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Originally Posted by Dakota
If an umpire accepts a tournament assignment, he needs to either be available for the entire tournament, have his assignments in advance so he knows when to book return flights, or communicate clearly and in advance to the UIC / scheduler what is travel arrangements are. JMO.
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I agree with you on this but the nature of tournaments is that often they run behind and then that cushion of time you have given yourself untiil your flight is gone.
There was a really large tounament here in FL that used to be ASA that always ended up going behind schedule in spite of drop dead time limits.
Twice a year, there would end up being umpires scheduled for the final day who had to give back their games due to this problem.
Weather was often a problem, injuries, and waiting on the fields to be reworked all contributed to the problem.
Sometimes, it happens and a good UIC and TD can work with it.