It’s the same on the boys end, especially tournaments. Referee shortages so they take who they can get (not everyone wants to blow their entire weekend being a ref for the pittance) and multiple games over and over so it’s hard to stay focused on that line let alone care. At Cerritos saw one ref just lie down the second game during an injury break. Second day there was no rhyme nor reason to the calls: pk for an obvious dive but a real foul was a no call…obvious offsides not called and ref trailing behind the line but then parents complain and a no offside called as offside…no rhyme or reason…but even the brackets on the boys side didn’t make a whole lot of sense (an mls next team in the mix, ea teams in the lower division, Latino rec team in the upper division). The best attitude to go in there is that it is what it is….
League at least for the higher letter league is better because it’s not such a crush at once and not a holiday weekend and refs can chose local. Letter league they tend to get their pick before SoCal.