I am all for having an organized judge and jury system for relatively major events. The problem is, that on too many occasions, our judge and jury system doesn't work. If frivolous protests would regularly get tossed out of the protest room on their butts, these non-sportsman like things would happen less often. The problem is that stupid protests actually win and THAT is what leads to more racing in the protest room. In the relatively few years I've been sailing, I've seen some real B.S. at many different judicial levels of the sport and organization.

How do you fix it? I'm not really sure....but having an informal, last minute, and possibly untrained protest committee is not the answer (I'm not targeting this event in particular). Having judgments come out that are wrong will make things worse as people see what they can accomplish within that system or feel that they need to step up their game to match those with less sportsmanship. Finding a way to swing more judgments toward caution might help - but again, not sure how you go about that.