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Proposal 79: Complete rewrite of Section 15C.2 about referees / game officials [ Revision 1 ]

Committee: 15. Basketball
Submitted on 2025-07-17
Status: Passed on August 03, 2025

Background

The section about game referees was small. Also, in many Unicons, some players were unhappy with some of the referees.

Proposal

Old rule:

15C.2 Game Referee

The Game Referees are the head officials for a game, whose primary job is to make sure the competitors follow the rules. The Game Referees make all final decisions regarding rule infractions. The Game Referees are responsible for resolving protests.

New rule:

15C.2 Game Officials

As with Rule Eight of the FIBA Rulebook, game officials shall consist of two or three referees and at least two table officials (at least the scorer and a timer/assistant scorer). Referees shall have all of the responsibilities and powers described in Articles 45, 46, and 47 except for articles covering the referees uniforms. The referees are responsible for resolving protests concerning the game.

Referees should be selected for the game based on the following criteria:

Referees should not be teammates or members of the clubs of either team (even members not playing in the tournament)
Referees should not include only players/participants from one team within the same tournament
When the tournament consists of teams from more than one region, referees should not include only players/participants from one region
Referees should not include players in the same tournament

If the referee pool is insufficient the directors may relax these restrictions starting at the bottom of the list and working upward. The directors may choose to limit the pool based on technical referee skills.

At Unicon, for all playoff games in the A tournament, experienced referees who are not playing in the A tournament and not associated with any teams in the A tournament should be used. These would typically be certified on-foot basketball referees paid via the Unicon budget. One such referee per game should also be planned for other important games preceding the playoffs (this would depend on the tournament format), allowing them to get used to the unicycle basketball particularities before the playoffs.

Body

The new section describes in more details the game officials and their role. Furthermore, it gives constraints to guide the choice of referees, and in which order to relax them when they cannot be fullfilled.

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Discussion

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Votes on this proposal:

5 out of 9 voting members have voted.

Agree: 5, Disagree: 0, Abstain: 0.