Anybody get refereeing dreams?

[Mauler]

Head Referee:

"Gang, we have a fun & exciting day ahead of us. We will be starting off with Y-10 Women's Foil, which at this time, has 134 entries. Furthermore, Local Organizing Committee has decided to prolong walk-in registration by 3 hours in order to accomodate 43 more fencers travelling, as we speak, from NY."

"As you are all aware, little mishap yesterday caused by USA Volleyball has left us with only 12 functioning strips. So it's up to us to make this happen, team! I'll be counting on every one of you to somehow turn stone into water."

"On a good note, we have been given a little break. Those of you scheduled to fly out on the 10 pm flight would be happy to know that, since the flight has been severely overbooked, I took the liberty of rebooking you for a later flight. This way, we won't have the pressure of having to finish this monster in time."

"If you've indicated that you'd like to be observed for rating upgrade, there will be examiners floating around. Any and all mistakes you make throughout the day will be noted and will result in loss of your rating. Thank you for your wonderful work, as always."

"And this year, we are at the tip of a spear in pre-Youth development! Starting at 5, 6 and 7 pm, respectively, we have wonderfully fabulous, 6-weapon events in pY-8, pY-6 and PeeWee-4 categories! Remember, they love cards!"

"Oh, and one last thing. Some of you haven't sent in your refereeing payment yet. Not naming anyone here, but please do be kind enough to drop your check in the payment box on the way out."

[Meteoric Iron]

"Any questions?.... Oh, yes, lunch and drinks.....ummm....yeah...there must be a place around here we can get something for you. I'll get back to you about that later..."

[mgriff]

Or the BC version:

"No, I'm sorry, we don't have that many ROW referees--you'll have to quintuple-flight the saber."

[Fencergrl]

Oh... baby I dream of refs all the time.

[qatet]

One of the few I've ever had was a real peach.

I was at SN, reffing 60+ ME. For some reason, there were only 9 entrants, so we were running it on one strip. I was the only ref. After a _number_ of bouts had gone by I realized that I might get a better view if I weren't standing _on_ the strip. I slowly worked my way out of similar problems like that. Then, with one bout to go, I realized that someone had walked off with the score sheet. We tried our best to recreate the scores, but it was a disaster. The rest of the dream revolved around trying to recreate the score sheet and it was long an tedious.

Ever since then, I have been _utterly_ paranoid about what I do with the score sheet!

[erik_blank]

Strange that this thread showed up today.. I didn't realize it until I read this topic, but I had a distinctly ref based dream last night... it centered around just not seeing the actions at all and having to throw out 5 consecutive 1 light actions because I just couldn't see what happened.... for some reason, the fencers didn't object, but I was getting increasingly embarrased... *sigh*

[peet]

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All my refereeing nightmares happen in real life....



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[Katman]

I had a nightmare about refereeing after having a nightmare day of refereeing, including having two parents of a world class fencer tear me a new asshole for some newbie mistakes I made at one of my first tournaments as a ref (a small, local one to boot).

Nothing else I've ever done in my life ever gave me nightmares before. This, along with other factors, helped me decide to stop reffing. :P

[catwood1]

Oddly enough, fencing tends to stay out of my dreams. I guess I spend enough time with it in real life my subconscious is sick of it.

[counter riposte]

It's when those dreams really do come true, which sadly is starting to become more and more often.

IE:

Having the venue split into three different rooms to accomodate different events (Tucson and Colorado Springs)

Having the FOC angry at you for taking too long at pools, then reporting late from lunch. (Colorado Springs)

Being told your concept of ROW sucks and that you need to be reborn.

Being the last in from a table, only to be told there's no more lunch left (Atlanta)

Failing to get paid for events (NAC B, NAC C, Need I go on?)