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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I think this was to make the rules simpler; I guarantee you that the rulebook would be 10 pages longer and matches would be that harder to judge if the rules weren't there.
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I'll guarantee you that the rulebook would be about 10
lines longer and matches would be harder to ref. And yes, I'm from the "Bumpers? What are those?" era, when everyone knew the rules...
...except for some of the refs, but that's another whole discussion. (And the specific incident(s) I'm thinking of were when the bumpers were optional.)
The ten lines would be:
The pinning rule, added to the contact rule.
No high-speed, long-distance ramming, added to the contact rule.
Entanglement already has its rule, as does intentional damage/disable/tipping.
The harder to ref part comes from enforcing said pinning rule and more importantly, the definition of high-speed long-distance ramming.
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