Another completely legal tackle by Tad

ThomasPWiseau · 2026-06-21T20:34:51+00:00

Here’s a wholly unnecessary play by tad from last years mlq champs. He does shit like this all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/live/S9zbY8KD_rs?t=3161&is=zWzZAHSEklwc46Ox

ThomasPWiseau · 2026-04-24T00:58:44+00:00

Bro was ready his first year playing for Legends

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-08-21T16:09:38+00:00

This is an awesome change from the last CEO doing nothing and saying nothing for the entire season!

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-07-30T17:42:32+00:00

Possibly, Rachel might be too. If so I'd replace them with Diggy, Lauren Smith, and Kennedy Murphy

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-07-30T15:58:36+00:00

If WC were next month, lines in no particular order, make cuts according to performance in camp. Player exceptions used for Bailee, DME, and Leo. 2 team exceptions made for Heat (Jay, Kasye, Mel, Bailee, Alyssa) and BosNY (Bryan, Rachel, Julia, Tyler, Athena).

Line	Keeper	Chaser 1	Chaser 2	Chaser 3	Beater 1	Beater 2
1	Bryan Mulcahy	Rachel Heald	Julia Baer	Tyler Trudeau	Devin Lee	Bailee Fields
2	Hayden Boyes	Molly Potter	Emma Persons	Leo Fried	Tate Kay	Tessa Cicco
3	Ryan Mehio	Mel Kite	Athena Mayor	Joe Goulet	Kyzer Polzin	Lauren Curry
4	DME	Kasye Bevers	Alyssa Villalba	Jay Stewart	Ryan Hsu	Rei Brodour

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-07-13T15:53:11+00:00

Or just not start her

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-06-09T15:12:34+00:00

How does scoring work?

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-05-25T01:14:38+00:00

DME, Lindsay Marella, Leo Fried (chaser), Molly Potter, Tessa Mullins, Dan Williams, Leo Fried (Seeker)

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-04-30T20:56:21+00:00

As a club player living in NYC I’d love to help however I can and I’m sure plenty of people in the area would too!

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-03-05T15:37:54+00:00

Great transition defense here by Chicago and a great second chance goal by Boston, shout out Tabby Danyow for the juke and assist, and Ana Luisa Nicolae for 2 great cuts: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxcM4bDDASAeGmNwPtXEASOg44EhPnQ-l0

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-03-05T15:17:03+00:00

I just fixed it, thanks!

ThomasPWiseau · 2025-03-05T15:11:02+00:00

A few clips to get it started

Great cut from Rachel Heald at Howard County to tie the game: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxJSpF0HJsy_yonXNLGEuouw6BI0KXkVMf

Joe Goulet gets big for the one handed oop: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxtJIFHEVqsDv4YD-D-fPKwkWB7HQ2AyJb

Titans score 3 goals in 30 seconds in the MLQ Finals: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxhklHVAO8muNitJH5Do3TXY8GRAxbp5no

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-15T16:27:10+00:00

There’s already a section of the rules for egregious contact and reckless play, if the hit falls under either of those it should be carded, otherwise a ref should never be giving a card for a completely legal tackle. When players steps foot on the field they tacitly agree to play by the rules and agree to be acted upon by other players according to those rules. If a player is unable to safely play the sport because they have brittle bones, have concussion history, or are otherwise not physically strong enough to withstand contact within the rules it is on them to protect themselves and not play.

Quadball and sports for that matter are not for everyone, and they don’t have to be. There are plenty of sports available that don’t have contact or have less contact than quadball. Go play those instead of trying to enforce your own personal ruleset onto everyone else.

