[cmathews]

Mark,
I did not mean to offend you with my assertation that you led Mary down the path to your conclusion. You in as much admitted this yourself later. I personally don't list my position or defense of that position when I ask for official interps from our rules interpreter. I give the play, and let them do the leg work etc. I still hold to the fact that only the states can ask for an official interp from the NFHS, that is the offical reply I got from them. We have all discussed many times here that you have to do what your assingors, interpreters want you to do, so having varying interps for the same play in different states is not odd, probably more common than we would all care to think about.

As for the changing of the time from 2.8 to 2:56, you can't change the time because it isn't correctable nor a timer's mistake, so in strict adhereance to this guideline in the original play the game would be over...but I still would have a hard time not invoking 2-3 for the same reasons BZ listed above.