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Re: Suggestion: Referee Verification

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Originally Posted by ThreeFifths View Post
This may be a throwaway account, but I take some pride in the nuances of my mockery. The point was some people think Refs CAN BE PERFECT, but are just not doing so because, out of many reasons, one as easily remedied as being lazy.
Refs are human. Students are human. Mentors, other volunteers, teachers, parents, everyone is human. Mistakes are made.

Some of the mistakes that are made are stories that refs pass around to giggle about. "I called a foul on team #### and they came to the question box to refute the rule, but realized that they rule backed up the foul as they read it aloud to me." Those moments happen too. But as refs we try to help the student understand the rule and be confident that they know it correctly, instead of telling them they aren't doing their job well enough and need to have a ton of outside systems implemented to fix it.
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