Inspection oversight DQ's team in the quarters

[Tristan Lall]

<R16> via <S02> calls for a penalty plus an optional a yellow card. A red card and disablement doesn't seem correct in this instance, if you've accurately described the violation. This could definitely have been considered a field fault affecting the outcome of a match (those can include errors by event personnel), and as a result, a replay probably should have been ordered.

However, there's nothing particularly wrong with the referees calling <S02> on you without warning—it really is your responsibility to comply with all robot rules. It applies equally to the cases where a team makes a change and doesn't get reinspected, and to the cases where an inspector misses the violation. Although they're not the same from a team's perspective, from the perspective of an official, there's no simple way of knowing whether the team was trying to cheat.

Regarding taking the timeout: there's a very strict schedule for calling a timeout. Unless you happened to ask the referee at the correct time, it wouldn't have been possible to use it anyway.