What’s the difference between a check, a self-check and a “ground touch”? And when are each of these required?
Where do players reposition after a call?
When a foul or violation is called but a subsequent pass is completed, how do you decide whether the disc goes back to the thrower? Does it depend on whether the call was before or after the throw, or whether the infraction affected the play?
If I’m on defense and get picked, and my player catches the disc, does it always go back to the thrower?
I was playing defense when a huck went up to the receiver I was guarding. We chased it down, and both went up for it. I got to the disc first, and hit it OB, but then my hand came down on my receiver’s arms, and he called ‘foul!’ While it’s true that my arms hit his arms, the contact occurred after I had hit the disc away, so I wasn’t sure whether to contest the foul call or not… is contact always considered a foul?
I was going up for a disc when my defender plowed into me. I called 'foul', but my defender said he was going for the disc so it was 'incidental contact'. What's the right outcome in that situation?
A “hospital pass” went up, a group of players gathered under the hanging disc, and several players went up for the disc at once. One player called “foul.” The defense contested because it was a hospital pass, so therefore the contact was incidental. What’s the correct call here?
What does "affected the play" mean anyway?
If a defender is purposefully getting in the way of a cut or a cutter’s path to the disc, is this a blocking foul?
When is thrower/marker contact a foul on the marker, and when is it a foul on the thrower?
What happens when a thrower calls a marking violation, like “fast count”, “double team”, or “disc space”, more than once in the same stall count?
What’s this “new pick rule” I keep hearing about?
When someone catches the disc and there's a question as to whether they’re in or out, I often hear people yelling, “check feet!” and then other people telling the receiver “it's your call!” In the rules, I can't find anything about a “check feet” call, or about it being the receiver's decision about whether they’re in or out. Where is that?
If the marker calls a travel but the disc is caught, and the new thrower (who didn’t hear the call) then throws the disc away, is this a turnover?
Is an uncontested foul in the end zone by a defensive player a score, or does the disc come out to the goal line?
I thought that when a marking violation is called, you’re supposed to drop your count by 2, but a lot of people seem to only drop it by 1… what’s the right way?
The marker says “nine…ten…stall!!” and takes off down field. Is that allowed?
Where does the stall count come in after a contested stall?
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Q: What’s the difference between a check, a self-check and a “ground touch”? And when are each of these required?
A: A “check” is what’s used to restart play whenever play has stopped (i.e., after a call; II.R.3), and both offense and defense must acknowledge readiness. Usually, the thrower presents the disc to the marker to “tap it in”, but in some situations, when there is no offensive player in possession of the disc or no marker close enough to the thrower after a stoppage of play, an offensive or defensive "self-check" is used instead (VIII.D.4 and 5).
This form of check still requires acknowledgment by both teams before the disc can be put into play. Although an offensive self-check is physically carried out by touching the disc to the ground, it is NOT the same as a “ground touch”.
A “ground touch” is used by a thrower to put the disc in play when the disc is “live” (II.R.2). This basically means that whenever the thrower is walking the disc to the spot where he or she is going to put the disc into play (for example, walking an OB disc back to the sideline, walking a disc to the front endzone line, or walking a pull to the brick mark), he or she must touch the disc to the ground before making a throw (XIII.B, IX.H, and VIII.B.10). (The reason for this is in order to signify the pivot spot to the marker so
that the marker knows where to set their mark- this is especially helpful to the marker on an unlined field!) If the thrower fails to touch the disc to the ground before the throw, it is a travel. A “ground touch” is not a check though, and the thrower does not need to wait for defensive acknowledgment before throwing the disc (although it seems to be common practice for the thrower to offer the disc to the marker for a “check” in many live disc
situations, such as when putting a pull into play at the brick mark, even though this is not actually required).
