New Rule 4-48 and a Visiting Team Scorer at the Table

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Your games don't have a scorer for the visiting team sitting at the table? That surprises me.

Many times the only people sitting at the tables which are often small are the timer, scorer the announcer. Many tables are not big enough to have the anyone else sitting there in many cases. Even at the big schools with the better courts and facilities. Both home and visiting teams have someone keeping track of recording of the game with someone on their own bench. It almost never causes an issue because if something is wrong, they inform us and we correct it. Most home books have integrity and if they make a mistake they correct it and it almost never is an issue even during tournaments where there is not "home book" present, the official book is a person assigned by the tournament. The problems I have run into were because they were sitting next to each other and arguing over every detail or what happens. Usually, in my experience, the issue is what is on the scoreboard and what actually happened. Almost never is there a big discrepancy in scorebooks that is brought to our attention. Unless you have a tournament or some big table, the scorebook people sit on the bench for the team or they sit behind the bench. Almost never comes up as an issue anywhere at least in my experience. And this was before and after the rule was changed to have both books were "required" to sit at the table.

Peace