Tourney: Greif Masters 2010 - 1st Bikepolo Tournament Karlsruhe 05-07.02.2010

Had quite a lengthy chat with Hannes about rules, and I think it's worth highlighting the things that we are not used to here in London.

They have adopted some from the last Euros, some from Paris BFF, some are new to Karlsruhe.

Ball Joint and Lobs:
It is legal to lob the ball (’throw’ the ball with the mallet) and/or to travel with the ball using the ‘ball joint’ cupping style of carrying the ball but you cannot score with either method. If ball is cupped up to goals, it has to be passed once before scoring.
This also includes carrying the ball on the mallet egg & spoon style.

After a goal is scored/resetting the game:
After a goal is scored, the scoring team must return to their own half and cannot come back across center court until the ball or any player of the conceding team has come past center court. The conceding team takes possession of the ball. No conceding player with or without the ball can then pass half court until at least two players of the scoring team have returned to their own half, one of these players can be a ‘goalie’ who was already in the goal area. A player is not required to tap out for a foot-down after a goal has been scored but must return to his own half.
No returning to the D, just your half of the court, read it carefully.

‘Like’ contact that is allowed:
Non-aggressive body to body, mallet to mallet, and bike to bike. Apart from the fouls listed above. Players are allowed to tap goal keeper’s mallet.
You can hassle the goal keeper.

The ref can call double tapouts and sin-bin players, even for the rest of the game!

Penalties can be:

• First accidentally foul = tap out
  
• Second accidentally foul or first purposely foul = double tap out
  
• Second double tap out = Time penalty
  
• Be removed from the game for a set time (Time penalties: 8 min game = 30 second penalty, 15 min = 45 sec, over 20 min = 1 min) or even permanently.
  And this one is new:
  
  

After any kind of foul (except a foot-down), the fouled team gets possession of the ball.