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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are defenders of this pathetic tournament continuing to say "I'm sorry you kid didn't win a trophy." Mine is winning hers today, in spite of this tournament's pitiful management by disinterested teenagers. [/quote]

Perhaps they shouldn't hold the tourny on a weekend when many other travel tournaments are occurring- orgs that that pay their refs more money. Of course you're getting bottom of the barrel at this rec tournament.[/quote]

As far as refs go, yes, there was a shortage because this weekend had the Bethesda Cup, McLean Cup, Hunt Country, and Herndon Allstar tournaments. Just not enough referees to go around. Herndon and McLean play the least. And the Herndon tournament is a grind. Games every 30 minutes. 12 minute halves. That's 24 minutes. 2 minutes to switch sides at halftime usually. That gives the referee 4 minutes in between games to get a sip of water and get the next game going. Very easy to fall behind. No time to even go to the bathroom, which was OK because where I was reffing (I guess I'm one of those bottom of the barrel refs for reffing in this tournament), it only had one overflowing portable bathroom. We ended Saturday 16 minutes behind schedule. Not too bad. As for lack of refs, I was shocked that the U19 Hunt Country final only had two referees, which means the center referee had to watch for and call offside on one half of the field by himself. Not easy to do.[/quote]

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