what concerns would you bring up to your assignor

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by MadCityRef

I am pleased to know your assignor couldn't give "two shoots" about his client (the tourney organizer) by having one ref work 5 games with the last two being the most intense. And that's the partner he could scrounge up for you. Thanks, buddy.

There's real life out there, Mad. Sometimes, assignors are real short of competent officials, especially when you're trying to fill slots in these AAU-type tournaments composed of hundreds of games. If you don't have some people work 5 games a day, then the alternative is having no officials on some of the games. You also might have to use officials that maybe you really don't want to use, but again, the alternative is no officials. And it's impossible to put all good officials together with each other because you just don't have enough "good" officials. You have some "fair" officials and you have some "poor officials. All officials bases are like that. That's why they get used in big tournaments like these. As an assignor, you also always want to partner up a "good" official with a "poor" official too, and not put two "poor" officials together.

It just ain't that easy, Mad, believe me.