Rulings

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by Insane Blue

Here is how I would rule without looking in the rulebook..

Sit. 1 S5 is back to serve. As she contacts the serve a ball from another court rolls onto the court and under the net. The R1 stops play and signals for a replay, Team B then executes a libero replacement.
legal replacement as the ball is whistled dead and you have a replay.

Sit 2 S5 is back to serve. After she hits the ball, R2 signals the Team R out of rotation, and the ball fails to cross the net legally. Team R's coach questions the call and the R2 realizes his call was incorrect. What's the call?
Replay as the ref killed the play before the ball hit the ground.

Sit 3. S5 tosses the ball to serve and swings and misses. Team R then executes a libero replacement. What's the call?
Illegal as this is a reserve and the beckon from the first serve means no Subs until the play finishes.

2 out of 3 correct. The one you missed is one I likely would have missed as well. I will see if anyone else answers before I give the correct answers.

[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

2 out of 3 correct. The one you missed is one I likely would have missed as well. I will see if anyone else answers before I give the correct answers.

#2 - illegal alignment is determined at the moment of contact of the serve per 6-4-3-b, so the R2's immediate whistle of the fault is correct

[FMadera]

2 is just a missed serve. Inadvertent whistle did not affect play in this case.

[oldsetter]

Or to rephrase it: The inadvertent whistle did not cause the serve to become a fault. Loss of rally.

[TimTaylor]

Originally Posted by oldsetter

Or to rephrase it: The inadvertent whistle did not cause the serve to become a fault. Loss of rally.

My bad... in re-reading sit #2 it is apparently saying that the R2 realized after they whistled for illegal alignment and the coach questioned the call, that team R wasn't actually out of alignment.

In this case, the proper ruling is replay. Per 9-3-3-k the ball becomes dead when a referee's whistle sounds. anything that happens after the ball is dead, i.e. the serve fails to legally cross the net as in the example, is irrelevant.

[FMadera]

Originally Posted by TimTaylor

In this case, the proper ruling is replay. Per 9-3-3-k the ball becomes dead when a referee's whistle sounds. anything that happens after the ball is dead, i.e. the serve fails to legally cross the net as in the example, is irrelevant.

No. Inadvertent whistle. Did not affect the serve going into the net. Therefore, we proceed as if there was no whistle. Service fault, point to the receiving team. NOT a replay!

[chapmaja]

Correct answer. #2 is a loss of rally from the serve into the net. The whistle for an illegal alignment was an inadvertent whistle, HOWEVER it never impact the result of the play.