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RefereeRights, Duties & Case Studies
2015 - 2016
Prepared by: Andrew Wolff
November 2015
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REFEREE EVENT QUALITY - 2012
Not to be a pain in the ass, and I
know you have all seen this
before, but just a short
reminder….
“On any given day there are maybe three assholes in ski racing. Today is just
not my day to shine. Someone else has to step up.”
- Andy Wolff
ROLE OF TD
1. Supervises Event
2. Represents FIS
3. Advisor to ROC
4. Chairman of Jury
5. Appoints the Referee
6. Recommends Race to Score
7. Ensures that 1st gate is always blue in OSZ races and
red in NCD races.
ROLE OF REFEREEPart 1
1. Member of Jury
2. Supervises the draw
3. Jury Inspection (with Jury or alone)
1. (If alone, has the right to change course.)
4. Fully responsible for their section during the race
5. Confirms with Start and Finish Referee any DNS’s and DNF’s
6. Reviews and adjudicates any DSQ’s
7. Participates in all Jury meetings
8. Minutes – “The Jury approves the security, the course as set, the medical plan and
confirms the Program for the Day”
ROLE OF REFEREEPart 2
1. Member of Jury
2. Supervises the draw
3. Jury Inspection (with Jury or alone)
1. (If alone, has the right to change course.)
4. Fully responsible for their section during the race
5. Confirms with Start and Finish Referee any DNS’s and DNF’s
6. Reviews and adjudicates any DSQ’s
7. Participates in all Jury meetings
8. Minutes – “The Jury approves the security, the course as set, the medical plan and
confirms the Program for the Day”
Referee – Rights and Duties
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601.4.10 Duties and rights of the Referee
- The Referee supervises the draw.
- Inspects the course immediately after it is set, alone or accompanied by
members of the Jury.
- The Referee has the right to change the course, by removing, changing
the course by taking out or adding gates. If the Referee inspects the
course alone his decision is final. The course setter must be informed
of such changes if he was not present at this inspection.
- At the end of the first run, and again at the end of the race, the Referee
will receive the Start and Finish Referees’ reports, and any other
official reports regarding breach of rules and disqualifications.
- Checks, signs and posts the Referee’s Report on the official notice
board at the end of each run, and at the end of the race, including a list
of disqualified competitors, the gate numbers where the faults
occurred, the name of the relevant gate judge or judges, and the exact
time of the posting.
- Sends a report to the FIS should unusual circumstances arise or in the
event of a difference of opinion among the Jury members or in the case
of severe injury to a competitor.
601.4.10.1 Collaboration with the TD
The Referee and the Assistant Referee work very closely with the TD.
ROLE OF JURY
1. Monitors adherence to Rules
2. Responsible for Technical
matters
3. Unbiased and fair to all
4. Decisions on all issues not in
ICR
ROLE OF JURY
1. Monitors adherence to Rules
2. Responsible for Technical
matters
3. Unbiased and fair to all
4. Decisions on all issues not in
ICR
ROLES WITHIN A JURY
1. All Jury members have equal
responsibilities as set out in
601.4.6
2. Each has additional specific
duties and responsibilities
3. Know what they are!!!
Jury & Course Setters
Race Planning
Race Management
Race Timing & Scoring
Race Course Setting
Race Communication
Essential Equipment
Altimeter
Measuring tape
Rangefinder
Dye Pack – GS and SG
Stop watches
Radios
Shovels and rakes
Camera
Apology sheet
Chief of Race – Pre Race
Ski area
Calendar & Points Listing
Meetings / Volunteers / Assignments
Equipment
Start List
Pre Race Jury Meetings
Secretariat – Program of the Day / Entry list
Safety – Plan & medical
Radios
Grooming
Weather forecast
Medals
Schedule of the day
Secure Forerunners
Chief of Race – Race Eve
Volunteer Meetings – Duties and program
Safety Set-up
Bibs
Tickets and other admin
Communications – Area & Ski Patrol
Equipment testing
Back-up – plan and equipment
Weather forecast
Forms package
Review rules
Course setter instructions
Radio plan
Chief of Race - Instructions
Chief of Course “Lunch is during 2nd run inspection”
Chief of Gates “If the GJ’s are not in position we are
starting anyway”
Chief of Timing & Calculation “We start on time”
Secretary & Registration
Coaches “No one has a note from their doctor for a shovel
allergy”
Forerunners “ FINISH. And no, I don’t care for a report”
Jury “Stay off the radio, please”
Chief of Race – Race Day
7:00 - Control the start
7:00 – Instruct Chief of Course
7:15 – Collect Jury and inspect
7:45 – Review course with COC and make sure the start area is secure
8:10 – Relax – go for pee / grab a snack
8:25 – Coaches meeting
8:30 – Jury positioning assignments
8:35 – Check on status of timing & communications
8:40 – Review final start list
8:45 – Cycle around
9:00 – Sync timers and watch start list loaded / open – close wand
9:10 – Go to position
9:24 – Clear from bottom
9:25 – First Fore-runner
Chief of Race – Post Race
Tear down
Hang out and watch tear down
Ensure results get posted
Thank you
Technical Delegate – Pre Race
Communicate with COR
Check the Codex and Calendar
Read the rules – ICR, National, Local
Review your job duties
Review the safety set-up
Look at last year’s results
Review program
Find out where to get your lift ticket and radio
Find equipment to bring
Review the start list and compare to National Points list
Print off a forms package
Technical Delegate – Pre Race
Communicate with COR
Check the Codex and Calendar
Read the rules – ICR, National, Local
Review your job duties
Review the safety set-up
Look at last year’s results
Review program
Find out where to get your lift ticket and radio
Find equipment to bring
Review the start list and compare to National Points list
Print off a forms package
Technical Delegate – Race Morning
Meet the COR
Talk with the course setter
Meet the Jury
Follow the set
Review safety and set
Meet with the Jury to “Approve program. Approve Safety. Open the Course for inspection.”
