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There is a lot to say about reffin, rules, and way to play it during this EHBPC 2012.
I was thinking before that light or almost no reffin can be better than overuled and reffed games, Worlds in 2011 Seatlle was a good example in my opinion.
During this week end I saw several huge fouls, or dirty plays uncalled, or with player get only verbal warnings. I think ball turnover any time you see something like that is way more efficient than any other way to call foul. And being ready to cancel some goals.
Also my point about non-reffin' was also because i was thinking that most players were nices and realistic enough to don't think "if the ref is not using is wistle, then i can continue".
But this seems untrue when games count so much.
I don't know what to think also about the 20 last second of our games against spring break. The whole game was pretty awesome for me, and the last 20 seconds looks like a fuckin' non-sens bunny hop check (from my side) and double foot on the ground-bike in hand-push (from Ryan) or also mallet hack when dab (from my bro'). This all happens because it was a tie 0-0, between the first two teams of the groups, in a game were some collision happens and put more pressure, without any ref to stop it.
Pictures of this game here, sad that every important frame is missing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiralone/7621367266/in/set-72157630692953146#/photos/spiralone/7621367266/in/set-72157630692953146/lightbox/