Scorekeeper horror stories

[Andy]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Anyone have any scorekeeper horror stories or disasters yet? In my match Wednesday night the Libero tracker had a hard time with the double switch.So much so that we had 5 or 6 delays where the R2 had to clean up the sheet.Only about 5 minutes on each incident but still took flow away from the match.

First HS assignment of the season last week. FR, JV, V matches. Get ready to start the FR match when I discover that the scorekeeper is a teacher at the school that has never kept a VB scorebook before. I ask him if he has at least had some training or watched somebody do it, he says yes and that he feels confident. OK...here we go. I am R2. After the third time in the first set that he buzzed and told me that we had an incorrect server (we didn't any of the times), I pretty much told him to just keep a running score and make sure that the scoreboard was right.

I will give him credit though, by the time we got into the V match, he was doing OK....I guess he just needed some repetition....