4C.2.4 The Timer - End of a period or game

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Started 22 Nov 18:19

For the moment a period or games ends with the whistle of the timer.

14C.2.4 The Timer "At the end of each period, the Timer stops the game by blowing the whistle."

But in reality on the most playgrounds we use the technique of the score board of the gym.

Therefore I suggest to add a short part to the existing rule:

14C.2.4 The Timer "At the end of each period, the Timer stops the game by blowing the whistle or the game stops by the horn of the score board in use."

Comment 22 Nov 18:26

Sorry the heading should be "14C.2.4 The Timer - End of a period or game". (I can not find a way to correct the heading.)

Comment 22 Nov 18:42

Agreed

Comment 24 Nov 13:27

I totally agree.

Maybe we can even change the order (the score board is used more often):

14C.2.4 The Timer

At the end of each period, the game stops by the horn of the score board in use or the Timer stops the game by blowing the whistle.

 

Comment 24 Nov 18:29

Agreed

Comment 24 Nov 19:04

Agreed

Comment 25 Nov 08:43

As always, I try to find a very general solution which is short to
describe and doesn't rule out anything we didn't think of yet. For
example, you may have a scoreboard that doesn't make the sound of a horn
but instead the sound of a gong or a bell.
Maybe something like this:

"At the end of each period, the Timer stops the game with an acoustic
signal (for example whistle, horn)."

Comment 25 Nov 09:47

Ok. Or we could replace in Nicolai's sentence the horn with e.g. sound

Comment 25 Nov 14:05

I think sound or noise is better. 

Comment 25 Nov 15:55

In the first half a kind of machine (I named it "score board" and runs under the control of the timer) stops the game with a whatever sound, in the second half the timer has, as before, to use the whistle:

 

"At the end of each period, the game stops by an acoustic signal (e.g. horn, bell, gong) of a score board in use or the Timer stops the game by blowing the whistle."

Comment 27 Nov 20:07

"The end of each period is signaled by the acoustic sound (e.g. horn, bell, gong) of a score board or the blowing of a whistle by the timer

I think this wording works

Comment 28 Nov 17:39

Thumb up!

 If nobody has an better idea I would like to bring Stevens last wording to proposal.

Comment 29 Nov 04:53

Aren't all sounds acoustic? :-)

I tried to remove the redundancy:

"Each period is ended by the sound of the score board (e.g., horn, bell,
gong) or the blowing of a whistle by the timer"

Comment 29 Nov 11:14

This is Ok for the third sentence.

Now we should bring the idea also to Sentence 1 and 2 of this chapter.

"The Timer checks the time of play with a stopwatch." "The watch is started whenever the Referee starts the game by blowing the whistle."

When my team hosts a tournament we use both, the stopwatch (just in case of ...) and parallel the score board. A stopwatch has to be there anyway for the case someone player is sent to the penalty box.

"The Timer checks the time of play with a stopwatch and/or a score board."

"The watch time is started whenever the Referee starts the game by blowing the whistle."

The last sentence of this chapter should remain. The coming proposal should change the chapter in one go.

 

 

Comment 07 Dec 17:56

Agreed.

 

And you are correct Rolf acoustic signal works better