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A: Where players reposition after a call depends on where the disc goes after the call has been resolved (XVI.C.4), but the underlying rationale is to try to put players in the position they would have been if the infraction hadn’t occurred. There are 3 possible scenarios: a) the disc was never thrown, b) the disc was thrown and stays where it is, or c) the disc was thrown but now goes back to the thrower.
a) If the disc was never thrown, then the players simply go back to where they were when the call was made.
b) If the disc was thrown after the call, but it’s determined that the disc stays where it is (whether it’s caught or turned over), then players should go to where they were when that pass was completed (or turned over).
c) If the disc was thrown, but it’s determined that the disc goes back to the thrower, then the players go back to where they were either when the call was made, or when the disc was thrown, whichever was earlier.
This last one is the situation that usually requires the most readjustment, and is the one that many people tend to get wrong. For example, if a long huck goes up to a receiver and a defender sprinting down the field, they both go up for the disc, the receiver calls a foul and the defender contests, the disc is sent back to the thrower. Now the receiver and defender (and maybe a few other players) are standing all the way downfield, but the disc has gone back to the thrower. In this situation, everyone should go back to where they
were when the throw went up, since this was earlier than the time of the call. This usually means that the receiver and defender go back to somewhere much closer to where the receiver first initiated his or her cut.
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A: For the situation where a call is made but the thrower doesn’t hear it and throws a completed pass, the first question to ask is whether the call was made by the offense or the defense.
If the call was made by the defense – for example a pick, or a foul where the offense pushed off when initiating their cut – then the next question to ask is whether the violation affected the play (XVI.C.3). If it did, then the throw goes back to the thrower (unless it’s an uncontested offensive receiving foul, i.e. the offensive receiver fouls their defender while the disc is in the air, in which case it’s a turnover!). If it didn’t (say the pick or foul was away from the play), then the disc stays with the receiver (XVI.C.2.b).
If the call was made by the offense – for example a receiver is fouled while they’re trying to initiate their cut – then the next question is whether the call was made before or after the throwing motion began. If the call was made while the thrower was in the act of throwing or while the disc was in the air, the disc stays. If the call was before the start of the throwing motion, the disc goes back. The reason for this rule is so that the offense doesn’t get a “free throw”- that is, a situation where they would get to keep the disc if the
pass is completed, but get to send it back if the pass was not completed. This rule applies whether the receiver who called the foul catches the disc, or whether the call is made by another offensive player who’s not involved in the play.
So to summarize: If a call is made and the thrower throws a completion, if the defense made the call, the disc goes back if the infraction (foul or violation) affected the play (or is a turnover in the case of an uncontested offensive receiving foul), and if the offense made the call, the disc goes back if the call was before the throwing motion began. Otherwise the completion stands.
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A: The fact that you got picked and your player caught the disc does not mean that the disc automatically goes back to the thrower (this is a common misconception). The disc should only go back to the thrower if you believe that the pick affected the play (XVI.C.3), that is, if you believe the pick affected your ability to prevent your opponent from catching the disc. In most situations, a picked defender has a pretty good argument that without the pick, he would have been able to contest the pass, so the disc should go
back. However, if you as a defender are trailing your opponent by a fair amount (say, 2.9 meters) because you’ve been poaching off of them, or because you are much slower than them, and you know that with or without the pick you wouldn’t have been able to change the outcome of the pass, then the disc should stay with the receiver. It is still perfectly legitimate to call the pick (as long as you were within 3 meters of your opponent when you got picked), because your ability to catch up to them and set up a mark were affected, but the disc should only go back to the thrower if you believe that the pick actually affected your ability to prevent your opponent from catching the disc.
So to summarize, you should always ask yourself the question: Did the person you are covering get open because of the pick, or was he or she already open before the pick occurred? If it’s the latter, then the disc does not go back to the thrower.
