Re: This came up at Winter League last night...can anyone help

> "Mike Gerics" wrote in message... 
 
> > ---we play on a field that has a round voided area in the center of the
> > field.
> > our opponent took the pull, and it landed in the exact center of the voided
> > out area in the center of the field.
> > we could not determine WHICH spot on the edge of the void to put the disc
> > back into play, because the disc was exactly 10 yards from EACH SPOT on the
> > perimeter of the circular void.
> > 
> > WHERE do we put the disc into play??????

But Mike, I'm confused--Winter doesn't begin for another month.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Koca) wrote in message... 

> Smartalecky answer number 1:
> 
>   Easy question. It did not land in bounds so at the brick mark. 
> Doesn't your league have any UPA observers in it that would know the
> brick rule?


Well played!


> Smartalecky answer number 2:
> 
>   We had a similar predicament in summer pickup once when it was
> really windy. The disc caught a breeze, the disc started floating and
> floating and getting futrther and further away. It ended up on the
> point of the globe antipodal to the exact center of the field! (it
> really was windy). To complicate things further, we were using a
> square field that day. This left 4 "spots" that tied for being
> closest. One person suggested that the closest point would be in the
> exact center of the field since tunneling through the earth's surface
> resulted in the shortest distance possible but he was dismissed as
> being too theoretical and not living in the real world.

Tunneling or not, the same four spots (i.e. the corners) are closest,
no? The center of the field is, instead, the farthest--whether it's as
the crow flies or as the worm burrows.

And now that I think about it, this is as true with a rectangular
field as it is with a square one.