Coaches’ meeting
Meet with Timer and confirm timing and scoring is working
Open and close the wand
Determine when Sync will take place
Review volunteer numbers with COR
Confirm course maintenance strategy
Confirm radio protocol – clear and start stop
Meet with finish referee and start referee
Cycle
Take position
Clear the course
Technical Delegate Post-Race
Referee’s Report
Results
Scoring
Upload
Reports
Referee – Pre Race
Communicate with COR and TD
Read the rules – ICR, National, Local
Review your job duties
Confirm the correct list is used
Enquire from home hill coach condition of piste
Review program for the day
Find out where to get your lift ticket and radio
Find equipment to bring (drill, key, pencil)
Print off a Referee’s report
Referee– Race Morning
Talk with the course setter
Meet the Jury
Follow the set
Review safety and set
Check snow density and depth
Meet with the Jury to “Approve program. Approve Safety. Open the Course for inspection.”
Coaches’ meeting
Review volunteer numbers with COR (particularly gate judges and course workers
Confirm course maintenance strategy
Confirm radio protocol – clear and start stop
Cycle
Take jury position
Give and ask for clear slipping instructions in your section
Track athletes through your section and confirm “Abandoned and will not finish.”
Review and prepare Referee’s Report
Confirm any possibly contentious DSQ’s with athlete’s coach
Time stamp and post report.
Race Quality TD’s
Know your duties
Know your rules
Don’t make up any rules unless you have to
You are not the COR
Be fast but not furious
Stay off the radio
Get your reports done and submitted
Race Quality - CORs
Know your duties
Plan your race
Stick to it
All those people work for you and you better
know what they are doing because they are
better at it than you are
Stay off the radio (The Fred Goodwin Rule)
Race Quality - Referee
Know your duties
Know your rights
Know your rules
Ensure the course setter is competent then let them work
If the Jury starts to yap at the course set that is not about safety
– put an end to it.
It is not your set, so unless there is a real problem wait your
turn to set.
Pay attention to your section and to your radio.
Be professional or the TD will not select you ever again.
Race Quality – Coaches
Coaches meeting
“Hi, I’m the Chief of Race. Any questions?”
Schedule for the day
Inspections
Rules
Volunteers
Athlete management
Tear down
Results
Race Quality - Referees
Know your rights, duties and rules
Talk to TD and COR during the week
Be there early and get a radio
Bring your drill, screw tool and ICR
Communicate with Jury and other coaches
Communicate with the Chief of GatesUse time effectively. Be mobile and use your radio.
Do your report correctly – follow the audit trail
Always stand equal in jury meetings
Be professional – you are the only paid Jury member
Race Quality – Course Setters
Know the job
Know the rules
Communicate with Jury
Come prepared
Know the day schedule
Set for the athlete
Set to the safety
Bring friends
Set fast
Be decisive
Jury Positions
Referee gets 1st pick to go to coaches corner. If big
team then they are treated like any other jury
member.
COR – two spots – near the start or big trouble spot.
TD – Four spots - put him in a harmless spot to limit
damage, trouble spot, coaches corner, in the sun and
out of the wind.
Jury Advisors must be available to step in.