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Q: I was playing defense when a huck went up to the receiver I was guarding. We chased it down, and both went up for it. I got to the disc first, and hit it OB, but then my hand came down on my receiver’s arms, and he called ‘foul!’ While it’s true that my arms hit his arms, the contact occurred after I had hit the disc away, so I wasn’t sure whether to contest the foul call or not… is contact always considered a foul?
A: In order to understand what the proper outcome of this situation should be, several different issues must be examined. There are two common misconceptions: one is that all contact is a foul, and the other is that all uncontested fouls should result in the team that called the foul retaining possession of the disc. Neither of these are in fact the case! There are two sections of the rules that are relevant in this situation: the definition of a
foul, and the continuation rule, which governs where the disc should go after a call. Note that the definition of a foul doesn’t say anything about who gets the disc after a foul occurs! So let’s look at each of these in turn. (The following assumes that the play was not a “dangerous play”- which we’ll deal with at the end.)
When is contact a foul? A foul is defined as any contact that affects continued play (you get to this definition if you combine II.E and II.H, which defines “incidental contact”). What is “continued play”? Continued play is simply the ability of the contacted player to continue playing the game- for example, cutting or clearing if they’re on offense, playing defense or getting the mark on in they’re on defense, etc. So if I’m on offense, and I step on my defender’s foot before I start my cut, such that my defender cannot continue to play defense on me, that’s a foul. Or if my defender tripped me while I was clearing out of the lane, and I was no longer able to clear out rapidly, that too is a foul. Now, in both of these situations, everyone knows intuitively that just because a foul occurred it doesn’t mean that possession should switch over to the fouled player.
So when does the foul affect who gets possession of the disc? Let’s limit our discussion to fouls called by the offense. In order for the fouled player’s team to obtain or retain possession of the disc, the foul has to have “affected the play”. Although this sounds similar, this phrase has a very different meaning than the phrase “affected continued play” which is used to determine whether something is a foul in the first place. Whether an infraction (such as a foul) affected the play determines what happens to the disc, per the continuation rule (XVI.C.2.b). So what does affected the play mean? “Affected the play” means that the outcome of the specific play (that is, which team has the disc when play stops) may have been meaningfully different absent the infraction (XVI.C.3). For example, if a receiver is fouled and thereby prevented from getting open for a pass, the play was affected; however, if the receiver would not have received a pass even without
the foul, the play was not affected. Note also that receiving fouls carry an extra provision that not only does the infracted team retain possession, but the infracted player him or herself (i.e. the receiver) gets to keep the disc (assuming the foul is uncontested; XVI.H.3.b.2).
So this finally brings us back to the question posed above. There are two sub-questions that we must answer: Was the contact a foul? And if so, did the foul affect the play? Since the contact occurred after the defender hit the disc OB, the outcome of the specific play was probably not affected by the contact (whether or not the defender had hit the receiver’s arms, the receiver probably wouldn’t have been able to catch the disc inbounds after the defender had hit it OB). In some situations, a receiver may feel that even though the defender hit the disc first, subsequent contact affected the receiver’s ability to make a second play on a disc. In this case, the contact can be considered to have affected the play (since the play is now considered to include the second attempt at the disc). Whether the contact affected the play is determined solely by the contacted player. So in the situation
described above, where no second attempt was possible, the contact did not affect the play, and therefore the receiver’s team should not retain possession of the disc.
Ok, so the receiver shouldn’t gain possession of the disc, but was the contact still a foul? Well, that depends on whether the contact affected continued play. In some situations, even if the contact didn’t affect the play, it may have affected continued play, or the ability of the contacted player to continue playing. For example, if the contact caused the receiver to fall down, and then the defender-turned-offensive player took off downfield and the receiver-turned-defensive player couldn’t get up in time to chase after him on
defense, the contact affected continued play, and the former receiver could call a foul to stop play and make their opponent come back. In the case described above, the contact seems to have been limited to the receiver’s arms, and therefore is unlikely to have affected that player’s ability to continue playing, and therefore the contact was probably not a foul.
