Scoring incorrect

[Daniel Bathgate]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

It's just about impossible for a Scorekeeper to display the wrong score. The scorekeeper doesn't enter laps or hurdles, they are done automatically based on counters and the data entry pads held by the referees. The only time the scorekeeper actually changes the scoring is by entering the number of penalties and G14 bonus scores at the end of the match, or by entering corrections to the lap scores (which the refs give to the scorekeeper). In this year's game, there is no scoring actually done by the scorekeepers. So, "putting the final score up" incorrectly can only be done if the scorekeepers don't wait for adjustments from the referees before pushing the "commit score" button. This would only happen once! Not to be a "blame them" kind of person, but in "Overdrive" any scoring mistakes would most likely be with the refs or the electronics, since the scorekeepers would have to really, really try to display any score other than what the refs intended.

Rick "Trained scorekeeper" TYler

If that is so, how come our alliance's score before it was corrected in our first qualification match was odd? One note: SVR did not use the IR lap counters and was counting all laps by hand, and the scorekeeper requested to see the list of red laps again to correct the score. I'm sure the counting laps as one point each wasn't intentional by any party, so it is certainly possible for the scorekeeper to misscore a game (especially early on Friday).

Perhaps a good practice would be for all teams to pay extra attention to the score of their first match on Friday to help make the rest of the matches go smoothly and correctly.