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Originally Posted by MCBear
The umpire's responsibility goes from attack line to attack line. You are responsible for net violations, center line violations, substitutions, time-outs, alignment of the receiving team at the moment of serve, back-row attack, back-row block, antenna violations on the table side, supervising the score table (personnel as well as doing their jobs properly) and supervising bench behavior.
As Tim indicated, the umpire usually signals discreetly to the referee on a back-row attack or block. However, if, as Umpire, you are absolutely sure that a back-row attack or block has occurred, you can whistle and signal it if your partner doesn't.
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And if I was R I would want you to call it. I worked one night with a tremendous official...best I've ever worked with. She tried to give me a discreet signal for BA but I was too dense to figure out what she was doing. I'd want her to call what I miss.
NOW, having said that I've also worked with some U's that were
way too whistle happy and called a lot of things they shouldn't have because they were not watching their primary area and walking all over mine. If the U wants to run the entire court then we'll need to have a talk.