1&2. You will need at least two whistles. I have one on a wrist strap, and one on a lanyard. If my snitch referee doesn't have one, or doesn't have one which I think is good enough, I'll give them the one on the wrist strap. Some referees have finger whistles, some just carry them - it's up to what works best for you. I prefer a lanyard so I can have my hands free for signalling when I blow the whistle, but it does mean that sometimes I lose a moment finding it when I need to make a call.
3. I would be willing to bet that most head referees have started a game without their cards in hand at some point. I'm fairly prone to leaving mine on the scorekeepers table. We need shirts with pockets, but I digress. Every head referee should have their own set of cards, just so you always know where they are. One red, one yellow, one blue. This point seems extremely obvious and condescending so I'm going to end it now.
4. The sun is directly behind one set of hoops, or the wind is really strong and the quaffle keeps rolling one way down the pitch. Or there's a slope. Something has made both captains very set on the idea of starting at the same end of the pitch, so you'll need to do a coin flip. Spoiler alert, 60% of the time you will drop the coin. Just make sure if you are using foreign currency, the person calling the toss knows what the sides are. Icelandic coins don't have heads or tails, they have fishies or shields. You don't need the embarrassment of dropping the coin twice because the first toss called something that wasn't even there.
5. Is a referee shirt white with black stripes or black with white stripes? It doesn't matter, as long as it is stripey. Again, it's nice to have your own because as much as quidditchers are a close community, there's only so much of someone else's sweat you can wear before you'd rather just stick to your own. Also it's much more likely to fit.
6. A peaked cap isn't just an awesome fashion statement with your referee moniker, it's also very useful to keep sun and rain out of your face. Running around with your hand above your eyes gets tiring and looks silly. There will always be something you could've seen better if the sun hadn't been quite so in your eyes, be it a hoop or otherwise, so it's best to minimise these issues where possible.
7. You don't need a printed copy of the rulebook, but I would recommend having the pdf downloaded to your phone/tablet if you don't. Especially for big tournaments, there will be rules that you want to double check before you go into the next game, either to reassure yourself that you did the right thing or to make sure you do the right thing the next time it comes up. Also, you'll probably have to set up a pitch at some point and it's a lot easier to just read off the numbers from the book than take them from memory.
8. Hugs! Consensual hugs. Everyone should be able to have those.
Those are the physical things. I'll make another post later about the less tangible things and I'll try to remember to link it here...
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