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Originally posted by rainmaker
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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.
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Then it is a TRAINING camp, which is what I refered to in my second post. It is great if HS assignors are teaching at a camp, but from my experience that is not the case at most camps.
I'd say it is better to find out as much as you can about a camp before any new official attends. Level of games being worked, who are the clinicians working the camp, what assignors will be attending and what level are they assigning all need to be known.