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Referees protect athletes; judges decide rounds. These guides cover becoming an official, scoring consistently, stopping bouts safely and using the KBN referee app for check-in and offline scoring.
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To become a kickboxing referee you typically need solid knowledge of the sport, a referee course and exam run by a federation, supervised experience at amateur events, first-aid awareness and good fitness. KBN events use...
10–9, 10–8, 10–7 and the rare 10–10. What each score means, how knockdowns and fouls are recorded, and how the app sends it to the live centre.
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Scoring, check-in and the referee app.
Becoming an official
To become a kickboxing referee you typically need solid knowledge of the sport, a referee course and exam run by a federation, sup...
Becoming a combat sports judge means learning the scoring criteria of your discipline, practising scoring full bouts against exper...
Scoring
10–9, 10–8, 10–7 and the rare 10–10. What each score means, how knockdowns and fouls are recorded, and how the app sends it to the...
A 10-8 round is scored when one athlete clearly dominates, typically with a knockdown plus control of the rest of the round or ove...
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