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Re: pic: Blue or red?
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Originally Posted by boiler View Post
This is exactly why, when we had our minitournament, the rules were changed to state the Atlas Ball must be ENTIRELY within one side of the field or the other to count - if any part of it crossed midfield, its scoring was ignored.
To be honest, I'm surprised the VEX GDC didn't make a similar distinction.
As a GDC, this was discussed/tested at length. If you need it entirely on one side you take away a huge part of the field where the Atlas Ball wouldn't count at all which isn't nearly as exciting.
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