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I was the red-side scoring ref for the match with the bounce-in replay. Even though we had said that pulling balls from the pedestal was on the honor system, I tried to punch up the score in each cycle as fast as possible to give the human players that extra level of comfort that they were being fair when they saw the pedestal light up. That ball bounced in; I punched the score; the screen reset; I watch the screen for a second or two to ensure that it actually took the button pushes, and then I saw the human player across from me calling for the ball. I tried to flag that it was scored (but honestly not effectively enough and quickly enough), and before anyone saw or heard me, the ball was back in play, and the human player at the other end of the field saw the lighted pedestal and got the new ball. It was impossible to recover from there forward with two balls in play to come up with what the score should-be in a fair manner.

With the length of the event, I think it's pretty understandable that we had players on the field who didn't recall that nuance from the drivers meeting. I think it's pretty understandable that we had many volunteers who were not familiar with the off-nominal rules situations and had less experience in the game than most of the players, so when they see a player calling for something, they would tend to react.