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Re: AZ Regionals: Incorrect Scoring?

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Originally Posted by Bluesky55J
I did scoring and Field control at NJ regional. man did i have problems. we had to delay the alliance picking so that we could figure out where our data base had made a computing error. Then once we got into the Quarter finals CRASH We had no elimination tree. we had no scoring cards. and the computer itself crashed at least 4 or 5 times. The system would keep saying that no matter how the matches ended that the Blue alliance would always advance. and then we could not use real time scoring. they would not link to the computers. Then i had to manually punch in the team numbers and make my own half baked system of quarter all the way to the final matches. talk about a pain. i had to score every match as qualifying match 1. and every time the score was showed on the big screen the team numbers where wrong even if i manually punched them in. it was a crazy time on my end. its a wonder i got the field going some times!
We had similar problems at Detroit, in fact I think they were as bad if not worse than the previous weekend at Great Lakes (same field kit). Thankfully we kept a offline system (Dr. Joe's Excel Sheet) running continuously throughout the qualification matches. At each break we audited the data and scoring between the two systems. All worked well until Sat morning, when we had to re-enter DQ's into the FIRST system. Alliance selection went well, then during quarter finals we suffered the same failures listed above. On a positive note, the field control worked better this week, buzzers and bells sounded at the appropriate times. Many thanks to Nick Wagers and Keith Jones (Volunteers) for keeping the two systems up to date and correct during conditions, that were at times extremely stressful.


My suggestion to all scorers is to use Dr. Joe's Spreadsheet (Available in the White Pages Section). Many thanks to Dr. Joe, the sheet made auditing of the main db much easier and increased our confidence in the system.

Cheers,

Ben Tower
05 GLR Field Manager
05 Detroit Field Manager