Rulings

[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.