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How will the balls be scored?

As simple of a question as this may seem I am unclear as to exactly how the balls will be scored. I basically understand the center goal has some counter to know when a ball has passed through the exit chute but I am more concerned with the lower side goals. With balls being scored from the field and being removed by the human players and re introduced to the game this eliminates just counting up the number of balls at the end of the match. I assume it is impossible for the referees to keep track of all the balls in play at one time and manually count the balls that are scored into the lower goals. We are allowed "incidental incursion" into the goals by up to 3" (Rule <G21>) but must not activate the ball counting system. Does anyone know the specifics of the "ball counting system". Was this discussed or demonstrated at the kickoff in NH? Our remote kickoff only had a 1/4 field plywood mock-up. At first I assumed that the "ball counting system" would be a light beam type system but I don't see how that would work accurately in this game. Balls may be "fired" into the goal at high enough speeds to fool the sensor, a continuous string of 10 balls may "flow" into the goal end to end without much of a light gap at and unknown velocity, or even two or three balls may enter side by side and only be "seen" as one ball breaking the light beam at a time. IIRC in 2004 the balls did not score any points as they passed through the lower chutes, they were only passing them to the human player to score into the field goals.

Does anyone know the specifics of how the lower side goals "ball counting system" works?
 


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