uma kleppinger

Wow! That's a lot of detail you got from your official! Kind of hard to believe actually. We got a small bit of that but not all. Maybe we didn't get that detail because we were one of the early groups to go off and they hadn't quite figured out what to say or how to say all of that yet? If the centerline rule was bent for the start, why was an official waving us down and pointing us inside the lane as we came past a group that was about to start? I do know the official who gave us our instructions wasn't reading from any kind of cue sheet, he was just looking at a clipboard with the start times and team names. Maybe he just forgot to tell us? Did anyone else

Whether the 15-minute limit for the protest is upheld or the evidence is consider after the fact, I propose the starting official have a checklist of instructions to repeat verbatim for each team. This was discussed at the officials training in March to help tighten up this sort of inconsistency.

I'll take any additional comments off-line.

~uma