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 Posted: Oct 02, 2004 - 10:52 AM
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kwailung wrote: If you're standing in the square with the ball, I think you have to pick it up first -- isn't it compulsory, like having to try and catch a ball that lands on your player?
Well that is my whole question! I thought I heard somewehere that you have the option to try and block first, but could not find it in the rules. (This is the problem of being an "old git" I have played so many editions of BB that sometimes I look for a rule that is from an older rulebook!) 
kwailung wrote: Now, you could always try and blitz from the other side to remove the tackle zone on the ball, couldn't you?
In a perfect world, kwailung, in a perfect world..... but sometimes you only have the one choice.
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Posted: Oct 02, 2004 - 02:13 PM
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Not that the JavaBowl is the end-all/be-all source of answers for rules questions,BUT...last night when I was playing a game, I did a blitz with a treeman..ran to the square with the ball, hoping the ball would squirt out, or at least that I'd be able to make the block first, and he automatically tried (and failed  ) to pick up the ball. This caused a TO and he was unable to throw the block.
Now if the developer of that game put it the accurate ruling for this in his code...then maybe the first action that a player MUST take when entering a square with the ball is to make the PU attempt. (I believe that in LRB 3 all but the Fanatic can try to pick up the ball. In his case it would probably scatter.)
Does that make sense to anyone? Is that the way the "flow" of actions must be done?
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Posted: Oct 02, 2004 - 02:23 PM
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| You must always try to pick up the ball if you enter the square where the ball is. So yeah, if you want to Blitz someone and have to g through the square with the ball, you must try to pick it up, and if you fail it's a TO. |
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 - 07:43 AM
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What Darkson said. It's on p. 9 of LRB 3.0, for anyone who wants to look it up. First sentence under "Picking up the ball":
"If a player moves into a square in which the ball is lying, they must attempt to pick it up, and -- if they wish and are able -- carry on moving." |
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