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Originally Posted by tanmaker
This is, in fact, automated within the FMS (to an extent). The referee panels have a button which says end cycle. This is pressed when a ball is scored, and triggers the FMS to calculate score based on possessions and assists, and light up the pedestal among other things. There is something, somewhere in systems which is causing delays. I ref week 3, but I am told that there is a noticeable delay between the ref panels being touched and them accepting the input.
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Yup, and then the pedestal remains lit until the referees record "something" happening with the ball (assist, truss, catch, goal ... SOMETHING). The field staff MAY inadvertently place the new ball on the pedestal while it's still lit, and if a team grabs that ball and enters it into the field that's a Field Fault. The field staff and referees were warned of this (since there's no way to detect the ball being removed from the pedestal) and now you are too.
-Danny