Sorry, I'll be more specific. And again, I think MOST of the judges were fine. I'm just saying a FEW weren't being so professional, and that maybe you guys can stress to them in the future that this is a kid's event and that they need to chillax.
1. Judge (red shirt) yelling at volunteer (green shirt) in front of everyone. Whether justified or not, that's not okay.
2. Judge (red shirt) yelling at players to get out of the "non watching area" when it was in fact a place that people could watch the matches. Another judge (or a volunteer, can't remember) told them to move back. (Better scenario: Judge asks another judge if people can be standing there, yelling avoided).
3. Two people told me they were yelled at for watching a match or two because they were "deck scouting." One of them was not even in the tournament, and when trying to tell the guy, he was like "Nope. You are deck scouting. Out. Don't argue with me." I heard another similar scenario, though the judge was nicer and not "telling" them what they were doing.
4. When I was taking photos with my press pass, this one judge was CONSTANTLY down my throat. I asked the Schells if they were experiencing any similar problems, and they said no. I was trying to take photos of the top matches as they were, and I was obstructing absolutely no one's view, and yet he is yelling at me to "hurry up" and "you got your photo, now leave." I think his talking was more distracting than anything. I didn't get my photo first of all, and secondly he acted like I was going to print out the photos during the match and show them to the other player, even though I wasn't even taking pics of the cards. Two of the volunteers standing their gave me "Geez, what's his problem?" looks, so I wasn't just imagining it.
5. One little kid was telling me how one of the judges yanked his friend away from the playing area borders and practically knocked him off his feet in doing so (accidentally of course). I was HOPING he was exaggerating, since you don't EVER touch kids at an event like this, but I could he was being honest. It sounds like the judge had just gone a little overboard.
6. Judge yells at me with my press pass for "gathering a group of people" around myself in a non-watching area, when there were like three people and I did not even know them. He made my heart race with his "No, you were doing it. No arguing." attitude. I would have moved even if I was or not doing it, since I was only temporarily standing there anyways.
7. Other general "rudeness" revolving around people watching matches. Geez, why don't they just put the matches behind closed doors if no one is allowed to watch or there are so many problems?
But yeah, those were some of the problems. It was just general rudeness and roughness, and people seeming to take the power they had to their head. Some of it was probably justified, though also probably overboard.
And again, I am ONLY bringing this stuff up not to start trouble, but so perhaps you guys can pay closer attention to things that go on like this in the future. I don't just randomly post in topics to start trouble, especially when I am going to see many of you IRL in the future.