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Originally Posted by JBotAlan
This is perhaps the most perplexing of the field faults for me, mostly because I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how you mess this up.
Does anyone know of a legitimate reason the real-time score should ever be negative? The rules have always been pretty clear on the issue of negative scores...granted, the rule says "Final score" but I still think that displaying a negative score does nothing but cause confusion.
Jacob
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There apparently are two versions of the score system. At least at some locations in Week 1, DOGMA penalties were decremented from the score as they happened. I saw a -3 score on the display at Kettering.
I understand that other events reported the DOGMA penalties after the match, which also caused confusion. The referee would confirm the score, the announcer would say, "No penalties" - and then there were 3 penalties appearing on the screen. Only the scorekeeper could see the DOGMA penalties separately.