I think ball scoring is problematical, and it is part of the game. Since it makes it harder for everyone it is fair, but I don't like the chains for this reason. If you made your canon exactly like FIRST said, Firing a poof ball exactly at 12 mps and hitting the goal smack dead in the center, your ball would tend to bounce back. So the better you aimed, the more you were penalized. This just ain't right. I think FIRST was well aware of this problem, but it was just impossible to modify the goals of all the fields of play once competition began. Then you'd have the situation where different FOPs would play differently, and that would be even less fair.

The automatic scoring, particularly in autonomous mode seems buggy. I.e. How can you score just 10 balls low and get 23 points? Like wise how can you score 23 points if you only aim high in autonomous mode? I know the scoring delays in SVR were because the refs were confirming the counts by hand after each match. Don't know if any match was decided by miscounting, but it can happen, and that's part of the game too.

My last gripe is the 'at the buzzer' rule. In my opinion if the ball is in the air when the light goes out it should count. Seems to me unfair that someone puts 5 balls into the goal in auto mode, but it takes a while for them to score, they should get all 15 points. I think the Cheesey Poofs had this problem. They put a lot of balls into the goal, but often they are under counted because they haven't gone through the slot before the possesion changes. (I don't feel sorry for them however.)