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WSF Referees’ Review  ...  June 2008
Half-way through another calendar year, and it’s time for another edition of the WSF Referees’ Review.

This issue is of modest size – which reflects perhaps the modest number of assignments for WSF Referees in the first six months of this year. However, the second half of the year promises to be quite busy.

The chief feature of the past six months is the continued spread of the Three Referee System – to which most of the reports in this issue testify.

My thanks to all the contributors to this issue.
The next issue of the Referees’ Review will be in
November 2008. All contributions should be sent to: symingto@uvic.ca

WSF Referees’ Review  ...  Dec 2007
It has been six months since the last Referees’ Review appeared and a lot has happened in that time.

As the Reports in this issue reveal, WSF Referees have been in great demand, and in most of the major tournaments (including the British Open and the World Open) the 3 Referee System was used successfully.

The players are much happier with the decisions made by three Referees, and while there are still “pockets of resistance”, the 3 Referee System will eventually accepted everywhere, and in a year or two we will all be thinking: Why did it take so long?

WSF Referees’ Review  ...  June 2007
Since the last edition of the WSF Referees’ Review two major developments have taken place in the world of international refereeing. The first of these is the re-introduction of the 3-Referee System. While the system has been used only in a handful of tournaments – and thus it is still too early to conclude that this is the final answer to all of squash’s officiating problems – it does seem to be the way forward at this time, as is noted in the articles included in this newsletter.

The second major development has been the approval by the WSF of a comprehensive programme of training and assessment for referees at all levels. The Working Group that developed this programme began its work in January 2005, so the process has taken almost two and a half years. The programme sets explicit standards for the achievement of the various levels of referee certification, and outlines in considerable detail how those standards are to be assessed in each individual case.
  


May 2007 Newsletter

WSF CBTA Programme Documents

WSF Referees’ Review  ...  Dec 2006

Since the last issue of the Referees’ Review WSF Referees have been busy, as the table of
assignments later in this Newsletter reveals.

New Zealand, Hong Kong, Belfast, Cairo, Cape Town, Sheffield, Karachi, etc. We are fortunate that some of the WSF Referees who
were assigned to those venues have been willing to enlighten us about their experiences.

It is clearly not true that WSF Referees can only count to eleven (if that); some of them can write as well! My thanks go to all those
contributors who have made this edition of the Referees’ Review so ample and so interesting!


December 2006 Newsletter

WSF Referees’ Review  ...  May 2006
This edition of the WSF Referees Review
contains a wealth of interesting and
informative material and a few chuckles as  well. I hope you will be both amused and edified.

Our motto is now and always will be: prodesse et delectare: to instruct and amuse.

As usual, all feedback is welcome.
Send  comments and money to me at
symingto@uvic.ca

Rod Symington

 
Also see:

Dec 2005
Review


May 2006 Review

 

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