Finally, a word on dangerous plays: if a player shows reckless disregard for the safety of others, or makes a dangerous play (XVI.H.4) and thereby causes significant impact with another player, the dangerous play is considered to have affected the play if the receiver would have had a play on the disc if the dangerous play had not occurred. For example, if a catchable disc is deflected away by a defender who then dangerously crashes into the
receiver, the receiver gets the disc even though the defender deflected the disc before the contact occurred.
So, bottom line: unless it’s a dangerous play, contact is only a foul if it affects continued play, and furthermore, the disc should only go to the fouled player’s team if the foul affected the specific play.
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Q: I was going up for a disc when my defender plowed into me. I called 'foul', but my defender said he was going for the disc so it was 'incidental contact'. What's the right outcome in that situation?
A: "Incidental contact" does not mean "accidental contact," it means contact that does not affect continued play (II.H). It is assumed that any contact between players is accidental and a result of the defender going for the disc. Just because someone is going for the disc doesn’t mean that in the process they did not contact you, affecting your ability to continue play.
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Return to top A: Understanding this phrase is important for correct application of the continuation rule. Here's the part of the continuation rule that's relevant: XVI.C. Continuation rule A few things to note about this rule: To explain this a bit more clearly, let's illustrate this with some examples. We'll start with an easy one: A receiver starts his cut but is fouled by his defender. The thrower either doesn't realize there has been a foul and throws the disc anyway, or has already thrown the disc. The receiver feels that he would have had a play on the disc if he hadn't been fouled. Therefore he determines that the infraction affected the play, and the disc returns to the thrower.... unless the specific rule says otherwise, which in this case it Ok, now let's say that the same receiver was fouled, but this time the thrower, seeing that that receiver was not open (but not realizing that a foul had been called), decides to throw to a different receiver, perhaps the dump. The dump can't get open, and the thrower ends up throwing the disc right to the dump's defender. In this case, there's a reasonable argument to be made that if the first receiver hadn't been fouled, he may have been a At this point you may be thinking, well, every time there's a defensive foul before an incomplete throw, the offense can claim that the foul affected the play, and the disc will go back to the thrower. And in fact, this is mostly true. (Note that the 10th edition did not clearly address what should happen when there's a defensive violation preceding an incomplete throw, and therefore a special clarification was given at club and college nationals for the past several years, in which it was decided that this scenario would be played such that the disc would always go back to the thrower.) However, the 11th edition is a bit more nuanced in that it allows for the infracted player to determine that the infraction didn't affect the play, if that is the case. For example, imagine our same receiver being fouled, but now let's say that receiver is on the other side of the field from the thrower, perhaps out of range for that thrower's throws. Meanwhile, the thrower sees another receiver open up the line for an easy pass, and throws it to that open receiver, but the throw gets picked up by the wind and goes out of bounds. In this case, the fouled receiver recognizes that the fact that he was fouled had no impact on the fact that the disc was turned over, and determines that the infraction did One last comment on this: The phrase "affected the play," which refers to a specific play in the context of an infraction and the continuation rule (as described above), should not be confused with the phrase "affect continued play," which is part of the definition of incidental contact, and therefore of fouls (which are addressed elsewhere on this page). Return to top A: There are two types of blocking fouls (XVI.H.C.3.1&2), contact resulting from: a) solely “playing the player”, or b) positioning oneself in an unavoidable position. The former type refers to the fact that, when the disc is in the air, non-incidental contact resulting from solely play your opponent, instead of also playing the disc, is illegal. For example, when the disc is in the air, contact resulting from face-guarding the receiver and trying to get in their way based solely on their trajectory is a blocking foul. However, if a The second type of blocking foul refers to contact resulting from taking up a position that is unavoidable by your opponent, when