15C.2 Referees
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Borrowing from Freestyle rules on Judegs
"6C.4.1 Selecting Judges A person should not judge an event if he or she is: • A parent, child or sibling of a rider competing in the event. • An individual or team coach, manager, trainer, colleague who is member of the same club speci ed in the registration form, colleague's family etc. of a rider competing in the event. • A sponsor, part of a sponsoring organization or connected to an organization sponsoring any riders in the group to be judged. • A family member of another judge on the judging panel. If the judging pool is too limited by the above criteria, restrictions can be eliminated starting from the bottom of the list and working upward as necessary only until enough judges are available."
I think we should extend section 15C.2 to require independent referees for all elimination/placement games (refs should not be competitors in the same tournament). For pool games we should require at least 2 floor refs from different teams and if the teams are from diverse regions the refs should either be independent, from neutral regions, or mixed from the represented regions.
We should also require referee training for floor refs.
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Such rules make sense but are highly complicated to enforce in practice.
In France, the only solution would be to pay external on-foot basketball referees (and we do sometimes). Indeed, there are relatively few people able to referee a unibasketball game, and all of them are competitors (or coaches). For finals, it is even harder because just a handful of players are good enough to referee such high-speed and high-stake games, and these players are often playing in the best teams.
My point is that you are perfectly right than the refereeing is often an issue in unibasketball (conflict of interest, US/Europe different understanding of the rules/contacts, referees not knowing or enforcing the rules well enough, etc.), but it is very hard to find a good and practical solution.
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I would like to enforce this at Unicon (within a single country there can still be bias but it is less of an issue). I think hiring on-foot coaches should be an expected part of hosting a Unicon.
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I agree to both sentences (although I guess you meant "referees" rather than "coaches" in the second one).
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yes