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Originally Posted by Steven Donow
As a referee at Mt. Olive, you're just totally overexagerrating the parity between live scoring and actual scoring. Here are the only situations in which the final score would be 'vastly different' from the live scoring:
1. Fouls
2. A last second cycle input
3. The very few times where a cycle was inputted incorrectly (which, to me at least, only happened once).
To say that a significant amount of unexplained extra points showed up on the board after the match is absolutely wrong. And if an alliance is scoring a ball every 15 seconds? That makes it even harder for the refs.
Speaking with fellow refs, 99% of the time there was a delay (even as small as 3 seconds) in putting in the livescore was to just last minute check to make sure everything is right. Would you rather us rush to input scores and mess them up? (which I admittedly did once, but noticed it and ensured the score was corrected).
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The other situation that can drastically affect live scoring is if a ball has gone through the high goal, the ref scores it and ends the cycle, but the ball ends up popping out. If that happened at the end of a match, you could see up to a 40 point difference between live scoring and final scoring.