No wreck, ship
I agree with the others here. No train wreck, no interference, obstruction on F6. Since F1 fielded the ball, F6 could not be a protected fielder. ( I can see no way for F6 to beat F1 to the ball unless she was playing waaay in, in which case there shouldn't have been a collision in the first place. )
My disagreement here is on where to place the runner. I think R1 should get 3rd even if she was out by the proverbial mile. Here is my reasoning, since R1 collided with F6, there is no way to tell how much farther along the base path she would have been without the collision and more importantly what affect that added distance would have had on the subsequent play. Maybe she could have slid around the tag, or maybe her imminent presence at 3rd would have caused F5 to momentarily glance away and misplay the ball, or cause F1 to rush the throw and throw the ball away. For all anyone knows, this runner might have ended up scoring. Since I don't have a window into alternate reality, and can't predict whether or not any of these possibilities would have happened, my tendancy is to give the runner all benefit of the doubt and award 3rd in this case.
JMO,
SamC
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