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Look I spent Friday/Saturday/Sunday putting up then tearing down one of the most complex fields I have seen since 1996 with a group of seriously committed people. Then spent from Friday at 4PM till Sunday at 7:30PM starting each day at 7:00AM as CSA at Mount Olive.

You barely saw me on the field. I watched 2 matches.
The other CSA walked till his feet were killing him and I worked until my back was in full on spasm and I had to take serious painkillers because the show must go on.

I do not know what happened at other events but I can tell you: all of that and I am still sympathetic to the issues of the teams that came to play a game despite their own hardships some of which a few bad referee calls make look trivial (doubt most teams had their cars catch fire on the way to this event).

Sorry you feel slighted. You'd get more sympathy from me and others if you: mentored for a team then did multiple volunteer roles (3 so far for me between FLL, FTC and FRC). This is not cheap or easy to do for anyone. We all do the hard thing and for the best reason.

I hope you get perfect calls at every event you attend but I would not volunteer to referee specifically because you can get eaten alive as you blast through 80+ 10 minute games in a relentless cycle on a field with 6 robots going every which way. I know why referees burn out. Maybe the pain would less if there were more help to referee as apposed to a forum full of people to heckle their every slight. I am not saying not to protest: even FRC11 had a few questions at Mount Olive, but everyone please remember GP.