The ruling reached Kellan while he was tightening a strap that did not need tightening.
Sera read the first page beside him. “They’ve raised the rescue cap for the remaining rounds.”
He released the buckle. “And the earlier ones?”
She turned the page instead of answering from the summary. He took the decision and read the paragraph himself.
The panel would not recalculate completed rounds. Teams had entered under a published formula and allocated time in reliance on it. A retrospective change, the ruling said, could disadvantage contestants whose choices could no longer be reconstructed fairly.
Kellan’s intervention remained scored under the old cap.
Eli read over his shoulder. “They admit it was wrong, then keep the result.”
“They say the prospective formula better reflects the extraction objective,” Sera said. “They don’t call the previous result wrong.”
