"A good CR never let's this happen"

[drh898]

In a tournament this weekend I had a veteran ref tell a younger ref that "a good CR never let's a game end in a tie". We were talking about ties in a tournament and what to do if the game ended in a tie. I was frankly amazed at this but others sitting around the tent nodded in agreement.

In my opinion, you call what you see, not what you want to happen and to make a call for or against a team in a tournament just because he doesn't want to do an OT game is wrong.

Am I naive?