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Unread 16-03-2008, 15:44
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Re: Call Inconsistencies Between Regionals

To add to Paul's excellent suggestions:

1. Have some policy in the event of a blown call. What do you do if a penalty was tallied wrong? An object was scored incorrectly, based on an incorrect interpretation of the rules? Does this policy change if the correction is after the first match of qualifications, part way through qualifications, during eliminations, or affecting the third match of the finals?

2. Make the policy from item number 1 available for the teams to read. The teams would very much appreciate knowing what would happen in the event of a referee mistake.

3. Simplify the rules? I really don't know about this one, but it seems that the rules this year are either too complicated, or that the referee training course needs to be more thourough. We went to speak to the referees about rules and scoring inconsistencies with the manual twice in SVR before the pivotal finals match 3, and in each time, the referees changed something they were doing. I have seem most of those referees before; I do not think there were many rookies. However, something is not right when you can reach the last match of the competition before catching a blatant ruling mistake.

I just hope that what happened during the finals at SVR never happens again.

-Guy Davidson
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