[VaTerp]

Curious on the state tournament assignment process in other states, how often the same officials get assigned, and the pool of state tournament level officials.

In VA, state tournament assigments start at the quarterfinals. Generally speaking, association commissioners put forward a pool of officials with the state sanctioning body selecting officials and making assignments.

Quarterfinal crews are all from the same association, are likely selected by their commissioner, and travel to another part of the state for the assingment. Semi-finals and Finals are all played at VCU and involve mixed crews assigned by the state body.

It seems that mostly the same officials are in Richmond every year. There are always newer officials worked in but again, you see a lot of the same faces, as would be expected.

I've heard that the state body will now limit officias to 3 consecutive years of semi or finals assigments. On its face this seems like a good idea, though I do wonder about the pool of state level officials in some areas.

Curious to thoughts on this and how things are handled in other states.