Dodgeball DQ

What kind of team gets disqualified for misconduct during a dodgeball match? Apparently ours.

During the game, this guy Brian on my team got called out for stepping over the line on one of his throws. He disagreed (to say the least) and really didn't even go out until the third time the ref told him to get out. While he was on the sideline he continued his "disagreement" with the ref, and after disputing that he crossed the line, ended by saying "you need glasses, man". At this point the ref lost it and walked out into the middle of the court blowing his whistle and waving his hands. Everyone was of course very confused because there was still a minute 30 left in the game and it was tied with 3 people on each side remaining. Then the ref just announces "you guys win" and points to the other team, who after a moment of confusion start celebrating. Our team at this point has a "what the..!" moment and so i run over to the group of refs and he tells me "you guys just kept insulting me, you're out". What??? "You need glasses" is an insult worthy of an entire team's disqualification? Spencer at this point goes right up to the refs face and yells "you're terrible!" They didn't like that too much either. Haha. It was almost funny. It was very lame that we only got to play for 2.5 minutes and could have won, but it was pretty funny to be disqualified from a dodgeball match. We probably would not have won the tournament anyways, so what a way to go. The refs were REAL pissed at us though, and becuase we had on those uniforms we were easily identifiable and I even got an evil eye from a CRC manager guy later in the night. That guy takes his job wayyy too seriously.

We had been playing at the Georgia Tech "One Night Stand" which is when the rec center is open until 4am and there are all kinds of organized sporting tournaments (volleyball, basketball, etc) and contests, such as doughnut eating and half-court shooting. All in all, a very cool idea and event. This dodgeball game was at 2am and I should mention several of my team members were therefore three sheets to the wind. That probably didn't help the situation too much. For this spring's intramural dodgeball I'm going to have to take the team to sportsmanship school.