Race Quality – Course Setters
603.7 Duties of the Course Setter
603.7.1 In order to set the course appropriately, respecting the terrain, the snow
cover and the ability of the participating competitors, the course setter
conducts a pre-inspection of the race terrain in the presence of the TD,
the Referee, the Chief of Race, and the chief of course.
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603.7.2 The course setter sets the race course respecting the existing safety
measures and course preparation. The course setter must take speed
control into consideration.
603.7.3 All courses must be set according to the ICR
603.7.4 The courses must be set and ready in time, so that the competitors are
not disturbed during course inspection.
603.7.5 The course setters should take care that the difference between the
winning times of each run of Slalom and Giant Slalom will not be too
great.
603.7.6 The course setting is a task of the course setter alone. He is responsible
for adhering to the rules of the ICR and may be advised by members of
the Jury, and by the technical advisor in Downhill and Super-G, if present.
603.7.7 The course setters must participate in all team captains' meetings at
which a report is to be made about his course.
Referee - Case Studies
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Have Fun!!!
Start List
You are the Race Administrator for Saturday’s J1 Provincial National Points List.
You downloaded the Points list from www.acapoints.ca on Thursday, but to be safe you download another list at 5:00 before you leave for the 7:00 coaches meeting.
At the coaches meeting roll call is taken, you print off a points list and the draw is done electronically.
Coaches go wild. (Video available at www.coachesgonewild.com )
There was an uncertified error in the points upload this week. Half the athletes have last week’s race included, half do not.
What options does the Jury have? What can you do to help?
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Gate Judges, What Gate Judges?
On a very cold day only 10 gate judges are available out of
the 25 that had originally signed up, but the course contains 59
gates.
a) What should the Jury do?
b) Is there any change in the Jury’s approach to handling
protests against DSQ’s?
c) What might the TD include in his report?
d) Referee’s consideration in preparing Referee Report
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Conflict
You are the Referee and one of your club’s athletes has been DSQ’d. A colleague coach has filed a protest and a Jury meeting has been called to hear the protest.
The TD and COR inform you that you cannot participate in the Jury meeting due to your “conflict of interest”.
What are your considerations and what actions might you take?
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Who’s the Referee here anyway?
The Finish Referee, Finish Controller and
Chief Timer saw a racer miss a gate and ski
through two poles of a GS gate, however the
Gate Judge missed the fault.
The TD refused to allow the Finish Referee to
DSQ the racer as the Gate Judge marked clear
passage.
What would you do as a member of the Jury?
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Fault or No-Fault?
After the second run of a men’s slalom, there is a protest of DSQ for a hooked tip.
The coach protested the DSQ claiming that the competitor should not be DSQ’d in that he had crossed the plane defined by the verticals above the points where the gate poles entered the snow with both feet and both ski tips.
The coach argued that although the video clearly showed one tip passing outside of one gate pole, the video tape did not prove that the gate pole was vertical. Therefore, there was reasonable doubt involved and the racer should be favoured.
What does the Jury decide?
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Referee – Different Time Zone
It was your birthday Saturday night and when you wake up late on race day you wish you had been wearing your helmet the night before and you notice that your eyes are bleeding severely.
Arriving late at the hill, you catch up to the COR and TD as they have halfway inspected the course. They have words on your late arrival. They offer you bandages for your eyes.
As you are conducting your high speed inspection to catch the Jury, you notice several course set issues.
The slalom course has too many combinations and is not particularly set to the skill level of the full field.
What are you considerations with respect to your rights and responsibilities?
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Snow Seedless Sour Grapes
As referee, you are ½ way through the second run of a 100 racer GS. It starts to snow heavily and snow starts to accumulate increasing the risk elements on the course.
There are no capable course crew and when you approach coaches to help slip you are met with icy stares.
You call for a Jury meeting to discuss the situation with a 1st
time COR and a poorly equipped TD.
What are your choices at a jury meeting to discuss the situation?
Are your considerations the same the first race of the season and the last?
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Referee # 5 & 6
You show up to do the Referee report and
there are missing gate cards and no Referee
Report form. What do you do?
The results are not going to be posted until
4:00 and you have home work / date / nothing
waiting at home? You decide to leave without
results posted. What happens now?
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Course Setter Blues
Parts 1 and 2Last night you watched “Get Shorty” and “Be Cool”.
Your testosterone level is at an all-time high.
You are setting a wonderful GS and the Jury decides that your legal set is out of sync with existing safety. What can happen?
You are setting a fine GS with two well-respected course setters as assistants. The Referee decides to make major changes “because he can”. What are your considerations and possible actions?
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A Coach’s Dilemma
You are standing beside the Referee during the race and your racer DSQs in view of both of you.
Your athlete’s parents insist you protest. The mother is President of your race club.
