Brute Squad v. Riot (2016 Nationals - women's final)

Boston Brute Squad faces Seattle Riot in the women's final at the 2016 National Championships.
Footage by ESPN.

[@solfeinberg437]

30:15 and the Boston goal right after. 13 (Malinowski) throws and goes - she gets such awesome separation at will every time I see her cut - goes to the endzone, the defender is closing in fast. She just scoops the disc up and says, "Wrong. Mine." The way she pancakes it and takes it out of the line of the bidding defender just cracks me up. These ladies are just wow. I'd love to play with them, but my person would probably always be open and I probably couldn't get open. Super fun to watch!

[@YanYeiDei]

10:54 is a double turn over. Page lay out D, catches with one hand, moves disc to other hand, but in attempt to do so drops disc to ground.

[@doktarr]

Nope. The disc pops out when it hits the ground. That's clearly loss of possession due to ground contact related to the catch, which negates possession up to that point.

[@solfeinberg437]

Bit after 1:30:00. Shazam Re-returns?

[@solfeinberg437]

45:02 travel? She picked her pivot foot up twice - maybe the first time was just settling in. And she drug it on the throw (before or after the disc was released?). I think travel sounds like a reasonable call. Did she gain any advantage - scoot a couple inches out of Malinowski's reach?

[@rachelbarr5921]

No captions?? Deaf people like Ultimate, too.

[@wholesofparodox]

This is a dirty game. But I would like to point out that the throw at 44:24 is a clear travel. There are 4 observers, why was the closest observer not looking at the handler's feet. This is, for me the most valuable reason to have observers on the field; and I understand when you only have two observers but this is a NATIONALS FINAL. I understand that observer's miss things, but the handler traveled before she established her pivot for the throw as you can see on the replay. Maybe

[@wholesofparodox]

DIRTY AS IN AMAZING***

[@lucbouchard8044]

Definitely a travel. She slid her pivot foot

[@doktarr]

Travel is not an active observer call. A player has to make the call.

[@wholesofparodox]

Travels aren't active calls but one observer should be looking at the handler's feet at all times. The player called the travel, but the observer wasn't looking at her feet to overrule the contest and make the travel call.

[@aFeinPhoto]

Hard to have observers look at everything at all time. Def a double or triple travel though.