Appeals Committee. Disputed situations in tournaments.

That’s how our politicians talk.

This is called jurisprudence. From a common-sense perspective, it contains quite a lot of nonsense, but courts make decisions in this way.

The rules state specifically - on the day of discovering the absence of a road to the central treasury, report it!

Now, let's read the wording:

- Restarts at the player's request,
a) if there is no road to the passage leading to the central treasury;
b) if there is no continuous road leading from the starting castle to the central treasury through the starting zone.

In this case, on turn 112, it became clear that point A had occurred, but since the restart is "at the player's request," there is no need to rush; you can play a little longer and then take a restart according to point B. Sometimes, there are generations where a player has 2 roads to the center...

Yes, I understand that this is a flaw in the rules, but the letter of the law is exactly like this in this place...