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The rules say that we need at least 5 cm of track after a gap. What is "track" defined as? Can it be a sideways cup or funnel? Can it bounce at all and keep on going. Hard to see how it can get through a gap and not bounce some, but the rules seem to indicate that the ball can't bounce. We just want to catch it on a wide surface (on which it might bounce some), and then funnel it back to our track. Is that allowed?

jtenelsh wrote: ↑February 17th, 2023, 11:00 am The rules say that we need at least 5 cm of track after a gap. What is "track" defined as? Can it be a sideways cup or funnel? Can it bounce at all and keep on going. Hard to see how it can get through a gap and not bounce some, but the rules seem to indicate that the ball can't bounce. We just want to catch it on a wide surface (on which it might bounce some), and then funnel it back to our track. Is that allowed?

Yes, all balls will bounce to some degree on landing. Rule 3 j vi, about bouncing, means that you can't launch the ball in the air, bounce it off the floor and up into a catcher, and claim that the whole thing is a "gap". You also can't have the gap terminate in a wall: the ball must land on something you call "track" and then continue to move at least 5.0 cm in the direction of the "track".

Your track could be wide at the landing position, and then narrow. That's OK. There's no rule that regulates the width of your track.