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Originally Posted by brennonbrimhall
However, for the sake of discussion, I'm interested in the reverse of the other side of the coin. The rules this year are defined such that the definition of possession is the same for both alliances with both balls, irrespective of who 'owns' the ball.
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What the manual says about possession is not how referees call possession. The manual is not the source of referee judgement. This was admitted by a member of the GDC at the CMP driver's meeting.
Regardless of what the rules say, offensive possession is totally different from defensive possession. These kinds of contradictions really bug me.
1114's coach asked if offensive possession was judged differently from defensive possession. The response was yes, it is judged differently. At this point, a few other people asked where this was written, and the answer was "it's not written, it's up to the individual referees, but don't worry we've gone over it with them, and it'll be consistent", but they didn't spell out what was considered offensive or defensive possession because they didn't want to give people something to argue about with refs.