We had a couple of protests regarding the day we went around the
Green Swamp:

https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results

https://airtribune.com/2019-quest-air-nationals-week-2/results/task4007/day/open-class

The problem is that after the pilot meeting a waypoint was added. The waypoint
added a very slight increase in the task length (0.6%).

Famish was the added waypoint:

Unfortunately three pilots were not cognizant of the task change. Kevin Dutt,
Bruce Barmakian and me. Fortunately I was flying with Larry Bunner and he told
me on the radio to go get the Famish turnpoint. Kevin and Bruce didn't hear
about the waypoint until after their flights. Bruce made a verbal complaint to
the meet director which latter led to two written protests

The meet director made a number of errors so that there wasn't full
communication between the pilots and the task committee. She appointed a protest
committee to sort out the problem.

The first judgment of the protest committee was to cancel the day. This was met
with almost universal opprobrium. There were lengthy discussions before and after
the protest committee met for the first time that were held on the What's App
groups set up by the meet director. All the issues were brought up and
thoroughly adjudicated.

The protest committee was convinced to meet again and to reconsider their
conclusion. This is what Section 7A states:

5.5.2 Result of Complaint or Protest

If a protest from a pilot or group of pilots calls for the retrospective
cancellation of a scored task, the jury must consider the position of other
pilots in the competition. If the protest is justified, the jury should consider
how to compensate the affected pilots, but should only consider cancelling the
task if there is no other fair option.

There were multiple fair options other than canceling the day. The
protest committee came up with a reasonably fair option: Score the day with the
original task without the addition of the Famish waypoint because not all pilots
were notified of the task change (and the local rules were not followed
describing how they should be notified).

The meet director and the protest committee were exemplary in their actions
regarding this issue and there were no objections to the final result. This is
the most fair action I have seen coming out of a protest committee. A committee
must use its judgment when interpreting the rules and not just see them as iron
glad commandments from on high. The major thing is to be fair. Sometimes juries
forget this.