It seems to me that a lot of judges that judge higher level events such as nationals still don't know the correct rulings for a lot of things. I know that for other card games there are high qualifications for judges to be able to judge higher level events, but for Pokemon it seems all you have to do is be willing to judge. I've seen many examples of judges getting very obvious rulings wrong in events, which can be understandable sometimes, but not consistently.
Also I think judge behavior is an important thing that needs addressing. Two big examples of this are my top cut matches at states and nationals top 2 juniors. At states, my judges were saying things like "Just scoop, so we can all go home" and then they would start talking about yugioh and ignore my match completely. Also, in top 2 nats in juniors, when time was called and the judge said "We have a champion!" when Patrick still had the opprotunity to finish his turn. I felt like that was completely inappropriate.
So what do you guys think? How's the judge quality for higher level events and how could we improve it?
Also, please excuse any incoherency, as it's 2 AM and I'm tired.
Also I think judge behavior is an important thing that needs addressing. Two big examples of this are my top cut matches at states and nationals top 2 juniors. At states, my judges were saying things like "Just scoop, so we can all go home" and then they would start talking about yugioh and ignore my match completely. Also, in top 2 nats in juniors, when time was called and the judge said "We have a champion!" when Patrick still had the opprotunity to finish his turn. I felt like that was completely inappropriate.
So what do you guys think? How's the judge quality for higher level events and how could we improve it?
Also, please excuse any incoherency, as it's 2 AM and I'm tired.