Proper administration of improper Libero replacement

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

Second issue: About 4 points later (before set point), Libero is on the floor for #24. #24 and the libero execute a proper libero exchange, at the same time there is a substitution #8 enters for #11 (right back position). The Libero then does a replacement with #11 (during the same dead ball). I catch this and issue a YUD.

Was Libero going to serve in this scenario? If so, isn't that a legal replacement? If they were the receiving team, then obviously you got it right. Just asking.

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Was Libero going to serve in this scenario? If so, isn't that a legal replacement? If they were the receiving team, then obviously you got it right. Just asking.

Now that I think about it, the replacement wasn't with 11, it was with 21, who was the third player they were trying to do replacements with, so she went into the CB, not RB position. 11 was going back to serve.


It was so messed up dealing with their libero issues, I'm still trying to figure out what they were doing.

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

Now that I think about it, the replacement wasn't with 11, it was with 21, who was the third player they were trying to do replacements with, so she went into the CB, not RB position. 11 was going back to serve.


It was so messed up dealing with their libero issues, I'm still trying to figure out what they were doing.

So I show up to an all day tourney today and low and behold, who is the first team on my court. The same team that couldn't get the libero replacements right 4 days prior. As it turned out, there was much more to the story. The libero that had so many problems was not the normal libero for the team. The normal libero was suspended for the match and wasn't with the team. the ibero that was having trouble was normally a bench player who saw action sparingly.

As a result, today the libero replacements for this team were spot on. Of all the officials involved in the event today, all the matches they played (5 total), not once did the team have any trouble with the replacements.

The head coach even came up to me during the day and said that after watching the video of the match, we did handle all of the situations correctly.

What she did not explain, and what I will never understand, is why she takes her setter out for a libero replacement, when the setter enters the left back position. She sits out while she is the left back, but is the setter for all other positions on the court. It makes no sense to me, but it makes things more confusing if they aren't getting the position correct.

[DTQ_Blue]

Does the libero go to RB (replace the opposite) when the next rotation occurs and the setter goes front row? If so, they would be using the libero to pass on the serve-recieve from the opposite's slot. The opposite's slot does not usually pass in the S-R from the back row, but there may be a reason the coach wants to leave the MH on the court in the back row rather than replace her with the libero. Can the MH kill from the back row? .