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Re: Defense in Ultimate Ascent

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Originally Posted by Hobo View Post
FCS blocking will become extraordinarily tricky. At Chesapeake, our alliance employed a net capable of blocking 329's shots, but a tenacious counter-defense actually pushed our blocker into the protected feeder; we received a technical for that, and that cost us the first final.
From there, I think our blocker was just too scared of the same thing happening that they weren't willing to get close enough to block.

If a blocker can be implicated in a technical for being close enough to push into the feeder zone, what kind of blocker can pull off successful FCS defense?
Did you ask the ref about whether or not rule 18-1 applied?
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