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Hey folks, I'm doing the music and PA announcing for my state's HS championship weekend. I don't know who the teams will be yet, and even if I did, I have no way to reach out to them ahead of time to ask them directly, so I'm here to ask Reddit for help! I don't want the music selection to be lame, but I have no idea what music is popular among high school students. I'm asking for your suggestions for both a) music the fans would enjoy, and b) songs players would enjoy hearing during their warmups.

If you have any situational suggestions like "The Final Countdown during a late-game timeout", I'd love to hear those too!

Feel free to offer as many suggestions as you want, and thanks for any

I'm not looking to doxx myself, so I won't go into too much detail, but as I've posted about before, I'm a new referee. I did a handful of youth games in the fall and just did my first HS games this week. I did 3 games in 3 days: one varsity and two JV, the latter of which I had no partner for.

Trial. By. Fire.

On the third game, the assignor and I were transparent with the coaches about me being new and alone. I was nervous as hell going into it. Like most new referees, I was very timid with my flag in the first two games, using my partner as a crutch. Didn't have that option for game three: either I call it or it doesn't get called. Once I got into my pregame routine, though, all t

I just need to vent a little. I referee for both Soccer and Lacrosse. All the soccer assigning in my area is done with Ridgestar and our assigners have it set up where we self-assign games. I don't love Ridgestar in general, but I love being able to self-assign.

For Lacrosse, the state uses Arbiter, and they don't have self-assign enabled. They want me to put blocks on the calendar whenever I'm not available, and then they assign me games during the unblocked time.

Lacrosse is giving me some serious calendar anxiety. Like...I'm a parent of three kids, and refereeing isn't the only thing I have going on in my life, so my calendar changes A LOT. Arbiter doesn't have an integration wi

Like the title says, there was some talk JBP did where (one of) his point(s) was that the way to stop a future holocaust was for you to face the malevolence inside of you, and realize that were you in the position of the "Ordinary Men" (the title of the book he was referring to) you'd probably have done exactly what they did -- to realize that you COULD be a Nazi, and to choose not to do that any more.

Anyone know which video that was, and have a link for me?

The Space Needle Shootout is this weekend at (mostly) Starfire Sports in Tukwila, WA. Who's going??

I'll be going from 0 to 100 in a hurry as a new ref, as I've got several games across the tournament - my first without a shadow. Have no fear, I've been paired up with much more experienced refs on all of them.

If I'm your ref, I guarantee I will screw some stuff up, but I also promise to do by best, and get better every game. We can all be ice cubes together!!

See you on the field!

I had my first game today. I was shadowing a senior official for a handful of games today, and he offered me the whistle for one of them. No amount of classroom time can prepare you for the sheer volume of things you need to keep track of.

On the F/O, you've got to remember to check your partner to for his ready signal before you order the players down, then you've got to (quickly) check stick position on both the x and y axes, as well as rotation on the y and z axes, make sure the ball's in the middle, make sure their bodies are outside the neutral zone, and don't take too long to get from down to set to whistle. Now you've got 10 things happening at once, and there are any number of wa

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In the new C3 title sequence, the cast appear in a different order than they appeared in the "indiana jones" title sequence from earlier in C3. Out of curiosity, anyone have any idea how they determine the order?

I've got a pair of tickets to Peterson's event on May 4th at the Paramount in Seattle, but now I can't go. I could try to sell them, but I'd rather just give them to someone who otherwise wouldn't have had the opportunity. I'm sure someone here couldn't get tickets or couldn't afford them, and would really enjoy/benefit from attending. If that's you, tell me why you want to go, so I know they're being put to good use.

Edit: Apparently, the event has now been rescheduled for next year. So, scratch this.

I've scoured the website and haven't found anything, but my son is coming to the game on Sunday and it's his actual birthday. Anyone know who you talk to about getting a happy birthday on the screen?