This tournament was a tough decision for me, and will add to this post as time goes on.At the last minute I decided to take a day of vacation from work and make the 8 hour drive to Pittsburgh for the East Coast u19 Challenge...all star teams from all the local area unions up the east coast.
I had never been yelled at more before in my whole career refereeing. It was absolutely appalling to me, but when you referee higher levels you are expected to be perfect.
I could write and write about errors I made, especially I have videos of two of my games thanks to bill burch http://www.lineoutvideo.com/.
I had tried to apply many of the NERFU tourney evaluator's tips, but my only resolution to that is I was not ready to. I was stressed out about missing work and attending this tournament at such short notice, It all affected me and I just dont feel like I refereed well....as I already said...especially after seeing the video.
Looking back on the games I had some just plain wrong calls. I never had a win/loss effect on a game, but I really question some of my 50/50 gray area calls. If there's anything to take away from this tournament I think it is to establish my standard firmly from the start in non-consequential positions (feed, bridging v. collapse, foot up, etc.). It's not a fond memory of the weekend.
Despite my perceived poor performances, the tournament assignors gave me a great game on Sunday, the u-17 final, MetNY v. N Ohio. I had ARs for this game but for w/e reason I defended all of my decisions when they were really giving me good advice from the sidelines...I was just stubborn and insecure of my performances over the weekend.
Enough trashing myself, it was a very valuable experience and a great test. I know where my mistakes were, and know what I want to work on. I met some great referees and made some great new friends, I will see them all at saranac very soon.
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