Not sure why Cheshire is on that list as I'm certainly affiliated there. I play for a Cheshire club until last month lived in Cheshire. I've also made decisions in the past for the Northamptonshire League (on the back of my Leicestershire roots).Martyn Harris wrote:Kent are not the only county missing from the list of level2/3 arbiters. Middlesex' omission may be down to it being regarded as part of London, and we must note that one of the arbiters seems to be of no known abode. However the list given earlier also shows no such arbiter in Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Cleveland, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Herefordshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, or Worcestershire, some of which are home to more than one league.
Without casting aspersions, Alex Holowczak may have something to say about the claim that Worcestershire has no qualified arbiters amongst its ranks.
I also note that Shropshire is on the list, yet successfully ran a FIDE rated congress this year with suitably qualified arbiters present.
In short - I'm not convinced that this list is accurate, nor representative.