If you're anything like me (and many of the people that read this blog probably are me) you can probably hear yourself saying the above words to family members, co-workers, teachers, people who eat dessicated coconut silently only to later throw mandarins at you during junior training camps and new players.
The biggest problem I have with referees is, they are only human and are just as liable to make mistakes in their calls as anyone else. Whether having one person with all the power making one set of mistakes on-field is preferable to having fourteen different people all making different mistakes at once remains to be seen.
Regardless of how this issue pans out over time, one thing ultimate could absorb quite happily and easily would be the video referee, for selected calls where it is possible through the magic of technology to be more or less objective. In-bounds/out of bounds calls, disputes as to whether the disc is up or down, arguments as to whether they landed with their back foot first...
Who could possibly have a problem with that?
2 comments:
It's been done before with a digital camera!
Maybe I should get them to put replays up on the big screen in Taiwan?
Keep your eyes out for "umpired" games at tournaments in the near future.
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