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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Common sense.
The rulesmakers have to give something half-way definitive to allow us to make a judgment. Making us try to guess whether a jumper's toe went more than half-way over a division line or not doesn't really make much sense from either the rulesmakers or rules callers side imo. We have enough to do out there without having to make stoopid decisions like that.
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As you can see from what I wrote in one of my prior posts, I happen to agree with that reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
By 6-3-1 it appears that each jumper would be entitled to half of the division line, but that is a difficult way to make judgments.
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
And from a rules standpoint:
1) Rule 1-3-2 says that the division line divides the court into two equal parts.
2) Rule 6-3-1 says that the jumpers have to stay in their half of the circle(iow in their equal part).
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1. Absolutely true, but those equal parts do not equate to half of the length of the court as each side would be one inch short.
2. The problem is that their equal part of the circle on each side of the division line does not equate to half of the circle as the rule stipulates.