# Recorded referee refusals

Refusals have no accepted-event sequence number and consume no action when rejected as illegal.

```json
[
  {
    "afterSeq": 138,
    "by": "alice",
    "kind": "command",
    "payload": {
      "action": {
        "tag": "playEvent",
        "play": {
          "event": "forecast",
          "order": [
            "Toronto",
            "Chicago",
            "Taipei",
            "Istanbul",
            "Mumbai",
            "Karachi"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "outcome": {
      "rejected": "wrong_phase",
      "message": "Must discard a card"
    }
  }
]
```

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