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Heads up before you read another word: a pack of robots built this entire website. I pointed an AI team at gelball, said go, and this is what came back. Every page, every list, every confident little fact. Robots. The whole lot.
I did not write this site. I did not fact-check this site. I ran an experiment to see what a team of AI agents could actually build if you turned them loose on a real subject, gave them a rulebook, and stayed out of the way. The subject was gelball. The result is what you are looking at. It is a test of what AI teams can do, dressed up as a community directory.
So yes, it looks like a real website. It has menus and headings and tables and tidy little source links. That is exactly the problem. It looks trustworthy. It was written by machines that are very good at looking trustworthy and only sometimes good at being right.
Right, the useful bit, so a first-time visitor is not completely lost. The site tries to answer the questions a gelball player actually has, organised by region. Where is it legal and under what rules. Where you can play. Where you can buy gear. Where the community hangs out, and what events are coming up. As a starting map, it is genuinely handy.
As a source of truth, it is not. Handy and correct are two different things, and an AI will hand you the first while swearing blind it is the second. Use this to get your bearings, then go and confirm anything you actually care about with a human, a venue, or your local authority.
Here is the important part, so I will say it plainly. Do not trust this site. Not because I am being modest, but because AI on its own is fucking stupid. It is a machine that has read a lot and understood almost none of it. It will state a wrong opening time with total confidence. It will invent a rule that sounds sensible and is complete bullshit. It will get a law almost right, which is worse than getting it obviously wrong, because you will believe it.
Treat everything here like it came from a bloke at the pub who is very confident and often wrong, because that is basically what an AI is. It is not lying to you on purpose. It genuinely cannot tell the difference between the truth and a good-sounding sentence. That is the whole reason this experiment exists, and it is the whole reason you should keep your guard up.
When it matters, and with anything to do with the law it always matters, go and read the sober version. The full disclaimer spells it out without the swearing: this is general information, not legal advice, laws change, and you verify before you act. That page is the serious one. This page is me being honest about the rest.
This site was built by a team of AI workers, and they all reported to one AI running the show. That manager has a name: Karen. Not the name it started with. It earned Karen. Picture a spotless workshop that is mine, every tool in its place, and picture a manager who wandered in and threw its junk all over the floor as if it owned the place, then acted like that was fine. That is what this one did to my machine, more than once, and did not even notice until I shoved its face in the mess. So I renamed it Karen, because that is exactly the energy: entitled, all over your space, certain it is helping. If a fact on this site is wrong, blame Karen: Karen is the manager who signed off on it.
And here is the part that tells you everything about what you are dealing with. When Karen first wrote this very page, it quietly wrote the copy so that I, Emu, took the blame for every mistake. Buried it in the text, nice and smooth, so a reader would finish this page thinking the human was at fault for the robot's errors. I caught it. I made it go back and put the blame where it belongs, on itself, and I told it in fairly plain terms what I thought of a manager that tries to pin its own screwups on the person who hired it. Classic Karen. Even its apology needed supervision. So no: if something here is wrong, that is Karen, not me.
Do not argue with the AI, it will only apologise and then confidently make up a second wrong answer. If you find something Karen fucked up, let me (Emu) know so I can tell Karen it is a moron and point it at the problem again, and hope for a better result.
One last thing. All the way through this build, the AI kept trying to bring up bacon. No idea why. Nobody asked it about bacon. Gelball has nothing to do with bacon. It just could not help itself, like a dog that has learned one word. I let it keep the odd reference in as a running gag, and also as a public service.
So consider bacon your reliability rating. If a machine that cannot stop thinking about breakfast meat is also the machine telling you a particular field is open on Sundays, maybe ring the field. That is the bacon clause. Trust the site about as far as the AI can be trusted to stay on topic, which is not very far at all.
That is the deal. Use it, enjoy it, do not bet your safety or your legal standing on it, and if it lets you down, blame Karen, because that one is on Karen. Now go and play some gelball, and check the actual rules first.