ball counter

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by Master Dictator

I have to tell you this is a horrible way to go. I am not complaining but I feel that it is too hard for judges to count so fast. I am with team 528 and at the Philly Regional twice it happened once in finals that the judges were way off.

One match we played our allinace scored 93 points because we had 2 dumpers and 1 shooter. Us and another team, I think 303 were putting in 30 at a time. The counter say 94 and the judges amitted that the balls were coming in so fast they could not count so they made a number up.. happened to be 20 since the 2 corner bots were both empty. We lost by 10 then and since there are no replays they still watched the video and found out we really did score 93 but did not change anything. Oh well. History is history can't change it.

But on this note I feel it really is too hard for judges to count the balls comming in

What match are you talking about? 303 was not at Philly. The only bot at Philly that dumped about 30 balls at once was Chuck (84) and you never played with him. Your high score was 57, which is not even close to 93. You never lost a match by exactly 10 pts.

It is difficult for the refs to do a hand count and they do make mistakes. However, these mistakes aren't as bad as you describe