![]() ![]() We had something like that in high school for unexcused absences. I can do something 4 times before it matters. It’s a paperwork and logistical nightmare and adds more refs to the staff. If we want to see roller derby continue to grow as a sport we must take the following steps to improve the sport and to make the sport much more accessible to those who want to play.ġ. I’m not all doom and gloom and I’ve come prepared with solutions. While we are all volunteers now we’ve got to be looking to the future and finding 15 ref volunteers to help out reffing a bout will soon not be an option as the demands for well trained referees grow and as that demand grows I fear we will start to see leagues beginning to pay their reffing staff to make sure they have a large enough ref crew for a legal bout. We could assign a ref to a girl and just have that ref stick with her the whole time and already have less refs involved. Why don’t we just start skating man on man coverage. Consider now that we’ve got 10 girls on the track skating at any moment which gives us a 1.5:1 ref:girl ratio which is ridiculous. By my math, which is usually wrong, you have about 15 refs and NSOs that have to be involved to have a WFTDA sanctioned roller derby bout. We’ve got way to many refs to ever be considered a sustainable sport. We skate on flat tracks because they are easy and simple and cheap and if roller derby can survive and grow into a full sport in which high schools and colleges have roller derby teams they will be skating on flat tracks and not banked because it’s cheap and also possible to have a pick up flat track game in the parking lot of the mall provided you pay off the fuzz but it’s much harder to have a pick up banked track bout. We all know in our hearts that there is something really sexy about banked track roller derby but we also know that with sex appeal comes too much responsibility. The reason we are flat landers and not skating on a slant is money. ![]() How many refs should we need to have to run a full bout? If our goal as an emerging sport is to grow and spread the good word of flat track then that number must be low. ![]()
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