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K-Dogg Rule
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The K-Dogg rule is a guideline for Machine Dance Tournaments, that was created at the 2005 Las Vegas ITG2 Tournament in honor of Kyle Morris, who claimed that an unproved claim of a 'pad-miss' by his opponent caused his defeat in the tournament. Definition The Definition of the "K-Dogg rule" is that if a pad-miss is to be called by a player, it is to be reviewed by a group of people who witnessed the match, if the only person who saw the pad-miss was the player who called it, then it is ignored and results are collected normally. If however there is indeed a consensus that there was a pad-miss then there will either be a replay or a slight alteration to the end score to the person who had gotten a pad-miss. Pad-Miss A 'pad-miss' is when the machine fails to register a step when the player steps on the machine, this can be for several reasons *Faulty machine *Faulty pads *Machine overheating When a pad-miss occurs in non-tournament play and is for record of achievement, players will acknowledge it on the screen shot (usually with a caption below it.) Most players however don't acknowledge pad-misses and put it down to their own fault or don't even care about them. The introduction of the rule The rule was brought about because K-Dogg (Kyle Morris) was playing a match against an American player (Ruben/Ninzaburo), who claimed that he had lost the match because of a pad-miss. As the scores were extremely close (within the limits of how a pad-miss would affect a score) they accepted his claim without consultation from spectators or video proof and the match was replayed with K-Dogg losing the match and storming off the machine claiming "I WAS FOOKIN RIPPED OFF". The claim went unchecked because machine dance players of tournament skill level are capable of distinguishing between a missed step caused by their own mistake, or one that was caused by a failure in the pads. Pad-misses are a fairly common occurrence on machines with poor upkeep, and as such they have become an undesirable but expected part of machine dancing. The precedent for the K-Dogg Rule was set because it was the first time in a national tournament where a claim of a pad miss caused a replay of a match that resulted in a different outcome from the first match. As the pad-miss claim was taken only on the word of the claiming player, it is unclear if the claim was genuine or it was a case of foul play by a player that wanted a reply a match with an uncomfortably tight difference in score. The K-Dogg Rule was created to ensure that all claims of pad-miss can be demonstrated or proved regardless of score difference or player skill in the hopes of eliminating claims made to artificially cause a replay of the match. The song that the pad-miss was claimed on was 'July' on Expert difficulty, on an ITG2 dedicated cabinet. 
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