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Re: Improving Officiating at FIRST Events

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post

This referee test was supposed to help make things more consistent. In order to make the process as transparent as possible, why not release it to the public? It would show a lot of goodwill on FIRST's part, and unless the test is just a formality, and not really effective, alleviate some concern that FIRST is not adequately preparing the referees.

maybe i was lucky. At VCU the head ref spent 30 minutes defining rules for my team. We asked her what-ifs and she gave us as much info as possible. When we had some questions about potential strategies that she did not know the answer to, she had them for us within an hour. After that interaction i do not have concerns that FIRST isn't prepping the refs well enough. i know, i know, I'm stereotyping the refs after one interaction and/or one regional.

FIRST has made the initial attempt to help solve the ref problem. I think they will collect the data from this year and see what changes that need to make.

Here are my questions: how many requirements can you put on a volunteer before it's too much of a burden? When is too much too much? Where will we be if we cross that line and we do not have such wonderful people around to help us play a game?

I truly feel the answer to this is with the GDC and the level of complexity of the game.
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