If you are a fan of officiating, as you say, then you'd understand the position of the officials. But you don't. You continue to quote rules verbatim without acknowledging how they are interpreted. That's your perogative. It puts perspective on your complaints about officials.

At last week's state championships, a rider was DQ'd for folding his number. Not crinkling, folding. He was warned not to fold the week before by one of the officials who had worked both races, but he stubbornly refused and showed up next week with a folded number, so it was dealt with.