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Originally Posted by dubious elise
Why wasn't this enforced at BMR or during the practice/ qualification rounds at MWR? We had never been called for this until the semifinal match where our entire alliance ended up being disabled.
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It was not "called" in practice because practice rounds are neither scored nor refereed. A few of the refs. were out there at times during practice to educate the teams on the rules. When a tetra broke the plane, the team was told that it would cost them disablement during the competition.
The ruling was enforced early and often in the qualifying rounds. It happened in the second qualifying match when team #81 broke the plane. It continued to happen way into the eliminations.
The ruling was enforced the same at GLR, Detroit, and MWR. In each instance, the teams were warned in advance that "breaking the plane" would lead to being disabled. GLR had no calls; Detroit had a few; Midwest had bunches and bunches. What's wrong with that sequence of events? I'll tell you what's wrong. Teams are on their way to playing inside a plastic cage, or maybe not ever again should a tragedy occur, due to their insistence at throwing caution to the wind for the sake of scoring a three point tetra.