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Originally Posted by Chris is me
If you don't think real time scoring has a direct and important impact on strategy and match play, and that losing such a critical feature of the field isn't grounds for a field fault and replay, I find it hard to believe you've ever coached or driven in a match of Stronghold.
If the defense crossing lights went out, would you call that a field fault? Of course you would. But what is that displaying to you? Essentially, just a more abstract version of the real time score.
If the on field match timer went out, would you call that a field fault? I would hope we would all agree that the match timer is an essential part of the game and that it is continuously needed information.
The real time score is exactly the same. If you're a competitive team this year, you were keeping your eyes on it all match. Deciding whether to shoot high or low, deciding whether to play offense or defense, deciding whether or not to go for that very last ball or make the conservative play and go for the batter early in the end game. It should be plainly obvious how strategically valuable and important real time score is.
Situations like these should be a replay, every single time they occur. No questions asked. I legitimately cannot understand the argument against it.
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I'm mostly flummoxed as to why they played through when everyone knew the live scoring was boned during autonomous.There was a window where the FTA or head referee could have hit the foghorn, and it wasn't after the score was posted.
We went to district events where we couldn't see live scoring and were told to deal with it. I recognize that real time scoring was a huge need this year but it's important to recognize that this replay is just the most obvious showing of the inconsistency I hope is fixed in future games. Challenge points, scale points, and capture bonuses being added at inconsistent times and not providing an ability for all 6 drive teams to see the real time scoring at all events are bad things that were dumb.