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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
What's interesting is that the old definition and the new definition are both on the official Q&A in two different threads making finding the new updated rules harder to find.
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The orginal rules for handling the goals outside of the end game were hard to interpret, so they made rule revisions including a definition of "possession" and put them out in revision 2 of the game manual--and splashed the new "possession" definition across all of the the Q&A threads so that everyone would be sure to know the manual was revised.
That revision 2 definition of "possession" is the definition in the official forum post you linked--what you call the old definition--and is still the definition in the manual--so it is not old, in that sense.
The "new definition" or the "pull test" evolved only in the game definitions thread in response to teams' questions on the "possession" definition. The pull test is the only easily understood or practical version of the possession definition given to date, but it
is different than what many teams will think from reading the possession definition alone.