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Originally Posted by synth3tk
As a volunteer from this year's event, I will pass on some of the remarks. However, I hope that you all will contact the coordinator yourselves to voice your opinions. I'm extremely sorry that some of you have had bad experiences, but I hope that you will try to make the event better instead of simply leaving. That will only hurt the program. It's breaking my heart to see so many teams vowing to never attend the regional over one person.
Regarding the early queuing, I apologize. Pit admin has no control over when to queue people. We're given a list of matches and we call it out. We worked with the queuing volunteers to slow it down eventually.
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Don't worry about it, it wasn't a major problem. Pit Admin was one of the bright parts of the event to me, you guys were always friendly and willing to help. In fact, synth3tk, I think I remember you in particular coming over to our pit and being really concerned about us not being queued for a match that we were late to and thinking it was really nice that you were doing that.
As for the Head Ref being bad, it certainly seems to be agreed upon in this thread. The thing is, if any other volunteer were not friendly, it would not have had a huge effect on the event. However, the Head Referee is the "ultimate source of authority in the arena". It isn't really the fault of the Buckeye regional but FIRST for choosing to train him as a Head Ref and giving him that power.