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Originally posted by dlavery
So here is the question: can anyone think of a sport or game or event that has a fixed amount of game time (i.e. there is a game clock) and a running score, where the game is NOT stopped after each score? The only ones that I could come up with that were even close were boxing and full-contact karate; points are accumulated during the course of the fight, but not displayed to the audience or participants until the bout is over, so this is still an imperfect example. Can anyone come up with a better one?
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How about wrestling? The referee is out on the mat, right next to the participants, and signals scoring in real time. The score is then put on the board for all to see.
The difference between that and boxing is that the ref in a wrestling match is the absolute authority over whether a wrestler has scored or not, while a boxing match is scored by a panel of independant judges, who, in order to maintain objectivity, must be ignorant of each other's score.
That said, there's really too much going on in FIRST matches to have a single ref able to keep track of it all. The best plan would be to display an unofficial running score, like what was done on Einstien at nationals.