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Time vs. Liability. At the Frozen Penguin, I designed a stage where the shooter wore snow shoes. There was some discussion as to the wisdom of this scenario (to put it politely). But in that discussion, I think I was able to make the point that were we to follow good sense, we would not be shooting in the winter, in the cold, in the snow, etc. etc. and from a different perspective, there are those who feel that things we commonly do such as drawing from a holster, shooting on the move, etc. are also absurdly dangerous. I'm sure we all know of ranges where you are only allowed to shoot slow fire, gun and ammo on a loading bench, ammo must be purchased from range, etc. and the reason given is always liability. If I was to worry about liability, instead of barbecued ribs and kielbasa, our match dinner would have consisted of bottled water and prepackaged cheese crackers. Yum-o! But the real point I am trying to make is that if you want to run a major match with out doing some of the procedures such as loading the line and hot bays, then you have to either take more time, which some venues do, or make other concessions to match flow such as dumbing down the stages and getting rid of props that require reset time or lowering the round count or just reducing the number of shooters served. These are some of the compromises that the people who organize matches have to make knowing that shooters pretty much want to have it both ways and any mistake will be Monday morning quarterbacked. And some people wonder why Match Directors, SOs and the staff burn out?