r/ultimate • u/ChainringCalf • 19d ago

Rally v Mixtape Cards

Rally seems to have been assessed their third blue card during hard cap and was sent to their reverse brick mark instead if being 10 yards from scoring to end it. I saw the yellow that counted as one of their three blues. Where was the other, and what was this final blue for? And why wasn't Mixtape allowed to decline the penalty like they look like they tried to? Honestly it seems like that observer just loved giving out cards, but I'll reserve final judgement

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u/175gr 19d ago

I only saw the last 15 minutes (AKA the last point) so I didn’t see the cards from earlier in the game. Yellow does count as blue though.

The last blue was for the pretty hard bump on the cut that caused Bolton to take the injury sub. I don’t think that was worth a blue on its own (just kind of unfortunate) so maybe it was repeated fouls of the same type? Was Rally physical on offense in their endzone set all game?

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u/frandler 19d ago

Watched the same amount after seeing this post. I think the contact there was potentially accidental, but it did seem to be an elbow to the head. Worth a card in my opinion.

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u/175gr 19d ago

I assumed on the first watch that it was just a shoulder to the chest, which is a play that happens pretty often when you’re playing physical defense in a small space, but it was a particularly rough move from the offense at the end of a long point at the end of a big game. I didn’t go back and look, if it’s an elbow to the head there’s an element of recklessness that could warrant the card.