The Israeli regional was much better in this aspect.
There was only one REALLY bad issue I recall... the Red Alliance scored a goal in one of the Qualification Matches, and the volunteer still hadn't put a ball on the pedestal (he had a long time to do it - since the start of the cycle, but he forgot I guess).
Anyway, the pedestal got lit .. but since there was no ball on it, he FORBADE the HP to take a ball from the ground next to the pedestal, and wasted a minute and a half before the refs fianlly noticed and allowed the HP to take the ball.
Luckily, Red still won because of 100 foul points...
I will say however, that it was the only incident I saw which was a real issue. Pedestals nearly always lit up within 5 seconds of a cycle completing. In fact, I don't recall a time where it was more than 5 seconds...
