All this talk about the players messing up, what about the officials?
Oh, how I love you MAYB events. Was traveling this last summer and knew an assigner running one of these and he'd asked if I'd do a few. Sure, why not? What could possibly go wrong. Sounded easy enough.
They turned a court into four courts with nothing to divide the court except table crew and players getting hit by stray balls.
Anyway, I had a game where I was the lead and the trail and the trail for another court were right next to each other. Heard a whistle so I looked up and of course my first thought was why doesn't this guy have his arm up. Bang, boom, boom, Bang right in front of me and I had to ask him for help on what happened. Had to hear it from the fans for the rest of the game.
Play was right in front of me with a great look. Only possible way to not see it was spacing out looking somewhere else.