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Originally Posted by john5396
Normal coverage is first referee watches serving team and second referee watches receiving team. SO illegal alignment on the serving team is definitly a call the first referee will make, although if the second referee identifies an alignment fault on the serving team, they can and will call it.
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The R2 can make this call, but they better be 100% sure it is an alignment issue. If the R2 was wrong, it is not his call to make on the serving team.
I had a call like this as R2 a couple of years ago where S2 was off of the court at the net on serve, I whistled the alignment issue and set the serving team's coach into a raging fit. The coach tried to argue that I could not have seen the fault if I was looking at the receiving team, but I responded that I could see the offending player through my peripheral vision. The offending player was about 2 feet off of the court.