scoring problems

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Regardless of the lap counter, it was stated that humans WOULD be counting from day 1, and from the sounds of it, they have not.

The scorekeeper training includes manual counting of all scoring (that is -- referees press buttons for scoring events and the computers tally up the answer). Refs were certainly scoring at both regionals I worked, and the ones I've seen Webcast. Are there really regionals where refs are NOT using the scoring boxes? Perhaps a ref would chime in to comment on referee training?

The scorekeeper's display includes both the automatic lap counting and the referee lap counts. The total used in calculating the score is the referee count -- not the auto count. To be honest with you, I don't even know if the lap totals displayed on the audience screen used the auto or ref lap counts. I was too busy to pay much attention. The teams seemed satisfied as long as the totals were right in the final score. In Seattle, we didn't use the auto counts for anything -- Fred's word was Law.