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2 hour association meeting/state clinic, 6-2 hour local clinics, and 3-live scrimmages. That's about 20 hours, and standard around here. Veterans and new umpires (1-2 years) attend scrimmages. The new umpires work the games and the veterans generally give advice in a structured manner, ie a veteran leader assigned for each game to document participation, coordinate umpire rotation from plate to base, etc. Verterans may only get an inning or half inning of work due to new umpires getting most of the time, as it should be. When 6 umpires are assigned to a scrimmage and 3 of them are new, they get most of the work.