alosso:Nothing prevents an error in any area, including time stamp confusion.
Right, that would otherwise require perfection, which we know is not possible. However, that argument is based in speculation and assumption. No supporting evidence. I can't accept "they've made mistakes before" as the sole reason to launch an investigation. No one is innocent of not making mistakes.
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Lots of folks speculating, no one scientificating.
So instead of going back and forth about it, let's have someone start a CC tournament and find out. Only takes two people to do it. The last time I tested the posting rule it was correct as written. Go test it out yourself and come back and let us all know what you've found.
1.) Start CC Tourney
2.) Player 1 tees off.
3.) Player 2 tees of 5 min later, completes round, posts score, all pars.
4.) Player 1 completes round few mins after Player 2, posts scores, all pars.
5.) Player 2 wins.
You can try the "posting in bracket play is different than posting in stroke play" angle, but that means you would be assuming the existence of TWO different "final step tiebreakers" for scores, at which point we're kinda moving away from the realm of what's realistic here. There is no need for multiple "final step" tiebreakers when you have three(?) other card-based tiebreakers already in front of the last one.
Could there be a bug with this? Yeah, of course.
Is there one? Most likely not.