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Originally posted by Mark Padgett on 01-24-2000 07:33 PM
I really don't understand how you can say this. It's not the players fault if the equipment sucks.
The rule book and case book are incredibly specific on not calling this if it wasn't intentional - period.
I base my statement on the case book 10.3.6 Comment:
"Contact which occurs incidentally in playing the game is allowed, but when slapping or striking is intentional
or is so forceful it cannot be ignored, a technical foul must be charged." [Emphasis mine]
The clause I highlighted clearly says that highly forceful contact, without regard to intent, is to be a T. If the contact is such that the board is flopping all around, then it has to be called.
I do agree that the primary purpose of this rule is to address intentional contact but just as the intentional foul rule has an extra clause that allows it to be call in the absence of intent, so does this rule.
[This message has been edited by Camron Rust (edited January 25, 2000).]