08 Colorado Controversy

[PrincessJae]

Being a rookie team, and attending San Diego and Colorado i felt that my first experience between the regionals were very different. Besides San Diego being more fast paced and louder, the referees were very open to any challenges of their calls. They changed the score on one of my teams matches because they thought that knocking off an opponents ball from the overpass with your own ball was illegal. In which after they announced about 3 times to everyone.

In colorado, in the opening ceromonies when introducing the refs they announced that all of their calls were final and there would be no rematches played. In san diego one match was replayed 3 times. I also noticed that in san diego the challenge box was clearly labeled. In colorado it was a box with a question mark in it. we had some questions the first day about timeouts and brought it to the judge and he seemed to have no idea about them.