time, distance and line of sight are considered. “Unavoidable” means that your opponent can’t stop themselves from running into you; for example, jumping in the way of someone who is running full speed, or standing in the way of someone who is running forward while looking behind them for the disc. However, this does not mean that, as a defender, you cannot try to anticipate where the cutter wants to go, and get there first, forcing the cutter to have to slow down or stop to avoid you. (Just because someone has started to run along a particular unoccupied trajectory does not give them the right to that entire trajectory!) As long the cutter can avoid running into you, it is perfectly legal to get in their way and try to make them take a different route. Return to top A: First of all, contact between a thrower and a marker who is illegally positioned (for example, a marker who is not giving the thrower disc space) is generally a foul on the marker (XVI.H.3.a.3). This supercedes anything written below, which only applies to legally positioned markers. When the marker is set up in a legal marking position, contact between a thrower and a marker is treated differently depending on whether the contact is with the marker’s extended arms and legs (meaning, outstretched arms or raised legs), or with the rest of the marker’s body (or planted legs). Let’s look at each of these cases individually. When a thrower comes in contact with the marker’s extended arms or legs, it is considered a foul on the marker unless the marker’s extended arms or legs were completely stationary (something that occurs only very rarely; XVI.H.3.a.2). When a thrower comes in contact with the marker’s body (excluding extended arms and legs), the relevant issue is who initiated the contact, and the foul is on the person that initiated the contact (XVI.H.3.a.4). This rule clarifies that it is an offensive foul for the thrower to try to “draw the foul” by plowing into the marker’s body. If both players are vying for the same spot simultaneously, though, it’s considered a foul on the marker (XVI.H.3.a.3). Return to top Q: What happens when a thrower calls a marking violation, like “fast count”, “double team”, or “disc space”, more than once in the same stall count? A: Every time a marking violation, such as the ones mentioned, occurs and is called by the thrower, the marker must do two things- correct the marking violation before resuming the stall count, and drop the count by one (XIV.B.7). For example, if the marker said “four” and the thrower said “disc space”, the marker must first correct the illegal marking position, and having done that can resume the stall count with “three”. If the marker does not correct the marking violation, repeats the same violation or engages Return to top A: The “new pick rule” is actually a change to the continuation rule, but it often comes up when a pick is called. Let’s take a common situation as an example: a downfield defender calls a pick, but the thrower doesn’t hear the call and subsequently throws the disc to the dump. According to the 10th edition, the disc would go back to the thrower because the call was made before the throw (although even under the 10th edition, play continued Note that stopping because you hear a call doesn’t count as that call having Return to top A: The reason you can’t find the “check feet” call in the rules is because… it’s not there! Although “check feet” is often heard on the Ultimate field, it should be considered merely as a suggestion, and does not stop play. A disagreement on the field about whether the receiver was in or out of bounds does stop play (according to XIX.D), however in order for there to be a disagreement, there need to be conflicting calls of “in” and “out” made by players on the field. Since “check feet” isn’t a call (in fact it’s not even a statement of opinion!), it should never affect ongoing play. In/out (of bounds, or of the endzone), as well as up/down calls should be made by the player with “best perspective.” Best perspective is defined as: “The most complete view available by a player that includes the relative positions of the disc, ground, players, and line markers involved in a play. On an unlined field, this may require sighting from one field marker to another.” So in reality, the player with best perspective is sometimes neither the receiver nor the defender, but perhaps another player more removed from the play that can see all the cones. Also note that “player” is defined as “Any of the up to fourteen persons participating in the game at any one time,” which means that it’s definitely not the call of people on the sideline. It is often unclear who actually had best perspective. If two players who both claim to have best perspective disagree over what the outcome of the play should be, this situation should be treated like any other contested situation, with the disc going back to the thrower and the count resuming at the Return to top