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Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

The head referee at Smoky Mountains came to our team and the team next to us in the pits first thing Friday morning and asked to speak with the drive teams; he specifically told us we were allowed to have a fifth person that did not count toward our 4 on the drive team that could stand on the side of the court and give hand signals. I assume he did the same to all the teams there.

Interesting. Thanks for the info; I wonder if refs at later regionals will also allow it, considering forum consensus seems to be that this wasn't allowed at Kettering or Alamo.