midwest VII rules:

• DonŐt be a dick.
• Be safe
  
  • Helmets are required
  • Freewheel bicycles must have a brake
  • Handle bars and mallet ends must be plugged
  • Acceptable contact is bike to bike, mallet to mallet and body to body
• Gameplay
  • 3 Players on a team
  • To start, all players must be stationary behind the goal
  • 3, 2, 1, polo !
  • Lefties must joust with the mallet on their right hand side (to avoid collisions)
  • After a goal, the Returning team must wait for the Scoring team to go back to their half of the court
  • Scoring team must stay in their half until play resumes
  • Play resumes when Returning team crosses half court with bike or ball. Shots count as resuming play
  • Time outs are available for injuries
  • Play will stop if the ball is lodged in a bike. The ball will be returned to approximately where it became lodged in the bike
  • During regular play, time outs are available for mechanical problems only after a goal is scored
  • For semi finals and finals time outs are available for mechanical problems at all times
  • Goal judges/referees will be instructed to decide what is a penalty, and what is an appropriate timeout
• Tap Outs required when:
  • A player touches any horizontal surface with their foot (i.e. the ground, a mallet on the ground). Vertical surfaces other than the goals (i.e. boards/walls) are fair game.
  • Leaning on the goal while playing goalie. If you accidentally bump the goal, this is not a penalty. If you are camped out in front of the goal using the goal to stay up, this is a penalty
  • Throwing or intentionally dropping your mallet
  • Extended arm pushing, punching or kicking is not acceptable and will have the same penalty as a footdown
  • Intentional ramming, or causing a Ňt-boneÓ is not acceptable and the t-boner will be instructed to tap out
• Scoring
  • To score a goal the ball must originate as a shot, and completely cross the goal line.
  • A shot is defined as a strike with the round end of the mallet.
    • A player must release the ball from a ball joint before shooting for it to be counted as a shot
  • All other offensive-mallet to ball contact is defined as a shuffle
  • If a ball is shuffled into the goal, possession is given to the defending team behind their goal
  • A ball that is shot by an offensive player, ricochets off of anything, excluding an offensive playerŐs shuffle, and crosses the goal line will be counted as a goal
  • If a shot that would have resulted in a goal that is interfered with by a thrown mallet, this will be counted as a goal
• Courts
  
  • Court 1: Street hockey rink 180 X 90 ft
  • Court 2: collapsible street hockey court 150 X 80 ft
  • Goals: Hockey nets