Pedestal Delays

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Hoover

Last year with all the Frisbees flying there was little hope of live scoring. But this year come on. If they scored a ball even every 15 seconds how hard can that be? Every time we turned our heads to the score board and saw it react the way we expected. Where did all the extra points come from in the final scoring? Our alliance, people in the audience, they'd all be scowling at the score board so it not just me. But it is our fault for not going to the question box.

As a referee at Mt. Olive, you're just totally overexagerrating the parity between live scoring and actual scoring. Here are the only situations in which the final score would be 'vastly different' from the live scoring:
1. Fouls
2. A last second cycle input
3. The very few times where a cycle was inputted incorrectly (which, to me at least, only happened once).

To say that a significant amount of unexplained extra points showed up on the board after the match is absolutely wrong. And if an alliance is scoring a ball every 15 seconds? That makes it even harder for the refs.

Speaking with fellow refs, 99% of the time there was a delay (even as small as 3 seconds) in putting in the livescore was to just last minute check to make sure everything is right. Would you rather us rush to input scores and mess them up? (which I admittedly did once, but noticed it and ensured the score was corrected).