A: No, the disc should go back to the thrower. By the continuation rule, play stopped when the offensive receiver caught the disc because the team committing the infraction retained possession of the disc (XVI.C.2.b.1). Once play stops, the disc is dead and therefore no longer subject to a turnover (II.R.3). The disc was subject to a turnover on that first pass, but not on the subsequent pass. Return to top A: Basically, it depends on what kind of foul it is, that is, whether the foul occurred before or after the receiver got control of the disc. If the defender fouls the receiver while the disc is in the air (or before possession is gained), thereby preventing the receiver from being able to catch the disc, this is considered a "receiving foul" (XVI.H.3.b), and if it's uncontested, the receiver gets the disc at the spot of the infraction (XVI.H.3.b.2; which in this case, is in the endzone). However, it is not a goal: the defender checks the disc into play right there in the middle of the endzone (X.C), at which point the disc is now "live" (II.R.2), all players are free to move about, and the receiver has to walk the disc out to the goal line, touch it to the ground (XIII.B), and play the disc from there (X.B). If, on the other hand, the defender fouls the receiver after the receiver had already gained possession of the disc, thereby causing the receiver to lose possession of the disc, this is considered a "general" foul, and XI.A.2 applies. In this case, the result is that a goal is awarded. Note also that a "strip" (XVI.H.3.d) is considered a general foul, and therefore an uncontested strip in the endzone is also a goal. Return to top A: It’s true that after a marking violation (e.g. “fast count”, “double team”, “disc space”) is called, the marker is supposed to drop their count by 2 seconds. But what this means in practice, is that the next number the marker should say should be 2 less than the number they were going to say. So if the marker has already said “5”, the next number they should say is “4” instead of “6”. Return to top A: No, play stops as soon as a stall is called, and can only be restarted with a check (XIV.A.3). This is true regardless of whether the stalled thrower is still holding the disc in his hands or if he has thrown the disc (whether complete or incomplete; XIV.A.3.b), and regardless of whether the thrower contests the stall. So, after calling the stall, the marker should have waited to determine whether the thrower- now “the defense”- was ready before either taking the disc and having the former thrower check it in, or placing it on the ground and tapping it in. Another similar situation that is often played incorrectly is when a thrower calls a timeout when his team has none left. This is another case in which play stops and can only be restarted again with a check (VI.B.6). In general, an easy rule of thumb to use is that whenever there is a turnover due to something other than simply an incomplete pass, play stops and must be restarted with a check. Return to top The stall count after a contested stall should come in at “stalling 8” (note that this is different from the previous edition of the rules). The reason for the change is that previously, there was a requirement for people to give a 1 second pause between the word “stalling” and the first number of their stall count, every time they re-initiated a count. Under this old rule, if it were applied correctly, a thrower would have 2 seconds to throw the disc after a contested stall (“stalling…9…10”). In the 11th edition, there is no longer a requirement to pause after the word “stalling”, so another second had to be re-introduced after a contested stall in order to preserve the 2 seconds the thrower is supposed to get
Q: A “hospital pass” went up, a group of players gathered under the hanging disc, and several players went up for the disc at once. One player called “foul.” The defense contested because it was a hospital pass, so therefore the contact was incidental. What’s the correct call here?
A: The quality of the throw has no bearing on whether a foul can or can’t be called. The only thing that matters is whether contact that affected the receiver’s ability to catch the disc was initiated by a member of the opposing team (XVI.H.3.b.1 and II.E.). If a defender initiates contact with the receiver, thereby affecting the receiver’s ability to catch the disc, it’s a foul, no matter how bad the throw. However, in order to call a foul in this situation, the receiver must be able to attribute the contact to a member of the
opposing team (since it’s only a foul if it was initiated by a member of the opposing team, and an infraction may only be called by a player on the infracted team who recognizes that it has occurred; XVI.A). If the player calling the foul doesn’t know whether the contact was initiated by a member of their own team, or the opposite team, they cannot call the foul.
Q: What does "affected the play" mean anyway?
