Person on phone making call to tournament central: Dana Vicich, Asst TD Course Design for the event. He contacted myself (Course TD for Lake Eureka Temp and also Asst TD Rules for the overall event). Whether or not I made the right call there (that's the much later post). It wasn't just some random person calling some other random person and getting involved. We were precisely the correct people to be doing what we were doing.
Good to know all those details, now. Thanks.
It's too bad (perhaps, even a little irksome
) that the 2500 live viewers were left guessing about all of those and many other relevant details, as the rules scrum was happening at the #6 DZ. But it's all good. Terry was doing the best he could, I'm sure, with all the chaos going on.
I'm still curious why Steve Dodge was the only named voice of authority ringing loud and clear during the situation, if he wasn't the one authorized to make the ruling.
I'm also curious why Dodge kept calling McBeth's throw from the DZ a "provisional." I thought that was funny.
I also haven't heard an explanation how rule 803.06 could ever be ignored. I'm assuming a waiver was obtained. How do waivers get granted? Is it on a case-by-case basis? If a waiver was granted to discard rule 803.06 for #6, I find that irksome
by itself. Rule 803.06 seems like a pretty important rule - it has its own entry in the book, after all, with no qualifications or expansions.
It's also too bad there wasn't a TD proxy accompanying the card, on the tee in the first place, to tell McBeth to not re-tee and go straight to the DZ, thus avoiding any of the irksome confusion that followed.
In fact, I'm sure there's a good reason, but I wonder why TD's of big tournaments don't assign a TD proxy to follow any card that's being televised, so these situations don't happen in front of so many viewers and to avoid any unwanted irking. If one's interested in growing an audience, it's not a good look.
Actually, maybe these kind of chaotic, irksome situations do build audiences - a lot of people seem to be talking about it and it was a source of much heated discussion on the chat room during the broadcast for a solid hour after it happened. Who knows.
Anyway, sorry for irking you with my criticism.