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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
The farthest I've ever traveled to work games is from Portland to Seattle. This was about 15 years ago. A guy I used to work kids tournaments for asked me if I would go up there for a weekend and work 4 games on a Saturday and 4 on a Sunday, including the championship game which started at 8:00 pm. There were boys MS teams from Oregon, Idaho and Washington in the tournament and also two teams from Vancouver, BC. He paid me mileage, room and food plus $150 for doing this, which came to almost $20 per game which wasn't bad back then. It was in early December and was kind of a season "kick-off" tourney.
I went and had a lot of fun. It was held at a high school just outside Seattle and I stayed at a pretty nice motel. I was one of three officials who came up from Oregon to work this. The idea was to have a "balance" of officials representing the various areas of participation.
I don't remember much else about it except that the Canadian team that I had in one of my games had quite a few rules questions. Also, I remember the fans being really well behaved.
The following year, I worked two tournaments for him on the Oregon coast. I miss those days.
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The Cdn teams in that area play FIBA, so Fed is new to them.
As of right now, Ontario high schools are the only user groups that still play Fed. I wish they'd bail on Fed too and go to FIBA like everyone else.