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Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

There were numerous problems with scoring at UCF, such that they reverted to manually counting balls during the match for the final tally. I don't know the details of how this was done or adjustments were made so I'd like to hear from some of the refs.

The autoscoring was used throughout the competition. The human tally just served as a backup. A few field reset people had those quik-tally clickers that they use with large event crowds, and they (2 or 3 resetters on EACH goal for redundancy check) would count the balls entering each goal (including each center). One of the referees was specially delegated to check with these counters to make sure that it correlated with the realtime system (which is why I switched sides on Saturday).

The few times where I saw a questionable score that I didn't believe was accurate, the final score was compared to the manual tally, and I was wrong on most of them - the autoscoring was just as reliable compared to the manual count. It was a wakeup call to me that I might not be the best counter when I'm busy watching robots and humans and everything else on the field, like most coaches and spectators are.

Edit: I estimate out of 20 questionable scores, I was wrong and the autoscore matched the manual score about 80% of the time.

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

However, if the realtime score is off by 20-30 points as was sometimes the case, it becomes a case where changing the score after the fact could cost us a match that we would have played differently had the score been correct.

Easy fix for that - play to win by as large a margin as possible. Either that or whoever is keeping an eye out on the scoreboard, take note of any large point jumps and be wary that they might not be accurate. The glitches are usually of the 10-20 point variety, and not the 1-10 variety.

Barring either of those, don't care if you win a match or not. It's just a game anyways.