State and/or National Tournaments

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Originally Posted by Dakota

I wasn't talking about organizational loyalty. I was talking about what the umpire does AFTER he TELLS you he is accepting a specific assignment or tournament, which was the case for the OP. If I tell the assignor that I will work his 10U rec game and then I get a call for the HS assignor to filll in for a AAA-level HS varsity game, I'll turn down the varsity game and honor the 10U commitment.

And my response was to Dave's assertion it was in the book.

Of course, it is in the book. It is probably in more than one association's book.

ASA is talking about ASA. If I'm assigning ASA championship play, I'm expecting the ASA umpire to make that a priority. I doubt quite seriously that ASA means that an umpire should forego working their game to help out the guy down the street who is fighting for the same teams and umpires that they need to hold a decent tournament.

And I doubt that USFA, AFA, NSA, PONY, U-trip, SSA, ISA, SNA, Softball Kingdom or any other softball sanctioning body really give a **** whether the competition's games are covered or not.

I would think that this "code" is more likely addressing umpires fulfilling their accepted ASA-related assignments instead of not showing or walking away because s/he doesn't like the teams, partner, location, etc.