Seems the Kiwis don't like being beaten by Australia in Rugby, albeit the 'sevens' format.
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What do people think of the general procedure around violations of rules or clear mistakes leading to the "wrong" results and how they are handled? For example, in this case, where (allegedly) there was a violation of the rule, resulting in potentially a different result, however the ruling says that the result will stand in spite of other disciplinary action to be taken?
I remember when I was a debating adjudicator for high school debates, we had a rule book for conduct of short preparation debates (i.e. a debate where, instead of getting the topic more than a week in advance, they get it one hour before the debate and they are locked in a room to prepare for the debate there, with only a dictionary, thesaurus and book of quotes).
I remember there was a rule there that said if a team, during a short preparation debate, was found to be cheating (e.g. snuck in some outside help, used a computer, etc.), the debate was to continue as normal and the result to stand as is. There would be no difference in the result of the debate, though the disciplinary action resulting from an incident of the cheating wasn't made clear in the rules.
In other cases, e.g. the NRL, when one team fielded too many players for one game, all of the points which they won were cancelled, viz. the opposite of letting the result stand.