[Paul Copioli]

rich2202,

Please do not take the following sentences as an attack as I surely do not mean them to be, but ...

All of your responses to me are your interpretation and they are way more rigid than the suggestion of a Blue box in the rules. If you are a ref, then I do not want to be at your events because my team experience will be horrible if you do, in fact, enforce the rules as you have explained.

If 60 seconds is a suggestion, then why do you have a hard limit at 60 seconds? Also, how can you seriously tell people to hurry at 50 seconds if they don't actually know when 50 seconds is? Do you verbally count them out? Is there a timer like for timeouts? Do you give your crew a stopwatch?

I don't mean to be a jerk, but the vagueness that causes VASTLY different enforcement criteria by different refs is frustrating, to say the least.

Your post simply highlighted all the inconsistencies this vagueness can cause.

Paul