tournament selection

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser

"Best" officials? How about qualified officials? "Best" is such a subjective term.

Is not "qualified" subjective as well? Depending on what you consider the qualifications, that can eliminate people and put people on the list.

I would like to add, doing the State Finals in my state does not mean the Championship game. In basketball (and other sports), usually that means the Quarterfinals at least. There is not quarantee that an official will do the Championship game if they are going to "State" as an official. That means that the teams have at least 3 games to play if they are to win in all or play for 3rd place. An official I think is only guaranteed one game (to my the best of my knowledge). The Championship weekend is held for each class and gender at one time. So if someone does the Class AA State Finals, they will work on Friday. And if they do well, they can get the Semi-Finals and Championship game (or even 3rd place game) on Saturday. So when you are considered a State Final official, that means you go to Peoria for the Boy's and Bloomington for the Girls. But how many games you do, is up to the folks that make those decisions. And doing one of those games is considered a trip. So it is very possible that you are a State Final official and never do the Final game.

Peace