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Observers are hard to come by. Even paid observers. It is the worst job to fill on a trial. Observers have to make tough calls, face down intimidation and stand outside in the pouring rain for 6 hours. Have any of you been an observer at a world championship event? Do you know how many people offer to help with an event but refuse to observe? A judgment call is deamed a state of fact. End of the story. You can not fully understand what happens in each section either. The call where the rider was given a five and the the observer changed his mind to a three. How do you know that one observer didn't have a better angle than the other and was ammending the score based on the better vantage point. This is most often the case when scores in a section change. One obserevr has a better vantage point. That's why there are 4-5 in each section. I think the observers in Duluth did a good job. They were consistent. You can argue that a strike should have been a ball but it's the umpire with the final say.