[Brian C]

Looks like there are a few regionals with "issues" that seem to have a common thread.

At the SBPLI Regional the active on screen scoring was attempted for a few of the early matches on Friday but was discarded quickly as it was not reliable info. It was never used for the rest of the regional. Not a real biggie but I know that with the scoring of this year's game many of the on field coaches had come to rely on this as a good guide to where they stood.

The ranking system was never updated after the 4th match and from Friday afternoon until literally 5 minutes before alliance selection on Saturday there was no ranking information available to the teams. Once the seeding was up the alliance selections proceeded only to be stopped after the 4th seed picked because it was discovered that a match had not been entered into the system and this affected the 5 - 8 listing of the seeded teams. As you can imagine there was a pretty good level of confusion during all of this.

To their credit the person who made the mistake, discovered it and then fixed it got on the mike and explained what happened and took the responsibility for the error. I'm sorry I don't know their name but it takes alot of character to publicly admit you made a mistake.

IMHO I believe the Regional volunteers did a great job. I do know they were understaffed on Saturday and about 5 or 6 of members of team 1468 stepped up and helped out for the rest of the regional along with members of quite a few other teams.

While this may not be specific enough for Dr. Joe's original missive the scoring and seeding information problems appear to be a common problem this year.

Oh well, Like we keep telling the J-birds team "adapt and overcome"