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JDenz
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I was really critical of last years USJJF nationals and I thought very deservingly so, but this year I think they fixed almost every issue that I had. The weighins were much improved actully having a digital scale was a huge improvement, and brought alot more respectability to event. The tournament was run so much better. There was not the dead time that there was last year. I think the venue was better this year. I think everything went alot smoother having it be only the USJJF there insted of all the karate people as well. I think that the turnout for nationals was alot bigger then last year. I don't have any specifics or anything but it looked like there were alot more people in the event. I felt the judging was alot more consistent this time. This time at the event I felt that every ref was consistent with there calls. I don't think that you can ask anything more then that out of an unpaid ref. As long as the calls are the same good or bad if they make the same call in the same situation every time no one can complain. I really felt this was the case this weekend. Last year I thought that some of the refs were making diffrent calls for diffrent people. I didn't think that it was on purpose or favoritism just that they wern't consistant in there calls, Almost all the ref's were the same as last year and I feel that they were all improved. That being said I think that they need to get together and decied what acceptable levels of face contact is. I felt that the calls were very diffrent mat to mat. I am not complaining this time because you knew what refs were going to call what so it you got Dq'd you had no one to blame but yourself. The only major major issue at the event was the scoring table. I think the usjjf may need to have train the table help. There were alot of points that should have been scored that wern't. Alot of the scores were given to the wrong color and some full houses were missed. I felt from what I saw the second day, that this was already being taken care of. I think the refs got some uneserved flack for missing that stuff. With so much action going in there is no way a ref can keep track of score who has how many ippon and what not. Well that is all I have to say I just wanted to give the Usjjf it's due for being good as much as I did for it being bad.
