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Re: MAR Competitions

I think the snaps telling you that you volunteered yourself to be a referee aren't super productive, but as someone who is not a referee I guess I can't speak too much to it. Let's try to take a positive approach from the perspective as someone on a team.

Take the lessons learned from your experience in Week 1 and apply them the same way the GDC and its intertwined parties do. We went to a local district today to take notes on a variety of things. We were directly scouting 12 teams and tabulating things like average match turnaround for a team, potential symptoms of disconnects, number of field faults (I don't think there was ever a field fault), match cycle times, field discrepancies with regards to the team or official versions, and how referees were making calls. (I also know that I need to build up a tolerance or an escape plan for when one of those inane parody videos plays... sorry, not my scene)

We're expecting a similar crew at our event so we are taking our concerns proactively and hope to use our data to advocate for all teams at the event. Everyone needs to take an approach of "we're all in this together" or we'll inevitably rip this thing apart.
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