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Officials get treated poorly by tournaments because they allow themselves to be.
People need to have enough self-respect to demand a reasonable fee for the games in the first place. Look at the entry fees that the competing teams are paying and you will quickly get a sense of how much profit the organizers are making, even considering equipment/gym/building rental.
What people must understand is that organizers approach these events purely as money-makers. They are not doing it for free or as a service to the kids. Know that every dollar that they don't pay an official goes into their own pockets.
If an official doesn't show, that is the problem of the organizer and whoever was hired to supply the officials. If they want me to work more than X number of games in a day, I simply consider it OT pay and let them know that I will require 1.5 times the normal fee for the extra contests.
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