Okay so assuming that all the facts stated in this thread are correct, namely that
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Originally Posted by socalreff
There's a conference that has the same assignor for both sides and encourages some officials to do both if they would like.
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
And it's not "poaching" because the official obviously works both on a regular basis. Poaching connotes taking something that isn't yours, so to speak. This is clearly not the case here. It's simply two organizations making sure they both get a piece of the same official.
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...I could agree with Dan that someone may planned something so a single ref could work both tourneys, although it seems a little far-fetched to me. But that's a lot different from what AZ-REF said
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Originally Posted by AZ_REF
This year however, the women's side planned for it and assigned a Sunday site accordingly.
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..that the women's side did the planning and actually chose a site presumably based on a site that the men had already reserved.
Seems more likely that the planning that happened was that one assignor (either men's or women's) wanted to use this person, knew it was possible the other assignor would want to, and they contacted each other and planned their assignments (not the sites!) based on a win-win philosophy.