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Re: Team Update 1-17-2014
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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
I've always been under the assumption that deflecting passes (driving into ball and knocking it once) was legal. Am I the only one that views this is a rule confirmation and not a change? 
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I view it the same way. Assists are worth a lot of points (1 or 2 high goal scores each), they shouldn't be as simple to get as roll the ball to my partner. If you put the ball on the ground you are taking a risk that you will have to spend a significant amount of time in chasing it down again, and the point values are in line with that risk.
That is where the real advantage of catching mechanisms comes in to play, not in getting catch points but in accomplishing assists under defense. You will have to avoid inadvertent catching of an opponents ball, but that is no different than making sure you don't accidentally pick up an opponents game piece in any other game. I will admit my team does not have much to lose from this update, we were always intending on designing our catching mechanism to collapse so that we will have a clear shot at the high goal.
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