[Rick TYler]

At Seattle the FTA never touched the software. The "nobodies" at the scoring table ran the match system and printed the schedules. The scorekeepers are trained on the match software, not the FTAs (although there is no particular reason they couldn't know how to do it -- I just know they weren't at the training conference calls where we were taught how to build the match schedule). The only people who ever touched the scoring computer at Seattle were the scorekeepers.

There are even more reasons why the schedule might get rerun. Before we finalized our schedule we generated (edited: I think it was three) variations. We needed to get a particular team in the first two matches because there was a television crew present to shoot that team for a feature they were doing, and the crew couldn't hang around until they came up in the schedule. This was before it was distributed, though, so it might not have violated the rule. Even if it had I can pretty much guarantee that the event director would have redone the matches Friday morning if it guaranteed television coverage. I suspect she would do even more than changing the match schedule, actually, but that's a different story.