[GaryVoshol]

At Troy during the qualification matches, the scores stayed up the entire time. They were even up while I was punching in the bridge results, so that the actual final score appeared even before the Whoosh! sound. I thought that was a little weird at first, but got used to the idea.

At some time on Saturday, I don't remember if it was morning or afternoon, I noticed that the scores were removed in the last final seconds of the match - maybe 5 seconds, certainly no more than 10. That gave a little more suspense to announcing the final score, but still allowed teams and audience to see the score throughout the match.

I don't know who made the call to show or not show the score.

It was noted several places that real-time scoring was the reason for having the automatic ball counters and the ref foul pads. Turning the score off defeats that purpose.