[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

At Waterloo Regional they decided they didnt like the lap counter on Thursday, and just counted all the laps by hand. Not being a ref I can't say it wouldn't have been a small pain in the butt, but nobody complained, that I knew of.

The Waterloo crew has built up a history of taking excruciating pains to "get it right."

I remember the 20 minute ref conference after Q2-4 in 2007 where they essentially did a forensic reconstruction of the match to figure out how a VERY strange double inadvertant self-spoil during a de-spoil should have correctly been scored. They initially announced the wrong score with wrong alliance winning, but retracted it immediately. After the score was corrected, the other alliance ended up winning 28-27. It took a lot of guts to reverse the decision on a deciding eliminations match, and by such a small margin. But they got it right... they did a great job.

I appreciated the fact that they manually counted laps at Waterloo, as well as kept track of hybrid scores on paper. Throughout all our matches, I knew when we picked up G22s and G42s without even looking at the refs. Without fail, the refs caught us each and every time. Never once were we broadsided by a penalty we didn't already know we earned.