Overdrive Reffing Sans-buttons?

[Tim Baird]

Hey guys,
Has anyone run an off-season so far this year without having the hand-held units for the refs? If so, what did you do/use?

I'm head ref for Mayhem in Merrimack next weekend and we're just trying to get prepared in case Murphy shows up instead of a 100% equipped field (been there, done that).

Our plan so far is to make up 4 white boards (2 for each side) where one will be for line crossing and one will be for ball hurdles/rolls just like the hand-helds on the official fields. We'll make a spread-sheet of sorts with permanent marker and then make tally-marks with dry erase markers and add up the scores at the end of each match, do the math, and then display.

Does anybody have any better ideas just in case this happens? Thanks!