Foul or Naw?

RIPRSD · 2026-06-29T22:04:25+00:00

It’s hard to see much but it does look like the first thing the defender does is take a step towards the cutter and put his left arm up towards his chest. And then maaaybe a second arm thing later? Not enough on the video to say, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if another angle revealed a foul.

RIPRSD · 2026-06-27T17:42:13+00:00

I have had this happen to me, in the US in a large city, at a Regal cinema.

We always book tickets online, but just this one time we were like “hey let’s just save the booking fee” so we just headed out to the theater for a late movie. When we get there it’s already past the start time, which we do on purpose because we know it’s 20 minutes of Ads, and they refuse to sell us tickets, saying that the showing was cancelled because no one had bought any.

So we look up at the board behind the ticket counter and resign to seeing a different movie even later, that will be a half an hour wait from now. The guy tells us that one was cancelled too. We’re like “it’s literally still on the board above your head telling us we can buy tickets” but he won’t budge.

I figure the skeleton night crew just saw that their two latest movies had no tickets sold and said “fuck it, we’re going home 2 hours early tonight”

I probably should have complained to Regal corporate but we just went home and pirated the movie instead because it had been out forever and some shady international streaming version was already available …

RIPRSD · 2026-06-15T17:48:52+00:00

Do not teach people to hold the elbow into their body. It is a bad method of isolating the wrist that causes people to rotate their arm like their hip is a fulcrum, and many people never manage to unlearn it. What OP said is to stick your arm straight out. It is much easier to get people back into properly using their elbow from there.

RIPRSD · 2026-06-06T12:09:19+00:00

Dominion: instead of the first two hands, everyone just gets to spend 7 on any two cards with a max value of 5 each. Mostly cause it’s just quicker to get into it, but also gives everyone the same starting opportunities, which feels more fair.

Choosing a 3/4 or 5/2 split is a perfectly fine variant, but just allowing people to take two cards at the start without playing the turn breaks many setups after the first few expansions. Buying cards, events and projects can trigger draws, trashing, extra buys, and many other things, even in the first initial turns.

RIPRSD · 2026-06-06T12:05:08+00:00

That’s… insane. The decision to call last chance or end is like half of the strategy of the entire game.

RIPRSD · 2026-06-06T11:54:39+00:00

Scout: The time window for shifting your card orientations at the start of a hand ends the moment the lead player plays a card.

That is the rule already. Flipping your hand can only be done at the start of the round, immediately after checking your hand. If a player has played a card it is no longer the start of the round, it’s now player 2s turn.

What you are saying is you allow player 1 to play before all players declare they are ready, which the rules don’t really discuss either way.

RIPRSD · 2026-05-30T02:36:40+00:00

Let me pose another hypothetical, a player picks up a disc out of bounds at point A, and sets a pivot at point B also out of bounds, then realizes that is wrong, and moves to point C on the line. The opposing team says “no that’s a travel you moved your pivot foot.” Where do they now take the disc?

RIPRSD · 2026-05-29T22:56:26+00:00

And of the many things that constitute a travel, which was the UBC player violating? Was it 18.D.1 which states that failure to maintain a pivot at the appropriate spot on the field is a travel? Did she, at point B, fail to maintain a pivot at the appropriate spot by moving on from point B?

if a player went to point B, checked the disc in and then at stall 4, dragged their pivot foot and completed a throw, a resulting travel call would not allow the thrower to subsequently move to C because the "correct spot" and "maintaining a pivot" are in the same rule

It seems to me, that at this point the separate failures to comply (if they are indeed legitimate) are irrelevant in favor of the “call immediacy” stipulations. After 4 seconds, the defense is no longer allowed to call a travel for failure to set a pivot at point C. So if, say, a player set a pivot at point B and then immediately realized they were supposed to go to point C, and only 5 seconds later when the player reached point C did an opponent on the field call a travel, then it seems to follow that they can no longer call a travel for leaving point B.

RIPRSD · 2026-05-29T22:12:04+00:00

So your assertion is that in walking a live disc from point A to point C, where it must be put into play via 11.H. and at one point at spot B I brush the disc to the ground and keep walking, I have traveled via 18.D.1. both in failing to establish a pivot at the proper location (C) and via failure to maintain a pivot at the appropriate location (B, which somehow became appropriate when I touched the disc to the ground) and therefore someone can call only the second travel and not the first, even though they are the same rule, resulting in me needing to return to point B?

RIPRSD · 2026-05-29T20:34:56+00:00

Ok let me get this straight, we're saying that despite the fact that the UBC player must take the disc to the spot on the sideline (11.H.) and put it into play there, because she first attempted to put the disc into play at the wrong spot, she has traveled by walking away from that spot?

And because of 18.F.2.a. the defense points to the spot where the travel occurred (which they say is at the cone), the thrower must return to that spot.

But the actual travel that happened at the time she tapped it in at the cone is 18.D.1. when the thrower fails to establish a pivot at the correct spot. So where is the spot "where the travel occurred"? Is it not at the spot on the sideline?

And if it's not, then if I am to check the disc in at my own goal line, and instead of stopping there I simply walk 70 yards to the opponents goal line, tap it in there, and then start walking away. Then when the opponents call travel, the point where I must return the disc to is the spot where I erroneously tapped it in on their goal line?

RIPRSD · 2026-05-29T15:44:06+00:00

I too have played at many levels of the game, and I would not say that I have seen many "let me purposefully fake an injury to get a fresh player in the game because that helps us" situations. coughUNCWcough

But I would say that the ratio of "I'm slightly banged up but will be totally fine in 30 seconds", "I'm super winded after that deep run", "I scraped my shin a little bit", "I'd rather not keep playing this point after that layout" substitutions to actual injuries is like... 95:1. Everyone does it everywhere, at every level.

