Being on a pedestal = ineffective communication?

[refnrev]

I'm trying to make sure I;m picturing this correctly. Did you call IA on the serving or receiving team. If it was on the serving team, why wasn't the U on top of it? And why were you looking that way. If it was on the receiving team the U wouldn't have been looking that way, but why did it take so long with a card or wheel? I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to understand why there was so much confusion?

[FMadera]

Originally Posted by refnrev

I'm trying to make sure I;m picturing this correctly. Did you call IA on the serving or receiving team. If it was on the serving team, why wasn't the U on top of it? And why were you looking that way. If it was on the receiving team the U wouldn't have been looking that way, but why did it take so long with a card or wheel? I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to understand why there was so much confusion?

Rev,

I think you're backward here...

U would be looking at the receiving team, not the serving team.

[Back In The Saddle]

I was the R, and was looking at the serving team. The U was watching the receiving team. And since we were using volunteers for line judges and scorekeeping, some games the best we could get was somebody to flip the numbers on the flippy-scoreboard-thing. So no actual scorekeeper that game.

My U did not use a lineup card or wheel. He only had the submitted lineup to work from. Still...how difficult can it be? The team was serving, and they didn't sub out their setters. So start with the server, back up two to the CF and see if the FR setter is supposed to be in that position. If not, it's her. If so, it's the BR setter that's out. And while checking the back row would be slightly more confusing since the libero was in the game, the libero's the only one she would be overlapped with.

As a side note, I was going to try and work some of these games without the wheel, just to see how I did. But the first game I was going to try, we didn't have a real scorekeeper. Perhaps it was caution, perhaps it was cowardice, but I didn't want to be in a position where nobody knew for sure what the current rotations were supposed to be. So I never did try without it.

[refnrev]

Originally Posted by FMadera

Rev,

I think you're backward here...

U would be looking at the receiving team, not the serving team.

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O my gosh. I cannot believe I wrote what I did! This is what happens when you try to post something when you have a meeting starting in about 5 minutes and you try to rush to get it in. I still cannot believe I posted that! Trust me I do actually know better than that. (However, I did work a MS game once with a guy who watched the wrong way the entire match... despite the fact that I was the 3rd offfical in a week that told him he was watching the wrong way! He actually called a foot fault -- which was nowhwere close to a fault -- on the serve as U.) I am really embarassed!