Originally Posted by NewNCref
BktBallRef's post about a timer trying to argue with him reminded me of something that happened to me a week ago.
VG game. At the end of the first halves, the teams are exiting the gym, and we are waiting for the teams to leave so that we can leave. As we're standing there, V's Head Coach calls my partner over to the table, and informs him that the official scorer has left the table and the official book is gone with her. We find AD, and AD finds the score keeper, who has taken the book with her to the concession stand to get a snack.
After discussion at half time, none of us knew of any penalty associated with the book NOT staying at the table, but also realized that this severely compromised the potential accuracy of the book. With that said, we came out early from half, and had the home and visiting scorebooks confer, and they both determined that they had all the same information. Our plan had been that if they differed, the guest book would have to become the official book, since the official book is required to stay at the table at all times. So home book remained the official book, and everything was fine.
As we're clearing up the last of it and I'm about to leave the table, the visiting scorekeeper says, "Hey ref, you know that's supposed to be a technical." I said, "No, it's not!" Scorekeeper says, "I don't know about that, I'm going to have to Google it on my phone...but don't worry, I won't do it during the game. I already got in trouble earlier this year for being on my phone while scorekeeping." I couldn't help but chuckle at that one.
So, did we get it right? Is there a different way you would have handled this?
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