Hi BH_Lancelot! I'm the one who answered your question over email, so I figured for the benefit of people checking out this thread I would share the key parts of my response here:
https://beybase.app/rules/ appears to be a fan-operated site which has inserted some of their own rules into the official ones. It is not an official Takara Tomy website.
The description of how reversals work is directly from the official rules, and is correct.
https://www.takaratomyasia.com/img/beybl...dition.pdf
However, this section is nowhere in the official rules:
Quote:For a reversal to be valid, the Bey must return to the battle zone while maintaining its proper spinning orientation (tip/bit facing downward).
"Invalid reversal" is also not mentioned in the:
- Official rules video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUa9-iASn8
- Japanese version of the rulebook:
https://beyblade.takaratomy.co.jp/beybla...lation.pdf
The rules are very clear how a reversal works:
it just has to maintain its rotation.
The rules also define when a Bey would lose by spin finish:
"The moment the Bey's spinning speed in its original rotation direction becomes zero"
This topic has come up before, and people have argued that a Bey spinning "upside down" is not spinning in its original spin direction, because it's spinning in the opposite direction when viewed from above. But Takara Tomy has said exactly the opposite. The direction a Bey is spinning does not change depending on the angle it is viewed from.
- In this 2022 email (
https://x.com/Y_B_B_B_K_P_C/status/1491679487716921347), Takara Tomy explicitly says that a Bey that is upside down is still spinning in its original rotation direction.
- Another official message on this ruling:
https://x.com/Y_B_B_B_K_P_C/status/1658984303961997312
The user who posted these messages is themselves an official Beyblade judge in Japan, and they frequently post on X to clarify ruling questions.
To recap:- Official rules: "It is considered as a Reverse if the entire Bey, after entering the Xtreme zone or over zone or after leaving the stadium once, returns to the battle zone while maintaining its rotation. In this case, the Xtreme finish, over finish, or restart is canceled, and the battle continues."
- Official rules: "Spin Finish: The moment the Bey's spinning speed in its original rotation direction becomes zero."
- Takara Tomy's official communications: Confirm that a Bey spinning upside down in its original spin direction (regardless of orientation) is still considered to be spinning.
- Official rules (text and video, English and Japanese): No mention of the concept of an "invalid reversal."
Therefore (using ONLY the official Takara Tomy rules):
- WyvernHover enters the over zone, causing an over finish to occur
- WizardRod enters the Xtreme zone, causing an Xtreme finish to occur
- WyvernHover returns to the battle zone while maintaining its rotation (reverse), canceling the over finish
- WizardRod becomes unable to return to the battle zone, completing the Xtreme finish
- WyvernHover's spinning speed in its original rotation direction becomes zero, causing a spin finish to occur and complete
The winner is WyvernHover.
A big caveat: the rules for official events in different regions will be managed by different regional offices and distributors. It's entirely possible that someone officially involved with Beyblade's marketing and distribution in the Phillipines has communicated that this is how it should be ruled. However, this has no basis in the original Japanese rules. If your goal is to play as closely to the official Japanese environment as possible, you should consider this.
While our rulebook is different from the Takara Tomy rules, we put a lot of effort into understanding the official rules so that we can make educated decisions around what to expand upon and what to change (which honestly isn't very much). In the near future, we will release a list of differences between our rules and the official rules.
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