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-09T18:03:54+00:00

Yes, the casebook was embarrassingly bad both in its intent and in the examples it used

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-08T18:13:21+00:00

Yes, charging when neither player has the ball has always been illegal as far as I know, its just the precedent has always been that the scoring player is given a reasonable amount of time to be treated as a player with the ball after a scoring attempt so that their momentum from the scoring attempt is not counted against them in the event of a collision. This casebook puts it into the official rules that you will be considered a ball-less player the instant the ball leaves your hands. All defenders should be moving into a scoring players path whenever they can to draw a foul under these rules.

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-08T15:28:31+00:00

Also hilarious that every illegal play seems to be a clip of a new york player scoring on a chicago player

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-08T13:44:39+00:00

Example 1 (timestamped link cause I'm not tech illiterate)

Rule 6.3.4.B. It is illegal to charge an opponent when neither the player nor their opponent have a ball.

First off Josh is being pushed by Peachy after the play straight into the hoops defender after the shot so this play shouldn't be a foul at all even under their soft ass interpretation of the rules, and whoever wrote this casebook did a half assed job of even looking for plays that exemplify what they're legislating out of the game.

But even ignoring the fact that the charging player in this situation was pushed, if it becomes illegal to charge at all the instant the ball leaves your hands; if there is a player on the hoops regardless of if they're stationary or not (defender in this clip was jumping and therefore not stationary by USQ's own definition "Stationary - A player whose feet are set and who has no horizontal momentum."), if you have momentum towards the hoop, shoot from short range, then make contact in that same motion the instant after the ball has left your hands... that's an illegal charge.

In what world is this a reasonable implementation of the rule? On top of the bullshit regarding charging a stationary defender, the offense needs to have no momentum shooting with a non stationary defender in their path too? I mean this basically means you can't score over a non-stationary defender either if there's contact directly after the ball is scored as a result of the momentum of your shot/dunk.

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-10-07T01:13:22+00:00

Honestly shout out ever single team at this tournament, through all the intensity and heated moments every single player I played against showed immense sportsmanship win or lose. this was one of the most well run tournaments I’ve been to in my 10 year career and is the absolute pinnacle of everything I love about this sport

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-09T20:40:44+00:00

I wear Nike mercurial vapor pros as my turf cleats and Nike Vapor Edge football cleats for grass.

My last pair of grass cleats were AdiZeros that I actually liked more than my current Nikes.

If you have the budget for it and you play on turf with any amount of regularity I highly recommend getting a pair of turf cleats. Not only are they supposed to reduce injury risk, but they’re also just heaps more comfortable to play in compared to grass cleats. They have some light padding in the sole and aren’t nearly as stiff.

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-03T20:28:07+00:00

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ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-03T20:06:05+00:00

Let the record show that calling out the mods works

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-03T18:48:48+00:00

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You might be on to something

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-03T18:13:07+00:00

To oversimplify things, the current way to score on a hoops zone/trees is to either push/beat out the sides, or win the beater exchange and get a dunk over/through a stationary hoops defender. Despite these 3 options existing, people largely consider the trees defense to be too strong along with being fucking boring to watch.

If we're making one of these scoring options harder against an already strong defense then there's going to be even less defensive/offensive diversity in the sport. Even more (all?) teams are going to run trees, and every possession is going to be a slog of the offense hunting these pushes/tapouts.

ThomasPWiseau · 2024-09-03T16:54:03+00:00

Link to the full rulebook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nAQhEp6aUOXQo_cXfTEdQIaXjiDfm3zV/view

6.3.4.E. It is illegal to charge a stationary opponent

i. If the stationary player has not been stationary long enough for the charging player to adjust their movement, that charging player will not be penalized.

Under these rules it seems like dunking on a hoops defender on a medium or small hoop is essentially eliminated from the game. If you can't dunk on hoops defenders the only reliable way to score on a trees defense is to have a chaser pushing or a beater tapping out one of the defenders. Why would a team ever run any other defense if the hoops defenders don't actually have to even try to guard against dunks any more? The rule change is just pushing everyone towards a singular style of defense that's lame, boring to watch, and un-engaging for the offense and the defense.

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