll end up loosing this 
friendly rule option.

Wayne Retter
Fluid Druids
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Subject: Re: Dropped pulls
Author:  j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk (John Domingue) at ~Internet
Date:    26/02/97 15:43


Once, many years ago, we played at an indoor tournament in Wolverhampton 
where dropped pulls were not counted as a turnover. In the first game, the 
Bears (Wacky i believe) pulled to us and Graeme Duckworth (tells you how 
long ago it was) macked (?) the disc so hard it landed three quarters of 
the way up the pitch. Naturally, being a good natured chap, he brought the 
disc back to our own end-zone line.... So I think if you explicity threw 
out the dropped pull rule you'd have more problems not less.

john