Proposal 110: 14.C.1 Hockey Director / 14.C.2 Board of Referees [ Revision 1 ]
Committee: 14. HockeySubmitted on 2025-07-20
Status: Set-Aside (Reviewed from July 20, 2025 to July 28, 2025)
Background
Herbie Herrmann:
I had a look into proposals at road racing and the new rules for the director and referees. Reading this it would probably a good idea to copy some rules.
Proposal
Old:
14C.1 Hockey Director / 14C.2 Board of Referees
14C.1 Hockey Director
The Hockey Director is the head organizer and administrator of hockey events. The Hockey Director is responsible for the logistics and equipment for the hockey competition. The Hockey Director is in charge of keeping events running on schedule.
14C.2 Board of Referees
14C.2.1 Members Of The Board Of Referees
The Board of Referees consists of:
• First Referee (1)
• Second Referee (2)
• Secretary (S)
• Timer (T)
New:
The Hockey Director is the head organizer and administrator of hockey events. The Hockey Director is the highest authority on everything to do with the hockey events, except for decisions on rules and results. Together with the Convention Host, the Hockey Director determines the gyms or halls, obtains permits, interfaces with the community, and determines the system used to run the event. The Hockey Director is responsible for the logistics and equipment for the hockey competition. Together with the Referees, the Hockey Director is in charge of keeping the hockey events running on schedule. The Hockey Director answers all questions and protests not pertaining to rules and refereeing. The Hockey Director is responsible for ensuring that a briefing is held with the team officials and captains before each period of the tournament, in which gyms- or hall specific aspects, in particular safety aspects, are explained.
The Hockey director must ensure that all neccessary members of the Board of Referees are on their assigned places. The Hockey Director may replace absent, incapacitated or inadequate referees with others. The Hockey Director ensures that the members of the Board of Referees do not interfere in the competition in a biased manner.
14C.2 Board of Referees
The Board of Referees is the head hockey official. The Board of Referees is responsible for enforcing the hockey rules and decides on all related questions that arise during the event. This applies in particular to the handling of protests, as well as to questions of interpretation of the rules.
Violations of the competition rules, observed by The Board of Referees or reported by players, have to be reported as protests to the Hockey Director with the following information: Position and name of the referree, identification number and name of the player, the game, as well as a clear description of the violation.
Body
Nicolai Krieger:
In my opinion, there are many detail here, where we first need to discuss where we draw the lines of the responsibilities (between director, referees, timer, and secretary). For example, I don't think the referees should be able to disqualify any player. Referees should only have the right to decide on the match in which they are referees (with the exception of a match penalty).
You write about protest, where we do not have any solution yet. So I would not include this, as this could only lead to more problems.
Ole Jaekel:
In my opinion the Hockey Director should be responsible for resolving protests which not concern the game rules. Since protests could also concern the Board of Referees in which case such protests cannot be resolved by the Board of Referees themselves.
References
This proposal refers to the discussion "14C.1 Hockey Director / 14C.2 Board of Referees - Questions on their duties"
https://iuf-rulebook-2025.committees.unicycling-software.com/discussions/184