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Originally Posted by Dakota
Apparently so, since they changed the case play to reflect the rule change.
I just don't understand the rationale behind the change. It is even more mystifying given the apparent back-door nature of the change (was not voted on at the national convention, etc.).
I wonder if it was somebody's pet change who was involved in the writing / editing of the rule book, and they just put it in. If so, that would not appear to have followed the process ASA has in place for changing the playing rules.
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It wasn't necessarily a "back door" change, sometimes they screw up and just don't get something in. Remember, it took two-years to get the U3K with 2 outs and 1B unoccupied to be corrected in the book.
This may have been done prior to 2002 and just not hit the book, that documentation I do not have. Also, a "fourth-out" appeal is more of a permissive interpretation than a rule and maybe that is how it was handled.