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Re: Missed Inbounder Assists
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Originally Posted by Karthik
This was not an issue in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2011, which all had games where you could get a very good approximation of the score just by glancing at the field. That combined with some real time scoring for display purposes only, made all four of those games incredibly spectator friendly. To me, this type of setup is something we should be striving for.
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I am not sure that I would equate "being able to glance at the field and approximate the score" with spectator friendly. In most sports and sports-like competitions you can't just glance at the field and see who is winning. You have to look at the scoreboard. I think accurate scoring is certainly something to strive for, and something we have a right to expect.
I don't think I would list 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2011 as good years for spectators. The games required some real explaining to understand. I remember a parent asking me "Why aren't they just picking up that white tube?" at the Championships in 2011. 2005 and 2011 were undoubtedly our two best years in terms of the quality of our robots performance they were not particularly spectator friendly games. And the minibot issues in 2011 pretty much disqualify it from any discussion of well done scoring in my mind. By the Championships 2004 was pretty much a race to see which side could get two robots to hang. 2010, 2012 and 2013 were all easier to understand and follow, endgames notwithstanding. Yes I agree that you could get a good approximation of the score by glancing at the field, but really that means you could tell if one side was obviously winning. I think that in 2012, 2013 and 2014 when one side is obviously winning it is pretty obvious to someone watching as well.
As for scoring errors, it is my general sense that there have been plenty of years where there were at least as many matches where the winners changed after the end of the match due to fouls and/or scoring changes. Last year there were certainly many more scoring changes after the end of the match. From 2010 - 2013 we have co-hosted and off season tournament, and I have been either the head referee, the announcer or the MC each year. So I have been on the sidelines watching a whole competition (not involved at all in coaching my team) and all of those years we had issues. In particular I feel as though this year a larger proportion of the penalties are being assessed as they happen. This is good, as it gives teams a better sense of the actual score and allows them to change strategy. It is bad because it gives the referee scorekeepers (since they are playing both roles) more to do and the system is not necessarily well set up to allow this.
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