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Originally posted by blindzebra
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Originally posted by rainmaker
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Originally posted by blindzebra
.... but any camp that you pay more than $100 to attend and it has assigners is competitive, and brand new officials will only be hurt by attending.
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That seems a little over-simplified, bz. It sounds to me as though the camp you described was not run well, and that had nothing to do with who was attending, but with the assignors. I can't see cost being as much an issue as who's in charge and what they are trying to accomplish.
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... if people are getting hired from these camps, they are competitive.
That was what I was trying to point out, brand new officials aren't going to have a great learning experience at a competitive camp.
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This is exactly what I'm disagreeing with. We have several camps around here that combine teaching and getting hired. It doesn't have to be a big deal to put those two together. In fact, at one camp I've attended several times, the assignors are LOOKING for how well a person learns. It's a teaching camp, and everyone that attends learns a lot, but assignors are also checking things out. For some people, there's an element of competition, but that doesn't take away from the learning opportunities for newbies.