Ok so I have had some denials now; some using the same OTA with the same rate T&C as I got previously approved.
I actually did a one-off sucessful MR LNF against amoma.com (flex vs. flex) just to show the inconsistency, it seems like there are an unwillingness to even consider the inconsistency with MRs policy of LNF.
This has led me to believe that one of the following is true:
(1) After 1st of August LNF will adopt the "new" implementation of MR LNF, this would certainly be the 1st time a major corporation has changed a major customer facing policy in this highly unorthodox and opaque manner, but hey somebody got to be first.
(2) After 1st of August the majority of the legacy SPG teams will be made redundant, most likely senior managers already has been made redundant, that would explain the zero effort to coordinate with MR legacy teams.
(3) A major unforced error by MAR by not putting some senior managers from MR LNF into the SPG BRG teams for a short period of time, after 1st of AUG it will be a lucky draw if you get approved or not.

BTW has anybody gotten any response from the India team, I have not maybe they already got booted out ....

Also in my communications with the BRG team I did mention my successful claim with otel.com and in the replies there was not any mention of this claim along the lines....."this claim was a mistake but as a one off we approve it..." which is the usual lingo. This makes me think that scenario (2) might be a likely candidate.