Today in an interview we were asked the question, “Did you turn in a notebook?”
“Did you turn in a notebook?”
My coach had the perfect analogy. She said that it was like interviewing someone for a job without seeing their resume. This was at a tournament just 25 minutes away from Greenville, the home of the REC.
Important part: I don’t think that the fault is in the hands of the people at the event. They do a great job each and every time.
Event partners put in tireless work to put events together, and yet some can’t do everything on their own. I am not a coach so I have no idea have how Event Partners interact with EEMs and TEMs. No clue. If someone I know saw that I was poking my nose into this subject they would be shocked.
But here is what I do know.
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There are events where judging is totally botched. If you want proof, ask me about when the announcer at a tournament said, “If you didn’t get a chance to interview, come see us.” Or when the same team got excellence and design. Or the example given above.
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There are also events where the volunteers aren’t qualified. I’m sure most of us who are reading this have had this happen to them, or at least read about them on the forum.
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Early in the season, some refs plain don’t know the rules.
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All of this is at the expense of the competitors.
So, I have some questions.
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If a tournament needs qualified referees and judge advisors, especially if their original one drops out, do they recieve help from the RECF? If not, can they?
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Especially if the answer to the above question is yes, can they enforce all events to have approved refs and judge advisors?
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Is it possible to send a low level employee of the RECF to tournaments to make sure everything is done properly?
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Or are there just too many tournaments going on for this to actually be feasible within reason?
This post is made with all due respect and no negativity. Please tell me quickly if there are any factual inaccuracies.