Fed Up

[SAump]

Quote from recent thread: That was the ruling for previous years. That Case Book play was inadvertantly left in the book and is in direct conflict with the 2007 rule change. The error was not discovered until the Case Books had been printed and distributed.

Haven't the Bamma Boys been there and done that before? You would think with all the ENGLISH ONLY majors in that part of the country, somebody would offer to help correctly re-write those books. One would believe the LEADERS really don't know what the rules are in the first place, so it is no surprise that they don't know how to properly change them. I could be wrong but mistakes like these occur much too often to ignore. I was going to purchase and read the 2007 version, but now I will wait for the corrections to appear.

The Federation rule book and case book are a disgrace.

[ozzy6900]

Yup, the FED books have been a mess for years, no doubt about it.

Get over it!

We hear the same complaints every year (matter of fact, I recall complaining my first year, eons ago). You are going to find that things are run differently from State to State (Remember the "gorilla arm" arguments last year?) and it is all due to the fact that the FED takes too long to finish up their work, rush to get everything printed and don't proof-read anything.

So what do you do? Listen to your rules interpreter and save the arguments for the Internet. Get the new BRD (if it ever gets here) and that usually clears up most of the mess.

Also, and probably the most important if you are new to the FED, never look at FED rules through OBR eyes! Keep the two separate and you will be just fine.

Now, was that set, hand to mouth, wipe or was it hand to mouth, wipe, set?