At a junior girls match, the R2 and scorekeeper are players performing their work-team duties.
Team A #7 serves and loses the rally. Team B serves and loses the rally.
Team A coach asks the scorekeeper “who is my next server?” The scorekeeper responds “#7″. With this incorrect information, Team A #7 serves. Team B notices the error and brings it to the R1′s attention after the rally. The scorekeeper admits “I gave the coach the wrong information”.
What is the correct outcome?
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by Kennon
04 May 2012 at 16:03
23.2.1 During the match the first referee’s decisions are final. He/she is authorized to overrule the decisions of other members of the refereeing corps, if it is noticed that they are mistaken.
Cancel the rally(s), Give the coach the correct information. Award a re-play.
by Kuba
25 Apr 2012 at 14:18
Hi,
This situation is described in FIVB casebook. The point should be cancelled and the player who should have been the next server should serve now. The text from the FIVB casebook:
A team won a rally and with it a point and service. Before rotating to serve, the game captain asked the 2nd referee for a line-up check to determine the correct server. The scorer told the 2nd referee that player #10 was the correct server. Player #10 then served four points. Before #10 could serve again, the scorer informed the 2nd referee that in fact player #8 should have been the server. The 1st referee ruled that the four points scored by player #10 would be cancelled. The team returned to the score and position in which #8 should have served. All team time-outs and substitutions occurring during those four rallies were cancelled, but not the TTOs.
Player #8 was then allowed to serve and the game continued from the point where the game captain requested to know the correct
server. Was this the correct decision for the 1st referee to make?
Ruling:
The referee’s decision was correct. In situations like this, misconduct sanctions and Technical Time-Outs remain as played. The teams must revert to as close to their original line-up as possible. These events must be recorded on the score sheet.
EDITORS NOTE: The FIVB casebook is a great resource for USAV officials, but remember that sometimes, rulings in FIVB are not correct for USAV play if those rulings are superceded by a gray box in the DCR. Always check to see if a ruling is first noted in the USAV casebook. If not, send an email to the Officials Commission asking that a case be written to cover a situation. In the instance above, the ruling for USAV is the same as for FIVB.