[BD] Rules Queries

[Rich 'Dean' Shelmerdine]

*MY* Interpretation:

1. Who can call a double team? An opponent of mine told me i couldn't call
> it for my teammate, but if a non-marker can call a travel ( i.e. a
> throwing violation), it doesn't seem to make sense to me that a non-thrower
> can't call a marking violation. Does this apply to other marking violations-
> e.g. straddling or vision? Can one call a marker foul for one's teammate-
> say they're a beginner and don't call it if they get taken out mid-stall?
> Evidently, the thrower often has the best vision of a marker foul/violation,
> but it's quite concievable that one could occasionally have better vision
> than the thrower, e.g. of a double team on a thrower looking upfield when
> standing behind them for the dump, as happened to me at MT.


17.3.1.5. "Double Team" - more than one defensive player is within three (3)
meters of the thrower's pivot point when no other offensive player is within
three (3) meters of either defensive player
17.3.2. A marking violation may be contested by the defense, in which case
play stops.

As the rules distinguish between the defence and the marker, I take that to
mean anyone can call double team.
I'm not sure about sideline defenders - perhaps that's what some would
describe as a spirit violation?


2. Slightly more unusual situation, but in the final, i saw a handler
> receive a disc near the edge of the pitch. He caught it easily in-bounds,
> but his momentum carried him such that his pivot foot was on the line. He
> then sent a beautiful huck, and no call was made. Is he obliged to a) bring
> his foot back in bounds, b) re-check the disc in, as if he had left the
> pitch significantly, he would bring his foot back to the line anyway, or c)
> is there no case for a call here? I'm just wondering, as the line is OB, but
> when the disc/player leaves the pitch, play starts with the thrower's pivot
> on the line, right?


12.3.1. If momentum causes a player to touch an out-of-bounds area after
catching the disc in-bounds, the player is considered inbounds. That players
puts the disc into play at the spot on the Field of Play closest to where
they first crossed the Perimeter Line.

Which I understand to be C, though I guess your pivot foot should be the
pitch side of the Perimeter Line...

Dean.