Playoffs/Championships

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In BC, Canada:

There is only one officials' association who holds the contract for provincial highschool ball (we play federation ball for highschool by the way).

We had a new process this year.

We have a pretty big geographical region so we have local game allocators who select the crews to cover games for the three distinct regions. The local allocators make reccomendations to an 'education committee' comprised of retired field officials who are actively assessing and observing officials throughout the year.

The education committee selects crews from the reccomendations for the first round of playoffs based on geography and a few other factors - probably at least some political reasons. Everything from the quarter-finals and up is played in the same venue and all the 'educators' are present. The games are all taped so based on some combination of their impressions from the game and review of the tapes, the committee meets on Monday nights (tonight they pick the crews for the JV, AA, and AAA finals in BC Place ... wish me luck!) to decide who gets moves on to the next round based on their performance in the prior week.

That's it.

[Edited by cdnRef on Nov 29th, 2004 at 04:56 PM]