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Originally posted by assignmentmaker
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
3) Team A is last to touch ball before it gains backcourt status;
4) Team A is first to touch ball after it gains backcourt status.
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At the instant A3 catches it, the ball has front court status; then, simultaneously in a rules sense, it attains backcourt status.
I am not suggesting that we ought call this backcourt, only that either in 9-9, or elsewhere, in a more general sense if in fact the principle holds, a protocol for treating this kind of simultaneous event should be expressed.
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I understand your point and have thought about it myself, but here's why it's still NOT a violation, even according to the criteria I listed above.
It's only a violation if A3 is the first to touch the ball
after it gains backcourt status. By your own description, A3 touches the ball at the exact moment that it gains backcourt status. Therefore, A3 did not touch it
before it had backcourt status. "At the same time" is not equivalent to "before".