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Originally Posted by M. Krass
For the sake of discussion, this is the text from the update:
Dave's already mentioned that the referees exceeded their authority in this case, so I hope that means that others have been instructed or otherwise informed that this sort of fabrication is unacceptable.
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I think this just gets back to the question I asked in another tread about the yellow and red cards. This will make the FIRST yellow and red card system useless because refs will feel that they don't have the authority even though T06 lists examples and states that is not limited too just the examples given. I believe the yellow and red card system works great for IRI because there is one head ref (Andy). FIRST can never cover every situation that might come up during a regional making it necessary to give refs some freedom.
I also have to disagree that Dave has said that the referee exceeded his authority in this case. Dave commented on "The head referee should have been informed that he was "enforcing" a nonexistent rule." and Dave said "correct". Ron was questioned by my team about where he had come up with this ruling and in the end referred to rule T06. T06 does basically give the head ref this authority to make a judgment about the level of defense. Also G53 gives him final say for any particular regional without any worries. We can't blame a ref that reads the rules and follows them. You need to blame the people/organization writing them.