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Not sure how everyone else gets their assignments but ours are made using Arbiter. You get an email informing you that you have a new game (or games), you log into Arbiter and accept or reject. If you accept, all the information about the game is there to include which position you are (R, U1 or U2), who your partners are (with all their contact info), where the game will be played (with address & phone number), who the game adminstrator is as well as who the billing official is. If a supervisor will be observing, you know who that will be as well. I love this system. It also sends you an email reminder 3-4 days prior to game day with the information in it as well.
In other words, there is no excuse for showing up at the wrong location. |
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We use Arbiter. Last night I get to my game site an hour before game time. I have the girl's JV/V. There's a guy already there starting to dress and I know both my partners are female. He claims to have the boy's JV/V at the same gym. He has no smartphone, so he asks me to log into Arbiter for him on mine. Turns out his games are this Friday, not Tuesday. He didn't appear to be a moron - people just make mistakes sometimes. On his way out, he said "no wonder none of my partners responded to my emails today". Phone calls are really the best way to make sure everyone is on the same page.
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Another example. Last Saturday I had a couple games from another chapter who uses a different assigning software than Arbiter - some home-grown thing. My crew all got an automated email on Thursday stating the time had changed for our Saturday games. No problem. On Friday I get a call from my 'R' asking me if I noticed that the site had changed as well. I say no - thank goodness she called me because I would have gone to the original site. Sure enough, at the bottom of the email there was a note saying the site changed as well. I was so thankful she called.
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I was speaking of when one of the officials shows up in the wrong location Granted if the info is wrong in Arbiter, everyone will show up at the wrong location but when everyone shows up at the right location except one official, that official has no excuse IMHO.
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One Person Games ???
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99% of one person games, here in my little corner of the Constitution State, are 3:30 p.m. middle school games, or 4:00 p.m. high school freshman games. We simply don't have enough officials available for these afternoon starting times to cover the forty-five towns, many with multiple schools, in our geographic area. We have about 300 officials on our local board, but almost all of us have day jobs.
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Or you could require explicitly 2 to start a HS game, as WI does. Good policy, IMO.
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