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See you have finally found it . . .
FEDlandia DOES NOT always follow their own rules. They even change playing rules during the season at times.
Just a touch about Tim Stevens:
Garth Benham has a fine article on THIS WEBSITE about Tim and his postion with Washington and FED you had outta give it a read.
Tim is quite a scholar, a good football offical and a long time FED/NCAA umpire. He has represented District Eight (PNW) on the FED baseball rules committee for the past two years.
Tim is also the event coordinator for the WIAA (Washington equivilant to the OSAA) and stages their state championship competitions.
I just called Tom Welter (Head of the OSAA) and asked him about "conformance" to FED rules. At this time Oregon is using a different timing structure in debate than the National Federation and therefore they are not following the rules. They are suffering no penalties.
As Tom put it, "Tee, this would be the same as if we selected to allow six personal fouls before disqualifing a player in a basketball game."
[Edited by Tim C on Nov 1st, 2002 at 06:09 PM]
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