IQA Rulebook - International Quidditch Association

the goaltending.
2.5. Scoring on Fallen or Broken Hoops
If a hoop is broken, displaced, or in any way knocked down, play continues. The goal referee must
fix the hoop whenever play around it subsides. No one may score in a hoop that has been dislodged.
Intentionally dislodging a hoop results in a caution. If a hoop is upright at the time of a shot and falls
after the release of the quaffle, a goal still counts. Failing this, a goal does not count if scored in a broken
hoop until that hoop has been entirely fixed.
If all three of a team’s hoops are broken, the head referee must stop play until they are fixed.
2.6. The Knockout Effect
Getting Knocked Out
If a player is struck with a live bludger on any part of her body (including the head) or any part of her
broom or clothing, that player has been “knocked out.” The bludger must leave the hand or foot of
the attacking beater before it hits the other player in order to take effect. Any beater that taps another
player with a bludger without releasing it, with the intention of deceiving that player into believing
she is knocked out, must be cautioned.
A bludger is live after being thrown or kicked until that bludger touches the ground. Every opposing
player struck by the bludger before it touches the ground is subject to the knockout effect.
Friendly Fire - If a beater hits a teammate with a bludger, there is no effect. The beater who initially
released the bludger cannot be knocked out by her own bludger.
Procedure
After being struck by a bludger, the player must do the following before she is allowed to participate
in any part of the match:
• Give up possession of any ball by dropping it. While giving up possession, the player must not
pass, toss, roll, or kick the ball.
• Dismount the broom.
• Retreat back to her set of hoops.
• Touch any part of any hoop.
• Get back on the broom.
Knocked out players are out of play and may not interact with any players or balls in any way.
They may not sub out of the game.
If a seeker is hit by a bludger before or during a snitch snatch, the snitch snatch does not count.
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