[KrazyCarl92]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

IMO, there should be two people manually verifying the scores for each alliance.

I would also gladly wait the extra 2-3 minutes for the scorekeepers to input the official manual disc counts into the system before displaying the scores to the audience. Even if the outcome of a match isn't changed, it would show everyone at the event that the scoring is at least being done properly.

I volunteered as a scorer at an off season event this year. At least for last year, the FMS system could not begin connecting to the next matches robots until after the score from the previous match was posted. This means that in matches where you wait for the discs to be meticulously counted, waiting for that count becomes the rate determining step in match cycle times. I believe this may be why FIRST elected to post scores ASAP for matches that aren't close; it will speed up the match cycles because they can connect to the next match's robots sooner.