[OrangenowBlue]

The 13th region used to have some very tainted referees imo, but I believe many of them have retired. Hopefully that region has cleaned the bad eggs out. Most of the suspicious ones were actually very good officials, just dirty when they wanted to be. Some of them even called a few state tournaments.

In a close game a 3 second call here, a no-call there, a wrong block call, etc, can make a HUGE difference when two teams are fairly even in talent. To say referees don't sometimes (but not often) make a difference in some games is ludricrous. It happens.

You may be correct concerning the 13th region. Some of the younger officials do a good job. I have seen none of the older names in a while.