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Old Tue Dec 24, 2013, 08:11am
Raymond Raymond is offline
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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
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2. Allow it to be penalized whenever it's discovered. This would enable an unscrupulous scorer to make the change, then keep that T in his back pocket until the most opportune time: such as when the score is tied and there's .1 second left on the clock (an extreme example, but you get the point).

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It's just as likely that an unscrupulous or uneducated scorer will make the change, then wait to notify the officials at a subsequent dead ball, so that it is too late to charge the T.

I'm with JAR on this one, once it's discovered that a name has been added, penalize at that point.
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