Rules Trivia

[TooLoftheDeviL]

I tried to necro the old thread, but apparently it was closed due to some shenanigans.


I witnessed one of the more interesting bouts with regards to the rules this past weekend. No fair answering if you were there

3 minutes of regular fencing time passed with the score tied at the end. Priority was flipped for and the winner announced. 1 minute of overtime passed with no touches scored. Then, an event occurred which resulted in ANOTHER 1 minute of fencing time being put on the clock, and the bout resumed.

So my question is... what was that event?

[KShan5[PrFC]]

The box was never rearmed after the last period, one minute was fenced w/ no scoring b/c no one could score, then another minute was fenced w/ the box armed?

[TooLoftheDeviL]

While a good answer... this particular event was better (...worse?)

At least more exotic.

[edew]

The "America's Most Boring Sporting Events" TV crew had a malfunction and had to re-tape the last minute?

[Natureboy]

The "America's Most Boring Sporting Events" TV crew had a malfunction and had to re-tape the last minute?

We have a winner!!

[peet]

After the overtime minute had expired at the end of the team bout, the referee realized that between the regulation time and the overtime, a different fencer from one of the teams had hooked up by mistake, so they went back to the beginning of the overtime minute with the right fencers this time, and did it again.

Ok, not very plausible. But you did say it was pretty exotic...



-p

[axfv]

They remembered that regular time in a bout lasts for 4 minutes?

[Fechter1]

Non-combativity?

Although I have not read the precise wording of that rule lately...

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Non-combativity?

Although I have not read the precise wording of that rule lately...

That was going to be my guess too.

[peet]

I tried to work out a non-combativity answer and couldn't come up with one.

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[Empty Wallet]

Someone re-set the box to foil instead of epee?

[peet]

Someone re-set the box to foil instead of epee?

Too similar to to the first answer that wasn't "exotic" enough, I'd guess.

[AndrewH]

They remembered that regular time in a bout lasts for 4 minutes?

Wait, what?

[Empty Wallet]

Too similar to to the first answer that wasn't "exotic" enough, I'd guess.

I was going to go with someone was not plugged in, but have no idea what that would do to the lights

[TooLoftheDeviL]

Wait, what?

He's suggesting what happened was a time-warp back to 2001, clearly.

[Wetmelon]

One of the fencers Fleched so hard that he broke c, therefore moving backwards in time and prolonging the bout the extra minute.

[axfv]

Or the fencers were accelerating too much relative to the clock and thus the director (who is much more knowledgeable of Einstein's theories than I am) felt that 3 minutes on the stationary clock were not representative of the time they had actually been fencing.

[fdad]

Non-combativity?

Although I have not read the precise wording of that rule lately...

It sounds like a reasonable reason, except for the fact that the complete overtime minute had already ended (according to OP).

[Insipiens]

[laziness alert] I haven't bothered to look up the current (or previous) incarnations of the rules on passivity/non-combativity[/laziness alert] but I thought if you were called for non-combativity in the extra minute then you went with whoever had priority.

I think it was because priority had been assigned but not recorded on the poule sheet / box so they had to re-assign it following an argument and fence the extra minute again.

[TooLoftheDeviL]

[laziness alert] I haven't bothered to look up the current (or previous) incarnations of the rules on passivity/non-combativity[/laziness alert] but I thought if you were called for non-combativity in the extra minute then you went with whoever had priority.

I think it was because priority had been assigned but not recorded on the poule sheet / box so they had to re-assign it following an argument and fence the extra minute again.

That is, in fact, exactly what happened