There will be three separate rulebooks in Millennium this year: Millennium 7-player rules , NXL rules and Division X Ball rules.Originally posted by Fatty
Hi steve
i was wondering how you are going to mix Xball and 7 man rules or will you make directly new rules for millenium xball?
also if the no padding at shoulders rule comes is it fine to play with dye tops if you take off shoulder tops?
Concerning the 7-player rules, I hope to know exactly what those rules will be within the next day or so; Millennium and NPPL are supposed to become almost identical again and we've been working on that.
EXL rules are exactly the same as NXL rules although there may be some very small differences in interpretation. The Division X Ball rules are exactly the same as what PSP uses in America and almost identical to NXL rules. The main difference is 20 minute halves for Division X Ball and 25 minute halves for NXL/EXL.
There are many rules in all the major league rulebooks which are identical. As I've pointed out on this thread earlier NPPL, PSP and NXL all make it clear where padding is allowed to be and not allowed to be. A compromise was made last season to allow Dye jerseys with padded shoulders if the undershirts under them didn't have shoulders. I want to get rid of the ridiculous situation where judges have to take the time and energy to dig under players' shirts to check that. This matter hasn't been decided completely yet but I'm suggesting that teams that have Dye tops with padded shoulders be prepared with a back-up plan (alternate jerseys) It could be that we will have to phase out the Dye jerseys with padded shoulders over the period of one, two or more tournaments to give teams a chance to find alternatives. We'll see.
Steve