Talk:Newcomb ball

Bloomington Group
In April 2010, [User:174.20.10.43|174.20.10.43] made a lengthy contribution (below) to the Newcomb ball today section, which I reverted. The contribution needs references before it can be included. It is also too long in the context of the rest of the article. I have copied it here, in case it can be rescued.


 * ''"Bloomington Group, The Backyard Kids, have really expanded the game and has increased its popularity. Played nearly everyday throughout the summer, onlookers pass by and marvel at the greatness that is: newcomb. Official rules for The Backyard Kids consist of one player for a team starting the serve by throwing it over, the ball is then continued to be played back in forth until a miss or it is thrown "out of bounds". On a miss, the player who drops/touches the ball last is out, or if it is untouched, whoever it lands closest to is out. The team that lost the player will start with the next serve to get play resumed. Some general rules while the ball is in play that vary from other forms of the game are: Players are allowed 3 steps at any given time, one backwards "lateral" pass is allowed each time the ball comes into a teams possession, the player who receives the pass is allowed 3 more steps, Balls can hit the net and go over and it is not a foul, players may not "spike" the ball, which is throwing the ball straight down or in a acute angle in relevance to the net, balls must go at the very least a parallel line with the ground, in short: ball must have some sort of arch towards it unless its straight across, can not go down, a team is allowed "spectacular catches" during the match. A spectacular catch must usually have these characteristics: diving/falling down and one handed. There can be many different variations and will be a consensus or the commish will decide upon it. The spectacular catch allows the team that did the catch to bring in the 1st playet who got out earlier. If no one is out the player who catches it gets a round of applause. A general understanding with this rule is the 2nd spectacular catch and any that come after, will be judged on the catch that happened prior to it. Essentially, it must "one-up" the previous spectacular catch or it will not be called. When a team wins they will stick around and play the next team or the same team depending on the number of participants. Ideal teams call for 4-6 people per, but 3 will do if thats all there is. The term used to describe a teams continuous winning performances are called "dynasties" Each time a team beats a team without losing, a game is added into there dynasty, therefore if they win 8 games in a row, they had a dynasty of 8 games. General rule of thumb is that you can not end the night of play if there is a team that is in with in of a record length dynasty. This would require them to have won 4+ games as the record for BYK all time is 9 (there are different dynasty lengths depending on whether it is 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3 and etc.) This league is still going strong to date and is about to make it's one year anniversary in a few months and it will keep going on until the end of time."''


 * Wikipeterproject (talk) 07:56, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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