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Originally Posted by cj3958
What I am trying to say is in its current state, there can be no constructive criticism of referees as a whole on CD recently and this is a problem.
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I was a first year ref this year, and at the event I reffed at, my former team (2410) and my cousin's team (2335) competed at. I'm also a student at Missouri S&T, and studied the manual more in depth this year than my other college years.
That being said, for the record, EricH was calling out the other poster because his "constructive criticism" was simply "Reffing sucked this year."
Many times this year, and other years, when someone has a gripe about the Referees, is is not constructive criticism. It simply calling out the refs on doing a terrible job, and it really does scare off new refs. I'm contemplating becoming a regular ref, schedule allowing, but sometimes the threads on CD make me contemplate the decision, and I'm sure others choose not to ref because of the public callouts.