[Jdotmozy]

It was hokey. And I did not know about this rule beforehand. However, it was for the 5 - division 2 schools here in Japan. The round robin play only consisted of 4 innings of play, semi finals 5, and final game 7. They shortened the game lengths to save on pitching, because quite frankly, each team maybe had 1 JV level pitcher and a couple had a varsity level pitcher as well. The tourney was great and a lot of fun. I'm glad I was able to help out and will def return. As I said, these are small military base high schools here in the Far East and we were able to forget about the completely goofy offensive runs tie breaker rule. Not to mention the their reasoning for the ORTB contradicted shortening the games to save on pitching. Lol. Hopefully, next year we are able to talk them out of it.