Hello Dodgeball Fans! We've had to make a late minute rule change for this year's eighth annual Ephrata Dodgeball Tournament. Sadly, we've decided to eliminate an aspect of the game that we used to enjoy watching. However the last few tournaments this allowance has been abused. Players have gotten more and more aggressive, to the point where we've even seen small children, who were merely spectating, shoved out of the way to retrieve a ball out of bounds.

We realized last year that it was only a matter of time until someone got hurt. And that's simply not acceptable.

Ergo, the boundaries have been re-defined. There will no longer be two "gates" at the back corner to exit the field of play to retrieve balls out of bounds. There will only be one gate, and it will be on the right side of your teams' court. Any exit of the playing field through the left side of the court will constitute in that player being declared out.

This means that there will no longer be races or confrontations for balls out of bounds, your team will only have access to balls laying out of bounds on the right side of the court [when facing the center line].

We've added a new rules PDF in the download section. The only change is the item mentioned here.

Let's have fun, let's play honest, and let's make a difference!