illegal alignment

[kayla vb]

Originally Posted by pavbref

The R2 can make this call, but they better be 100% sure it is an alignment issue. If the R2 was wrong, it is not his call to make on the serving team.

I had a call like this as R2 a couple of years ago where S2 was off of the court at the net on serve, I whistled the alignment issue and set the serving team's coach into a raging fit. The coach tried to argue that I could not have seen the fault if I was looking at the receiving team, but I responded that I could see the offending player through my peripheral vision. The offending player was about 2 feet off of the court.

This is incorrect. If the coach had filed a protest instead of throwing a fit, he would've won (under USAV rules). I've seen a protest filed, and won, on this exact call.

To the OP, the R1 can essentially make any call he wants to make. He can make illegal alignment calls on either team. However, the R2 may ONLY whistle the receiving team for illegal alignment.