You approach the Referee (who along with you witnessed the DSQ) and advise that you are going to protest.
You file a protest.
What can you expect at the Jury meeting?
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Double Finish
A racer completes a SL but after crossing the
finish line realizes she missed the last gate.
Back she goes, corrects her gate passage and
finishes one more time.
1st Electronic Time and 2nd Hand Time
Which one do you use?
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Chief of Course
In a spring series ladies FIS giant slalom, the first 3
racers negotiated the course without incident. Racer
#4 fell, knocking out a gate in the soft snow, and the
gate was replaced by a course crew worker.
Five more competitors raced the course before the
Referee realized that the gate had been replaced
nearly 1 meter from the original dye mark in a dye
mark from the previous day's racing.
He at once radioed the TD to hold the next racer.
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Course Inspection
During the course inspection, the TD notes that the
course setter has taken the skiers on a traverse, over a
knoll towards the tree line at the edge of the course.
The line then calls for a sharp turn back to centre.
It is the TD's opinion that this radical change will
have a severe impact on the field.
Although both the referee and assistant referee agree
with this, they feel that it is the course setter's
prerogative to set this way.
What ensues?44
Race Termination
A race with 90 starters has to be cancelled
because of bad visibility after #72. What do
you do as Referee in regard to the race points?
What is the exact number of racers to have a
result?
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Save what you can!
During the Junior Provincial Championship, at the end of the 1st run, a volunteer tears off the wire at the finish line. System A and B are not functional any more. After a downtime, it is noon. There are 80 women and 100 men.
The 2nd run of the women is completed. The 2nd run of the men is begun but, after 2 racers, the chief timer informs you that it has only an electronic time for the first racer. He confirms that he has manual times for the 2nd racer.
What does the Jury do?
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Quiet in the Balcony!
During a K2 Provincial Championship, as Referee,
you are at Coaches’ Corner where there are
approximately 15 people. A course crew worker is 2
gates higher and seems to you both conscientious and
arduous. You ask him, several times, to not rake the
snow which is becoming overwhelmed with each
blow of the rake.
With the 3rd request, he shouts extremely loud and
with clear advice that includes “sex and travel”.
What do you do?
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Without a Hope!
You are the Referee.
It’s a K1 SL at the zone level. At the time of
the inspection, you notice a combination that
reflects an unusual gate placement that brings
back a clouded memory of the dashing Patrick
Russell of France. Several coaches inquire and
indeed raised objection to the set and ask that
the combination be reset.
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Referee - Racers not at start
GS Race is to start at 9:30. At the call by the COR “5 Minutes to 1st Forerunner” the Jury is advised by the Start Referee that very few racers have arrived.
Numbers 1, 3, 4, 7, 11 are there plus a few more. (Any idea what the next number in the sequence is?)
You are advised that high winds is causing the Gondola to run slower than parliament.
What do you do?
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Rerun confirmation
During the 1st Run of the Slalom the TD receives informationthrough the radio from the Referee that competitor # 5 wasdisturbed in front of him and he requests a rerun. You agree.
After the 1st Run the Referee posted the results with no DSQ.
During the protest time the Jury receives a protest against the rerun of # 5. You know that there is also a video.
#5 belongs to the Referee.
What does the jury do?
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Pedal to the Medal
On Thursday morning you are at Tim’s picking up a large double double, reflecting in the your success as Referee for a Provincial Championship qualifier that ended on Sunday.
Mrs. Slowburn is in line behind you.
Her daughter Heidi placed 3rd in the GS did not qualify for the Provincials, but her team mate Cheater Girl placed 2nd and did qualify.
Unfortunately, Cheater Girl was DSQ’d on the second run. You missed the DSQ on the Referee report and no one noticed and she took the medal anyway while her Coach watched.
As luck would have it their Coach, Cro Magnon, is the a cook at Tim’s (I know – two dream jobs for any young man) and admits to you that he knew all of this to be true on Sunday but thought that Cheater Girl had a better chance at the Provincials.
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Coach Crash Dummy Test
At the time of the inspection of the course of GS it
morning of the race, you have a serious doubt about
the difficulty of one pitch which seems too difficult to
you for the category of athlete.
You ask one coach, Ben Dover, who is passing on the
chairlift to test the course. The test run is carried out
but Ben takes a malicious yard sale and finishes in the
soft snow near the fence by breaking one of his poles.
Why does he have poles?
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Video proof
After the 2nd run of a National Points GS, a
coach brings you a video showing clearly
showing that a racer has well straddled gate
number 31.
On the other hand the number of the racer is
not very clear.
What can you do? Checking for crotch burn on
skin suits is not an option.
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