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[Backjudge7]

Ed, I work in Ohio and the coaches are required by the state to vote for a minumum of 5 officials at each position. (5 man) The state is broken down by region so you are in competion with only the officials in your region by position. THis year if you recieved 8 votes in my region you made the "pool". The top vote getters in the poolgot the alloted games.
THis system is flawed in my opinion because there are officials politicing coaches for games, coaches "block voting" for officials in the old scratch my back I'll scratch yours, and officials writing letters to coaches . I know of one official who worked 10 regular season games and yet got 31 votes. He only worked for 20 coaches...
All this is screwy, but the real problem is that the officials getting the games often times are NOT the best guys out there. And some critical bad calls in the state finals the last few years proves that.
Personally...I feel that crews should advance together since they work together all year and how each other work and cover and the like. State finals is no time to throw 5 strangers together in my opinion. But ..thats just my opinion for whatever thats worth!!