Monday, December 3, 2007

Don't Always Trust the Refs

One of my favorite stories about proving refs wrong occurred at my team's first visit to Wildcat Paintball Park. The reason I find it so humorous is because it was our first time ever playing there and we came in strong. It was a 3 man tournament so we had two teams of 3. We split up based on familiarity with each other to optimize teamwork (as I have discussed before). The finals were determined by the top two teams from each division, and wouldn't you know it, they put us in the same division. Some fields do this in order to prevent one team from stealing a whole tournament and to optimize the number of home field teams in the finals.

The funny thing was that our A team finished 6-0 and my team, the B team, finished 5-1. We only lost to our other team so it was mathematically impossible that our teams did not finish first and second in our division. Well, the break came and we were especially relieved. We had played better than we ever had before and we had math on our side. When the scores came out, our B team was in third behind some home field team. It was laughable. I'm not saying they were trying to screw us because we were the new guys but they probably were. So my team went in and reviewed the score sheets with the refs and it turned out they counted one of our games that we earned 90 points as 10. They even had a calculator right next to them. Needless to say, when they changed the posted scores, a groan went through the crowd. So, anyway, Clocktapus says the moral of the story is "Don't argue, but don't always trust the refs".

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