According to the USAT and WTF Competition Rules, no mention is made under the Article 10 "Procedure of Contest" that a referee must verbally announce "Chung-Seung" or "Hong-Seung". For each prior procedure, a verbal command is included (Cha-Ryeot, Kyeong-Rye, Joon-Bi, Shi-Jak, and Keu-Man).
Is it personal preference to verbally announce the winner or is it a typo since the hand signals printed later seem to imply that declaring the winner also involves verbally announcing the winning contestant.
I cannot take full credit for thinking up this question, it was brought up by one of our Alaskan referees at our most recent referee class.
Thank you for yet another perscription. I too agree that the referee hand signals offer further explanation, not a differing opinion, on exactly how to declare the winner. The only problem remaining is the apparent typo in Article 10 by not including the appropriate verbal command with the end of match procedure. I could see leaving the article alone if none of the other commands made mention of the corresponding verbal command for each action. This just helps add the likelihood of misinterpretation and inconsistency from referee to referee.
Any chance of the article being rewritten, or will it likely become one of the extra footnotes mentioned in seminars, similar to explaining the inaccuracy of the diagram for permitted/legal scoring area in Article 11.2?