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Originally posted by Perseus
all the referees are volunteers. they do not always know the rules.
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Forgive me, then, but why are they refs!? The refs at basketball game know the rules. The refs at a hockey game know the rules.
Anyway, after the update, the rules reads, "Each team in an alliance must compete in at least one match in each series . . . Therefore, the team that did not compete in the first match of a series should compete in the second match of the series."
While I agree the original wording could be ambiguous, the new wording is most certainly not.
If an announcement is made that indicates a change in a rule, at least it should be consistent from one regional to the next. In this case, though, it seems as if the announcement was made without regard to the actual rule, and rather as a clarification of what the referee's assumed to be true.
Either way, I'd just like to know which way it'll be for Nationals.