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Re: Buyers' remorse / Pig in a poke

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
You answered it yourself:



The game is okay. The existence of the fouls is okay. The thing that's not okay is the system by which the referees, using too-slow touch panels, are tasked with assessing not only fouls but scores as well.

If you must blame someone, blame the engineers who implemented that system. (But don't blame them too harshly, because they're working within the limitations of using the materials at hand.)
I blame whoever made the decision that dedicated scorers weren't needed and placed the extra work on the refs.
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