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Re: AZ Regionals: Incorrect Scoring?
I am not a big fan of Hatch, especially knowing the politics around why they are doing the software this year but I have to give them credit for fixing several of the problems this past weekend. Before this past weekend buzzers and other sounds would go off randomly, it seemed the computers needed to be constantly rebooted, and the displays never seemed to work. Most importantly the rankings never worked before this weekend, they had this cool live scoring feature but couldn't do the simple thing of ranking teams.
This past weekend most of these were fixed. There were still bugs that have been there since the beginning like the clock not displaying correctly (i.e. it would stay on 42 seconds for 4 seconds then jump to 38), buzzer sounding a few seconds after the match is over (at least it isn't random anymore), the team numbers still not displaying correctly during eliminations. The biggest bug that annoys me now is on the rankings when the Hatch logo becomes animated everything else stops waiting for it, if I was Hatch I wouldn't want my logo on any of this software. I am sure there are other problems with the software but at least they are not as apparent as they were the first two weeks.
Now for my opinions: the bugs that still exist in the software should have been the only bugs the first weekend. If they didn't have live scoring or other features that did not affect the game play I wouldn't have minded as long as the other items worked. It seems Hatch did not have enough organization to realize what was more important and to implement that first then do the extra glitzy things later.
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