alignment penalty

[FMadera]

I'll play devil's advocate:

"Out of serving order" doesn't necessarily mean, to me, "illegal alignment." I can easily read that as "wrong server." A muddled interpretation of that phrase could certainly change one's view on how the penalty should be applied. Had they meant that the serving team had to be aligned correctly, they certainly could have indicated that. But...they didn't.

Correct server. Team A is overlapped at the legal contact of serve. Team B is overlapped at the legal contact of serve. The "serving order" was correct, in that we indeed had the correct server, so...replay could be a conceivable option.

Another example of less than clear wording.

[MCBear]

This humble one will attempt to correct his previous error as learned colleagues have shown that "I blew it big time!!!!"

I should have cited Rule 6:
ART. 3 . . .At the moment of serve:

b. All players, including the libero, shall be in correct serving order.

PENALTIES:

1. For illegal alignment, loss of rally/point is awarded to the opponent for:

a. Overlapping by players other than the server at the moment a legal serve occurs;

and then Rule 8-2:

PENALTIES:

2. For the receiving team being out of position when there is a service fault, a point is awarded to the serving team.

To make it short and sweet...as Bob so astutely pointed out in his post, this is a double foul = replay.

I continue to learn from the great store of knowledge and wisdom of most learned colleagues!