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Originally posted by Sean_330
Recently, i was the head ref at the preseason competetion of the SCRRF.
I noticed that even at this early point in the season, there was a distinct lack of gracious professionalsim among certain teams there. For one thing, a certain team gave me grief as the ref over a decision i made and would not drop it and kept harassing me about it.
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We are the team that you are referring to here, and I want to assure you that until today I was not aware that after we initially approached you with the Team Update, that several rather excitable members of our team (and one excitable parent) had also come up to you on several occasions about the same matter. I was also not aware that after your final ruling, these same team members approached you yet again. These people have since received a firm talking to, and rules have been set regarding who is and is not allowed to talk to officials, and under what circumstances. We should've had these rules in place going into the scrimmage, but as a rookie team, it didn't occur to us.
It is my fault for not making sure that everyone on the team understood the spirit of the competition -- many of them still see it like BattleBots -- and we will take whatever measures are necessary to make sure that those who are not willing to accept the philosophy of gracious professionalism are kept where they cannot cause any trouble. I appologise on our team's behalf, and assure you that this inexcusable breach in professionalism has been fixed.