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Originally Posted by jds2001

Not sure what you mean here - the rules (and Q&A - in particular Q439) make it very clear that "support" is only transitive through other TOTES - not any other object that may be on the FIELD, regardless of whether it was intended to be there or not. Is this a literal interpretation of that? Yes, but if you start reading things into the rules that aren't there, then they become sort of "guidelines", not rules.

If I were a ref (which I'm not) the deciding factor for me would be if I could easily dislodge that button from the stack - i.e. is it just there on the edge of a TOTE, or is it really wedged in there? If the former, it scores - there is unambiguously no support being provided by the button. If the latter, then it doesn't score. From the picture, it could go either way. Of course, I defer to the ref at the match for the ruling, which was that it didn't score.

What I meant by Bureaucratic is this:

Overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense.