You can find the full FIT rules here,
but you probably don't want to read them, so here is a simple version,
which assume you know roughly how the game works. (Alternatively, if you
know what rugby league is like, then touch is just like 6-a-side
league, but without kicking, tackling, scrums or lineouts.) - There are two teams of six players, and they play on a pitch measuring 50m wide by 70m long.
- One team starts off by taking a tap from the half-way line.
- They
run forwards, passing the ball to each other, until they place the ball
over the touchdown line at the far end of the pitch, or they lose
possession to the opposition.
- Every time a player is touched by a
defender, the touched player places the ball on the ground and rolls it
back to one of his team-mates, who picks it up and passes it to another
team-mate.
- Once a team in possession of the ball has been
touched six times, possession is given to the opposition, who continue
play with a rollball at the position of the sixth touch.
- You
score by placing the ball over the touchdown line, scoring one point.
(This is not really a “try” because there’s no conversion, but people
generally call it a try anyway!)
- Game Over!
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