Rules
Two teams formed by 4 or 5 players try to attain a certain score (usually 10 points) by throwing each oher a ball with the hand so that the opposing team is not able to send it back. Not so much ago there was another scoring system called "up and down" (a pujar i baixar), where the team who was losing subtracted points to the winner.
Teams wear in red and blue t-shirts, being red the colour of the team allegedly stronger or favourite in the bets.
Players receive a name depending on their position on the street:
- The banca is in charge of beginning every quinze by serving, from one side of the street.
- The rest, from the other side of the street, is who usually replies the banca. Both players are the stronger pilotaris.
- The mitger is in the middle of his midfield, his purpose is sending the ball as far as possible.
- The punter is in front of the opposing team or into their midfield, he must block the ball or throw it to the non protected places.
Every point consists in four quinzes: 15, 30, val, and joc. The team who wins the joc scores a point.
The quinze begins when the banca serves: From the other side of the banca line the player must send himself the ball and (without any bounce) hit it to throw it so that it surpasses the fault line without touching the ground, then the opposing team may hit it back or block it so that it doesn't advance anymore.
In Llargues the ball must be hit with the hand when it's on the air or after its first rebound on the ground, to send it to the opposing team's field or behind the line that marks the end of the street. When the player blocks the ball he may touch it with any part of his body (but only after the second bounce), in that case a line is done on the ground (actually, a signal is placed on the sidewalk).
The main feature of Llargues are the ratlles (Valencian for lines), the signals set in the place where the ball has been blocked every quinze. The ball may be blocked because it's been thrown to the spectators and hasn't come back to the playing area, or, more likely, because a player has chosen to stop its advance when he realized he can't hit it back properly. In case the ball gets blocked on any roof or balcony the quinze is lost for whoever sent it there.
When a team has got 2 ratlles teams change the fields they'll try to score those pending points. Also, if the banca team gets a val they must change the field, even if they have only one ratlla.
When serving, they try to get direct quinzes or win the pending ratlles. Those ratlles are now the fault line. This way, the farer they've got the ratlla the more places has to defend the opponent and the more non protected areas there will be.
Direct quinzes are scored when:
- If a team send the ball behind the opponent's street end line.
Or because a fault of the opponent:
- If the ball bounces twice.
- If a player touches the ball twice, or a player of the same team touches it after one hit.
- If the banca player doesn't reach the fault line.
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