Instant replay review is now a part of the Hawaii high school state football tournament.

A proposal for it to be introduced into the 2019 tournament passed unanimously Thursday through the general assembly of the Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association at its annual legislative meeting at the Kauai Marriott Resort.

The actual format for replay, which will only be used at televised tournament games at Aloha Stadium, will be set by the Hawaii High School Athletic Association’s football committee in conjunction with Matt Sumstine, the HHSAA’s coordinator of officials.

The final vote was 91-0.

That legislative item was subsequently brought to the HHSAA executive board and received final approval Thursday evening.

Due to two other proposals making it through HIADA (by votes of 51-40) and the HHSAA board, football state tournament representation by league is going to be tweaked.

Only one of those two measures, however, will come to fruition, and the most likely of those will happen when the Kauai Interscholastic Federation makes official what executive director Jon Kobayashi confirmed is its intention — a declaration of its teams to compete in Division II.

When that declaration becomes official, the legislation gives the go-ahead to add a fifth team (OIA second place) into the D-I tournament. A year ago, there were only four D-I state qualifiers. D-II would likely go down to five teams (two from the OIA and one each from the KIF, BIIF and MIL) from six due to the loss of an ILH representative because the private-school league only has one team (Pac-Five) competing at that level and an HHSAA rule stipulates that a league needs at least two teams to be eligible for a state berth.

So, in simple terms, the 2019 state tournament is likely to have four teams in the Open Division and five in D-I and D-II. A year ago, the breakdown was 4-4-6.

In the unlikely event that the KIF decides to go the D-I route, there would be six teams (two from the OIA and one each from the four other leagues) in D-I and four teams in D-II (two from the OIA and one each from the BIIF and MIL).

In divisions with five teams (something new for the HHSAA), there will be four seeded teams, with the fourth-seeded team facing the unseeded team in the first round prior to the semifinals.

A separate item that passed 50-40-1 at HIADA and then received approval by the HHSAA board exempts the D-I football tournament from normal HHSAA seeding procedures. A league with only two representatives in a particular division (such as ‘Iolani and Damien in ILH D-I) will now be able to have a seeded team, unlike in the past, when a league needed three representatives to get a seed. This will actually guarantee that ILH D-I gets a seeded team and that the OIA’s second-place team (the only non-champion) will be the unseeded entry.

In two other notable moves making it through HIADA (90-1 and 80-11) and the HHSAA board:

>> Timing for state tournament soccer matches at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium will be officially kept on the scoreboard clock, with periods running down to 0:00. In the past, the head referee kept the official time, while the scoreboard displayed unofficial time from the start of a period until the two-minute mark.

>> Track and field state championships will no longer have qualifying standards. Instead, the top 24 athletes and four alternates in each event (based on times and distances throughout the season) will qualify for states.