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Re: Call Inconsistencies Between Regionals

How about getting mentors who are not participating in the regionals call the game? We know the rules backwards and forward, so do the kids. I was extremely disappointed at SVR when our team captain came back after standing the "ref's box" during the finals and told me some lady from the back in a FIRST shirt came up to him and told him to "stop complaining and get on with it" before he had even had a ref come up to him to see what he had to say. Looking at the rules this year I think we all knew it was going to be a bad year for calls. There was too much subjectivity and obscurity in them.
What happened to us in the finals during the third match however was not subjective when a track ball supported by an opponent was not counted. Blatant mistakes and lack of knowledge for general rules has no excuse.