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Re: FMS final scoreboard design

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Originally Posted by inkling16 View Post
To the best of my knowledge, the AUTO discs and TELEOP discs are counted separately by the field crew after each match in order to determine final scores. Moreover, the FMS apparently already records each alliances AUTO points for every match because each team has their cumulative AUTO points as a tiebreaker for seeding.
You are correct, the system does indeed count both auto and teleop discs. Scorekeepers can manually go in an change both amounts after the match.

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The only reason that I can think of is that FIRST does not believe that people are interested enough in the AUTO score. The simplification of scoring to 3 categories (DISC POINTS, CLIMB POINTS, FOUL POINTS) keeps the scoreboard looking clean-cut.
I think FIRST wants everyone to know the full score, perhaps the suggestion to add auto points to the final score screen has not been been presented yet? Clearly there is enough space on the screen but you also have to take into account how would adding "Auto points" and "Teleop points" affect the common non-FIRST affiliated observer?
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