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What Was Being a Ref Like?
I love adjudicating. Its what I spend most of my time on TG doing. I got really hooked after hearing an interview with Robert Mruczek. The way he talked about being a ref made it sound almost magical.
It wasn't just watching somebody play a video game and putting a number into a database. It was witnessing top gamers put up scores and then putting that into TG, creating unerasable evidence of their achievements.
So that's what started my TG addiction. I'm curious to know what differences there really are between being a ref and an adjudicator. I'm sure my plan of attack for going after the Queue Monster is a bit different than how ref's would go through their work load.
I specifically remember Robert mentioning a stack of tapes that was a 4 day performance of Nibbler. I probably would never touch that. As a ref you HAD to watch that performance or else it didn't go in the database. As an adjudicator I can just wait until other people do it. So it got me thinking, what other differences are there between being a ref and an adjudicator?
I'm sure there's a few of you still around that'd be willing to share.