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Originally Posted by DukesAZ
I have always been a little bothered by the fact that many refs/inspectors/judges are active members of FIRST teams and in many cases teams that are attending the particular regional that they are volunteering at. On several occasions, I have even seen volunteers throw on a team t-shirt and walk with a team when they win an award! How can you have any faith in their impartiality when you see stuff like that?
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There's nothing wrong with that. What kind of bias can a field attendant have? Or a Queing volunteer?
I can see your concern with regards to referees, but I don't agree with it. I'd say that in excess of 99% of the time, a referee at their own team's event does not hold any bias towards them.
As Amy said, you just have to trust people.
I refereed two events at which my former team was competing, and not once was there a conflict of interests. If there were to be a difficult call involving them, I would gladly stay out of any discussion between referees to avoid influencing anyone else, or even myself.