Originally published at: https://ultiworld.com/livewire/the-slow-march-towards-referees/
WFDF, the international governing body for Ultimate, made a pretty significant rule change for 2013: non-players can “assist” players on up/down and in/out calls. Why? A lot of time players don’t have good perspective on those kinds of calls. But if you’re going to allow that, why not just add observers for those decisions, even…