Stronghold rant...

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by cj3958

Also, some people are not in the position to just "get up and grab a ref shirt", for example they may be actually competing, or have a day job.

Did you ask the refs at your events if any of them had a team competing or had a day job or had college classes to attend? I will be dumbfounded if more than 5% of FIRST Stronghold refs can say no to that question.

I am not going to say that refs are infallible, but I will say that they do a thankless job for no money, often at expense to them, and never get to hear the end of people that have never done the job trying to get them to do even better. For every match that CD gripes about, I expect there are 50 that garner no complaints[1], 98% success is pretty good for volunteers.

[1] I might try tracking this next year.