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Originally Posted by psquared89
He left, the referees conferred, and he returned to say that they would not move tetras. He said told us that he spoke with the head of all head referees and that it was decreed that tetras would not be moved.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me why, when, and / or how the rule involving not moving tetras came into place?
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Well, it's very fortunate that it sounds like teams didn't run into problems with having no tetras to autoload, but unfortunate that the decision didn't follow clear rules stated early on. Update 2 clearly states that the crew should make reasonable attempts to refill depleted stations, which I think was a result from a few Q/As addressing this exact situation.
I wonder why, if the refs had access to all the rules and updates as they should, would make a decision that
could have potentially been a problem for some teams. We were counting 19+ tetras for each alliance in those finals, and if they had been all autoloaders, could have been a big issue. I don't think there's any reason a field volunteer couldn't have run a small stack of tetras over to the autoload side if depleted.
Oh well - lessons learned to improve for next year. Those final alliances were tough, and provided truly amazing finals rounds.