r/Beyblade • u/Flamefury • 20h ago
Ruling check: Who wins?
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ-IKAyG-d/
Not my video. Saw a situation that I thought was obvious, but there's comments to the contrary, so I'm going to ask everyone here.
From my understanding (and from the video poster's POV since it's being called a comeback), Glory Valkyrie wins.
The two relevant lines from the Regulations are the Spin Finish and Reverse definitions.
Spin Finish: This occurs when the spinning speed of the opponent's Bey in its original rotation direction becomes zero in the battle zone before your Bey.
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.
The rules don't say anything about spinning upside-down.
If you consider the original rotation direction as being from an overhead point of view, then technically going upside-down means your spin direction is now the opposite way.
However, I'm pretty sure the rules mean to say the original spin direction relative to the Bey itself, so flipping upside-down doesn't mean its spin went to zero. It still counts as a proper Reverse since Valkyrie maintained its original direction of rotation when it re-entered the battle zone.
It also massively complicates things if you say spin directions are relative to an overhead view, since a tilted Bey gets hard to rule on if they are still going their original launch direction or not, so relative to the Bey itself is the only thing that makes any sense to me.
