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The Europeans have a different way of reffing than us, they enforce 'self reffing' which I saw at the epiphany tournament earlier this year. This is a really good method in low key tournaments such as epiphany but for the big tournaments I think it should be very serious reffing etc
That said last week I felt personally I was pushing it as far as I could and I was experimenting with what I could get away with. I only really got called on one challenge against Sophie which was Dick from me. I kinda realised that Europeans are used to it. And none of them really are complaining about this it seems. I think once a tournament has a couple of experienced refs that are willing to ref the majority of games (like towards the end of euros) the rest of us should focus on our play. And beating the big European/American teams.