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Originally Posted by sseltser
Are you proposing having one person to do all 4 tasks, so that there is less distraction?
Or maybe we should separate the people at the table and have the shot clock operator sit in one corner and the home team's scorer in another so that they aren't tempted to be social?
Or maybe we can have them all sit in their own plexiglass cubes so that they can see the action and hear whistles, but not talk to each other?
Seriously, is it really that hard to pay attention to a game for 32 minutes, that, at most schools, you are getting paid for?
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What I'm meaning is that the personnel become such good friends/buddies that they want to chat to catch up on current affairs.
Last year I got into the habit of having the table setup as such: Center of table is the clock/scoreboard & the home/official book. The visitor's book next to the home/official book (even if that meant the visitor book being next to the home bench). The shot clock next to the clock/scoreboard.
During 4A Regionals, the books were next to their repective benches & there were a few times were discripencies happened, due to no communication between the books. (Table setup pre-set by tournament director).