To answer the question, are they interpreting the rule correctly the answer is no. This situation has come up before, this young lady will have actually move out of the Grant Co. school district to be eligible at her new school.
We'll disagree on that, to the fans (most) faster does mean more entertaining! And they don't want to go and watch a team take a minute to get a shot off agains a zone or hold the ball with 4 minutes left in the game and a 6-7 pt lead!
Different economic factors have hurt, 5 days instead of 4 have probably discouraged a lot of people from going because they can't stay for the whole tournament I'd say has hurt.
There's more to that though, the pitcher had to "see" the runner advancing to throw to an unoccupied base, he can't just fake to 3rd then blindly wheel and throw to second.