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Originally posted by oatmealqueen
I find it really interesting reading about the different ways the playoffs are held in various states.
Do officials ever work more than one game per day during the tournament?
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Getting into this discussion kinda late, but...
Washington State has 5 classifications:
4A, 3A, 2A, A and B with 4A being the larger schools. (BTW, these are two whistle games at state, both boys and girs)
Our Association of about 80 officials usually sends 4 officials to the State Tournaments. Last year we had one official to each classification: excluding the 3A State Tournament.
16 officials are sent to each tournament in WA state. Many associations through out the state are represented at each tournament. The larger Associations (Seattle) may have 3 officials at each tournament.
It is very competitive at the tournament. An official is quaranteed 2 games...one Wednesday and one Thursday. The "ratings" come out Thursday night from the observers. Tournament officials patiently wait, as the observers tally their scores, to see if they get to continue the Tournament on Friday and/or Saturday. All 16 officials are ranked 1 through 16 by the observers. 8 officials "go home" after their second game.(8-16) 8 officials get to continue officiating in the tournament. (1-8)
Officials (1-4) get to do the "semis" and (1-2) get to do the championship game...with #3 the alternate.
We used to let the top 4 officials in our association go every year, if they wanted...but, now we voted to only allow an official to go 2 years in a row...then sitting out one year...and then eligible for another two years straight.
This gets a few more officials the oportunity to experience this great honor of officiating a state tournament. I for one think there is a fine line between a #4 official and a #6 official...so why not give #6 a shot? We had an official rated #5 for years that had to sit and watch the same 4 guys go every year...unless one of the guys wanted to give up his spot...now it is required to give it up, at least after 2 years straight.
RD