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The idea is to only book stuff in the same day, that you are sure you're going to use, because otherwise you could book places that other racers might have been able to use and thereby deprive them of services which is clearly unfair. Eg. if a rider wanted to be a dick, they could find strategic towns and book everything up in advance to put the competitors out. In practice it only happens to a few rooms but it's still depriving other racers of potential accomm. options.
hippy
It was more about getting clarification rather than calling people out. I think it’s better that it’s against the rules, otherwise people could just post energy bars, recovery powder and clean bibs to every checkpoint.
I seem to remember @hippy making a solid argument for why it’s not ok to book accommodation in advance but can’t seem to find it. Can you remind me?