Let's hear it for the Refs !

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Originally Posted by Madison

Do you believe you were able to convey this information to people who could make a difference? Was your feedback acknowledged or acted upon?

Nobody has ever asked me that!

I'm lucky enough that volunteering for FIRST is a family affair (mom is head ref, dad is scorekeeper), so we talk openly about many, many things. One of which was that we felt that there would not be enough refs on the field to make reffing easier. (We've said the same thing for other games during other years as well). My family agrees with me, but we've all been doing this long enough that we just do our best to know the rules and make as few bad calls as possible.

There have been a few times throughout our volunteer history where my head ref would throw her hands up and say "I'm doing it this way because it will give the teams a better experience."

I don't believe refs who aren't head refs have a decent avenue to give feedback to FIRST and the GDC on their experience (what was hard, easy, what was not fun, what they would suggest changes for, etc).

In short - no my feedback isn't acknowledged and no, nothing is acted upon.