Grumble all you like, unless it's going to leave you punching the walls - one of my beefs is *exactly* that point about lack of skill in the people running the event - also, in the UK at least, a lot of the exercises seem to be cut down from various Army entrance/officer fitness stuff and to carry a large freight of unexamined assumptions about base level fitness, internal hierarchical structures and motivations which are very unsound; case in point, I was once on an exercise where (fortunately) our team leader was already an experienced and trained leader. He spotted that what were were being asked to do was dangerous in the conditions and with the level of fitness and training of the team he had, so came up with an extremely ingenious workaround which stretched the rules to breaking point but didn't snap them and then argued his point with the umpires so we got the marks. Another team tried it within the apparent confines of the exercise and ended up with a team member in hospital with a suspected cracked cervical vertabra.