page_title: Escala i corda
section_title: Rules
hierarchical_section_title: Escala i corda / Rules
caption_attribution_description: Pic of León (Rafael Soler Tomás) playing a "Escala i corda" game and getting ready to hit a bouncing ball from the "rest" field. Imatge de León jugant una partida d'escala i corda tornant una pelota al rebot al rest
context_page_description: Escala i corda is the most prestigious variant of Valencian pilota, and the only one apart from raspall to have professional players.
context_section_description: The objective of an Escala i corda game is sending the ball over a net by hitting it with the hand. When the opponent does not return it, the sending team wins the quinze.
  Matches are played to 12 games, counting 5 to 5: every game scoring is valid for 5 points. Every game is divided in 4 "quinzes" (15, 30, val and game). The team who first gets 60 points for 12 games is the winner.
  Every quinze begins when the "feridor" player throws the ball to the opponent "dauer", who must turn it back to the team in the "rest" midfield. This way, both teams will be sending each other the ball over the net, only hitting it by hand; they may hit the ball in the air or when it has bounced once on the ground. This continues until one of the teams is not able to throw it back or a "fault " is committed.
  "Faults":
  When the ball bounces twice, or the same team (or player) touches it twice.
  When the ball touches the net or passes under it.
  When, in the "ferida", the ball doesn't enter into the "dau".
  There is also a way to get direct "quinzes", by throwing the ball to the gallery of the trinquet or the "llotgeta" and without the ball coming back.
  In some competitions this is not allowed, such as the Circuit Bancaixa league or special challenges. This is because this way of scoring is too easy for certain players and is regarded as less spectacular. Anyway, in one-on-one matches "galleries" are allowed.
caption: León throws himself to the ground to play a bouncing ball on the rest wall
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