I would like to begin a new chapter of communication in the
hopes of improving our officiating in the America's. Our
Confederation President Domingo Solano has been kind enough to
allow the Referee & Judges Commission to establish a section of
the
Confederation website to provide important updates. The
objective of the Referee/Judges Commission is to standardize
and unify criteria's in all 42 National Federations in the
America's. As most of you know we have already started down
that road of unifying criteria's. On November 21, 2009 we
conducted a very successful seminar for all Chairman of R/J
Commissions in the America's. Our agenda was very
extensive, covering all of the important aspects of officiating
facing us today. All attendees were provided a R/J Manual and
a CD with everything that was covered in the seminar. We felt
that a seminar of this kind was important because there are so
many changes being handed down by AIBA and we wanted our
continent R/J's to have the most updated materials
available.
One of the biggest changes that we communicated was regarding
the new Stars Program. In the past R/J's were classified as
either Continental or International (AIBA) level. That has
changed, at the seminar we communicated that the Continental level
has been eliminated. Referee/Judges will now be classified as
either AIBA One Star, Two Stars, or Three Stars. At the moment
we are in the process of further clarifying how an R/J becomes
a One Star, how he advances to Two & Three Stars. This will
be communicated in the very near future, stay tuned.
It is important to fully understand this new Star rating program
for R/J's because it will impact how we conduct tournaments in
2010 and in the future. R/J's will only be able to work
tournaments based on their Star rating. For example: Three
Star TournamentsOnly Three Star R/J's will be able to work
tournaments that have 20 or more countries with 150 boxers
participating. This will include all Confederation Championships.
Major World tournaments: Olympic Games, World Championships,
World Cup, President's Cup, Olympic Qualifying Tournaments,
Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, etc.
Two Star TournamentsOnly Two Star R/J's will be able to work
tournaments that have 11-19 countries with over 100 boxers
participating. One Star TournamentsThese will include National
Championships, dual matches between two countries or
small multi-level tournaments. Lastly, I would like to say
that I need to start a new way of communicating directly
and separately to all Chairman's of National R/J Commissions.
Therefore, what I need is for each National Federation to
please send me the name of your respective National
R/J Commission Chairman.
In addition, I will need their e-mail address. If your
National Federation or President of the National Federation
would like to be copied on what I communicate to these
Chairman's please send me an e-mail address for that purpose
as well
I would like to begin a new chapter of
communication in the hopes of improving our
officiating in the America's. Our Confederation
President Domingo Solano has been kind
enough to allow the Referee & Judges Commission
to establish a section of the
Confederation website to provide important updates.
The objective of the
Referee/Judges Commission is to standardize and
unify criteria's in all 42 National
Federations in the America's. As most of you know
we have already started down that
road of unifying criteria's. On November 21, 2009
we conducted a very successful
seminar for all Chairman of R/J Commissions in the
America's. Our agenda was very
extensive, covering all of the important aspects of
officiating facing us today. All
attendees were provided a R/J Manual and a CD with
everything that was covered in the
seminar. We felt that a seminar of this kind was
important because there are so many
changes being handed down by AIBA and we wanted our
continent R/J's to have the
most updated materials available.
One of the biggest changes that we communicated was
regarding the new Stars
Program. In the past R/J's were classified as
either Continental or International (AIBA)
level. That has changed, at the seminar we
communicated that the Continental level has
been eliminated. Referee/Judges will now be
classified as either AIBA One Star, Two
Stars, or Three Stars. At the moment we are in the
process of further clarifying how an
R/J becomes a One Star, how he advances to Two
& Three Stars. This will be
communicated in the very near future, stay
tuned.
It is important to fully understand this new Star
rating program for R/J's because it will
impact how we conduct tournaments in 2010 and in
the future. R/J's will only be able
to work tournaments based on their Star rating. For
example:
Three Star Tournaments
Only Three Star R/J's will be able to work
tournaments that have 20 or more countries
with 150 boxers participating. This will include
all Confederation Championships. Major
World tournaments: Olympic Games, World
Championships, World Cup, President's
Cup, Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, Youth Olympic
Games, Pan American Games, etc.
Two Star Tournaments
Only Two Star R/J's will be able to work
tournaments that have 11-19 countries with
over 100 boxers participating.
One Star TournamentsThese will include National
Championships, dual matches between two countries or
small multi-level tournaments.
Lastly, I would like to say that I need to start a
new way of communicating directly and
separately to all Chairman's of National R/J
Commissions. Therefore, what I need is for
each National Federation to please send me the name
of your respective National R/J
Commission Chairman. In addition, I will need their
e-mail address. If your National
Federation or President of the National Federation
would like to be copied on what I
communicate to these Chairman's please send me an
e-mail address for that purpose as
well