September 20, 2017
Assignments
- Continue to monitor your assignments on Arbiter.
- Let me know before your match if you have any discrepancies.
- Faith emailed to say that some of the match times have been updated – please re-accept. Others continue to show 12:01 or TBA. They will be updated and you will be notified with a time change.
CRS
- See Pac-12 Video Board Policy attached to this email.
- Update your app.
From Chris Sheldrick, DVSport Replay Solutions Manager:
iOS11 has been released by Apple, please help any officials that may ask you about it. Also, please make sure they update their DVSport Shuttle App or else they won’t be able to see/view video on their iPad. iOS will need to be updated along with DVSport Shuttle.
- If you are at a CRS school, remind coaches at the meet and greet and know who many cameras are being used. “Coach, if you would like to view the camera angles, the event manager can help you.”
If you are at Cal, OSU, UCLA, or USC (non-TV matches at WSU), remind coaches that you will not be using CRS tonight at the meet and greet.
- Attached is the revised Data Collection Form. I have sent it to all of the scorers, even though they are copied on this Communique’.
- Scan the completed Data Collection Form to me, after each CRS match and, submit the results to the link at bottom of the form.
- OD – Original Decision does not mean the whistle/signal that ended the rally. OD is related to the actual challenge.
Ask yourself – “What precipitated the coach’s challenge?”
For example, the R1 allows play to continue after what appeared to be a successful pancake by Team A and the ball was hit out by Team B. Team B coach challenges that the pancake was down. The OD would be “unsuccessful pancake” (not ball out) and the LT needs to write that in on the Data Collection Form – or the R2 can add later.
- Provide a gesture to the replay tech if there is an unusual play (not CRS related) that you would like tagged as a Play of Interest (POI). During a TO, between games or after intermission, ask the tech if your POI will go to me just like the challenges. The tech just needs to press – Control Y.
Techniques/Mechanics
- “Early 4” was eliminated from our techniques quite some time ago. R2s should not be giving “4” until the fourth contact is made.
- The R2 helps with touches (sparingly) if the R1:
- Looks at you for help DURING play – the signal is discreet (a head nod can suffice). OR
- At the END of play only if there is a micro-touch or if you think your R1 doesn’t have it.
That touch signal is big and the R2 needs to take a step toward the court to sell it.
- Rarely does the R1 need to communicate a touch during play, but there are times you need to let a coach/players know that there was a touch and play will continue. That signal should be low (below your face, so not to obstruct your view of the next contact). Give a little air to it, (like our normal touch signal, only sideways), so it does not appear as though you are applauding the play!!
- R2s – When one of the teams errantly passes a ball on the second contact in the free zone near you, the only way contact #3 can be successful is if the player directs it cross-court. Give and go! They player comes toward you, you release and get to the pole to ensure that the ball does not contact the antenna and travels legally inside the antenna.
- When an “outside-in” server (server starts outside the court near a LJ corner), and it happens to be the libero wanting to go to her left-side base position, she may take a wide angle to get there. Give her the right of way. Get to your corner as quickly as possible, avoiding contact with the player. The R1 or R2 may need to help on the ace serve, down the LJ sideline, in case they are late!! (Discuss this server’s unique serve and her route to defense during a TO.)