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Old Wed Feb 11, 2009, 03:20pm
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When white stole the ball, blue continued to count down, but instead of "3... 2... 1..." with the ellipses representing 1 second of elapsed time, they went "3-2-1", all within about a half-second.

That caused white to shoot the ball prematurely, when in reality, they still had ~ 2 seconds left.

There is no visible clock in men's leagues games here; the league doesn't get to use the HS clocks. They play running time 25min halves and stop clock in the last 2 minutes if the gap is < 16 points.

Do you think maybe you left out a little bit of info in your first post?
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Old Wed Feb 11, 2009, 03:43pm
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Do you think maybe you left out a little bit of info in your first post?
I thought about it, but I am working at the same time, and was hoping that the ... and - would show the difference in the counting down. Even with a visible clock, there is no need to attempt to deceive. Just mho.
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Old Wed Feb 11, 2009, 04:29pm
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I thought about it, but I am working at the same time, and was hoping that the ... and - would show the difference in the counting down. Even with a visible clock, there is no need to attempt to deceive. Just mho.
Must be a Canadian thing.

Or is it Canadien?
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