@Horton The answer to your question is no. But Rule 1.06 provides that where strict adherence to the rules is “infeasible, “ the CJ with approval of the appointed judges, may “make the necessary changes.” Rule 6, and for slalom 10.08 , deals with officials. If you don’t have enough rule compliant officials on site when needed, what are you to do? Complying with the rule is, in that circumstance , infeasible because you lack qualified bodies. Your choices are: 1. Stop/cancel the balance of the tournament; or 2. Under the auspices of Rule 1.06, use what you have available, note it in your report, alert the rules committee and soldier on. Again, it’s best to consult with your Region EVP. It’s hard to imagine having enough judges to vote on the exception and not enough to judge, but if you have a CJ and three appointed judges, one of the appointed judges is injured and leaves for the hospital, the CJ is up to ski, and there are no other judges on site because it’s a turn and burn and they all left after the skied 2d/ 3d round, your choice is use a non-rated judge, or use only two judges, or tell the CJ she can’t ski. None of those choices are good.
I have had to do this once, followed the procedure above, and never heard a word about it. It’s far from ideal, but that’s one of the functions served by 1.06 if you are CJ in a jam.
Another time, we couldn’t get SP to work reliably when mounted on the pylon, where the applicable rule requires it to be. We had no choice but to try alternative locations and it worked fine when mounted on the windshield. So after consulting with the EVP, that’s where we put it, and so noted in the TC report . Again, I received no push back