I've been involved with my home school speech league for ten years. Before that, I taught public school where I coached in a different league. Before THAT, I competed myself in yet another league. All of those leagues have operated with rules. Honestly, no one really loves rules. We understand the importance of them in maintaining a level playing field, but we don't really love them. Our human nature longs to kick against them and give ourselves more room. And when we do, we are in error. Becoming hyper sensitive to rules and every potential violation of those rules is the equal but opposite error. It creates a litigious environment where we are on the look-out for rules violators we can haul off to the compliance team to be punished. There are some dangerous harms in leaning to that side of the balance...