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Telstra outage causes chaos for State of Origin as NRL has to scramble to find a fix

A massive Telstra outage has caused chaos ahead of the State of Origin decider at SunCorp stadium.

There had been initial fears that the game would have to go ahead without the use of video review.

But a solution has now been offered with the bunker operating out of television truck in Brisbane.

The bunker is the centralised facility in Sydney, watching replays on many different camera angles and reporting to the referees.

The Telstra outage had caused havoc and left Sydney unable to make contact with officials inside the stadium.

Initially it had been suggested that the game would go ahead without the video review sysem.

But after a bit of a panic, they finally found a solution to their problem by moving the bunker away from Sydney.

That change also resulted in a change of match officials with ABC reporting that Gerard Sutton and Jared Maxwell have been drafted in for Bunker duty. 

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