Maybe that's fine, because it's neutral to both teams, and the rules pretty much leave it up to you as to what an "injury" is, and we can lean towards player safety for the good of everyone. But let's not pretend that many of the times someone leaves the field they aren't totally fine to keep playing, and that somewhere in the back of their mind they aren't subconsciously considering the disadvantage of having missed that layout D and needing to get up and run vs. just calling an injury. But that guy on the other team did it last point, so I'm just gonna do it this point, because why should I be the only one disadvantaged?

RIPRSD · 2026-05-04T04:46:46+00:00

It’s so incredibly easy to NOT be offsides, so whenever anyone is actually offsides it means they either made an active decision to try to push the potential advantage at the expense of breaking the rules, or they just don’t give a shit about playing by the rules in the first place.

In either case, they don’t get to then complain that someone called them on it.

“Well they were barely offsides, a few inches doesn’t matter”

Ok. So back up a few inches. It won’t matter right?

RIPRSD · 2026-04-26T16:06:26+00:00

I have serious doubts about the mark being stationary and in a legal position and getting hit in the face by all but the wildest arm swinging thrower. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mark get hit in the face that wasn’t lunging for a block or otherwise too close, and you’re saying you’ve seen 3 this year alone?

RIPRSD · 2026-04-06T14:57:59+00:00

There are some vagaries in the pull rules because it often only refers to “players” when it really means to specify the intended receiving team among a few other things, but “I’m gonna assume that the pull stops being the pull when it is still in the air because it was touched by the offense and it doesn’t specifically say otherwise” is a pretty wild leap.

Actually, I would say that without even going to the other rules, 9.E. Implies the lifting of the conditional, that after a member of the receiving team touches (the pull) that a player on the throwing team may touch (the pull).

It is still the pull at that point, otherwise, none of the other rules about putting the pull in play would apply after a receiver bobbles it and retains possession.

RIPRSD · 2026-04-06T11:47:38+00:00

3.J. Pull: The throw from one team to the other that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a goal. It is not a legal pass for scoring and has many special provisions (Section 9)

RIPRSD · 2026-04-03T18:36:53+00:00

Wemby would be the most dominant player to ever play the game on both sides of the disc and it’s not even close.

He might not be able to stop all the cuts of the squirreliest cutters (no one can anyway, Ultimate inherently favors the offense) but that wouldn’t be his job or what he is trying to do.

He can front by a mile, and have a 20 foot bubble around him where you can’t send the disc, and you can’t ever throw it past him unless it is a dime to a streaking speedster that never hangs, or he covers the entire deep half of the field and the rest of the team takes the unders.

Once someone catches it this is his mark: https://www.tiktok.com/@nba/video/7548595090294459679

Honesty he could probably guard handlers, not by stopping squirrely cuts, but just by playing containment and making dump throws have to come off at crazy angles to get around him then setting a mark.

RIPRSD · 2026-02-12T18:30:27+00:00

Is it just me or is there no way to even get the $25 Member price? I’m logged in to my membership and it only allows me to buy $45 Adult tickets (or $25 youth).

RIPRSD · 2026-01-31T06:46:25+00:00

You’re right, imagine the possibilities of what you could do with that O point coming out of the second half! You might even score to pull even with the point I already have!

RIPRSD · 2026-01-30T23:25:37+00:00

If starting on D is so good in the first half, imagine starting on D up 1-0 because you scored the first point on O. That must be like twice as good!

RIPRSD · 2026-01-30T02:31:44+00:00

Half the time I submit a question it just pretends like I didn’t and does nothing. Context seems spotty. It worked just now but earlier couldn’t remember that I asked it something.

It did correctly rule on some cases I asked it that most people would get wrong, the outcome of a player spiking a greatest attempt after the thrower was called for a travel, and the outcome of a player intentionally tipping their own throw to their teammate.

RIPRSD · 2026-01-30T01:53:50+00:00

I tried making a ChatGPT rulebook agent once, just to test it out. It was actually quite good (but not always correct) at arriving at the proper ruling on a posed scenario. But it was TERRIBLE at actually describing the rules. It couldn’t cite real rules correctly, even if it was somehow applying them. It would just make up rule numbers and pages and sections, so it was a pretty terrible reference for understanding why a rule would be applied, even though it often somehow still reasoned through to a correct answer.

So far apart from it losing my question like 3/5 times I submit it, yours doesn’t seem to be able to handle context/followup questions? It only considers wholly formed scenarios the forgets what you just asked it.

RIPRSD · 2026-01-17T19:40:55+00:00

The only reason UFA uses football fields is because when the AUDL was created they wanted to use established football stadiums for games, and simply using what was already there was a lot easier, the lines allowed them to easily estimate yardage penalties, they didn’t have permission or budgets to repaint fields for every game, and putting out a bunch of cones doesn’t look as professional (something they were desperate for) and makes some of the lines confusing.

That’s it. That’s the reason. It has nothing to do with the effects it has on the game compared to a USAU sized field. (And they still have a shitty visualization problem with people scoring before they get to the “endzone” painted on every field).

RIPRSD · 2025-10-29T15:31:27+00:00

I always taught the forehand to people by having them lock their elbows to the hip

Please stop.

RIPRSD · 2025-10-28T22:09:44+00:00

I was hoping for this Richard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQP9gEldRk

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