3. An infraction affected the play if an infracted player determines that the outcome of the specific play (from the time of the infraction until play stops) may have been meaningfully different absent the infraction. (For example, if a receiver is fouled and thereby prevented from getting open for a pass, the play was affected; however, if the receiver would not have received a pass even without the foul, the play was not affected.)
-if the team that committed the infraction gains or retains possession (e.g.- a defensive infraction followed by a turnover, or an offensive infraction followed by a completed pass), it doesn't matter whether the infraction occurred before or after the throw.
-the infracted player gets to determine whether the infraction affected the play.
-the specific play is described as beginning at the time of the infraction and ending when play stops, and is not limited to a particular pass or event.
does (according to XVI.H.3.b.2 Receiving Fouls, if the foul is uncontested the disc goes to the receiver at the spot of the infraction; if contested, it goes back to the thrower).
better option for the thrower, and the pass may have been completed to him. Therefore, the fouled receiver may still determine that the foul affected the play, and the disc will return to the thrower.
not affect the play, and the turnover stands.
Q: If a defender is purposefully getting in the way of a cut or a cutter’s path to the disc, is this a blocking foul?
defender is playing the disc (e.g. looking at and reacting to the trajectory of the disc in order to make the catch/D), they are allowed to move into unoccupied space for the purpose of preventing their opponent from taking that space (ie- “boxing out”), since they are not solely playing their opponent.
Q: When is thrower/marker contact a foul on the marker, and when is it a foul on the thrower?
in a different marking violation, the thrower may continue to call the name of the specific marking violation, and each time, the marker must respond in the way just explained. However, once a thrower has called one marking violation in a given stall count, if the marker continues to be in violation of any marking rules (XIV.B.1-5), the thrower can stop play by calling “violation” (XIV.B.8). This not only stops play, but the stall goes
back to zero (unless the violation is contested). This rule (new to the 11th edition) allows greater flexibility to the thrower, who can choose whether to stop play by calling “violation” or merely to stop/reduce the stall count by calling the name of the specific violation.
Q: What’s this “new pick rule” I keep hearing about?
until the thrower acknowledge a call and the defense had incentive to continue to play to try to get a D). However, in the 11th edition, the timing of the call is no longer relevantthe only thing that matters is whether the infraction (in this case the pick) affected the play. So in this example, since the pick that occurred downfield didn’t affect the dump defender’s play on the disc, the disc stays with the dump. While this might seem a bit odd
at first, imagine another situation in which a defender far away from the play gets picked, while a second later the thrower (not hearing the call) throws a big huck for a score. In this case it seems unfair that this score should be overturned because of an unrelated pick that happened far away, just because it happened a moment before the throw. In the 11th edition, the score would stand since the pick didn’t affect the play.
“affected the play” (XVI.C.3 and XVI.K), so don’t stop playing defense until you see the thrower acknowledge the call! The thrower is required to stop play as soon as he or she hears the call- to not do so is a violation of rule XIX.F. However, if the thrower doesn’t hear the call and throws a pass (as in our example above), play stops only when the outcome of that pass (and that pass only) is determined (unless it’s a turnover, in which case play continues).
Q: When someone catches the disc and there's a question as to whether they’re in or out, I often hear people yelling, “check feet!” and then other people telling the receiver “it's your call!” In the rules, I can't find anything about a “check feet” call, or about it being the receiver's decision about whether they’re in or out. Where is that?
count reached plus one, or 6 if over 5.
Q: If the marker calls a travel but the disc is caught, and the new thrower (who didn’t hear the call) then throws the disc away, is this a turnover?
Q: Is an uncontested foul in the end zone by a defensive player a score, or does the disc come out to the goal line?
Q: I thought that when a marking violation is called, you’re supposed to drop your count by 2, but a lot of people seem to only drop it by 1… what’s the right way?
Q: The marker says “nine…ten…stall!!” and takes off down field. Is that allowed?
Q: Where does the stall count come in after a contested stall?
(“stalling8…9…10”).
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