This was my workstation to start the day. I woke up at a quarter to six in the morning, drove with friends to just outside Vancouver, and from 8:30 am I was here operating the scoreboard. The laptop worked brilliantly and there werenāt any data entry issues (at first).
Due to the lack of NSOs for the day, we had three skeleton crews for the balance of the day: One head NSO/jam timer, one scoreboard operator (me), one penalty tracker, and two penalty box timers. Despite we also had referee crews lacking OPRs, everyone was surprised with how well things went.
The only problem with the layout of this particular track is the SO is on turn 1 of the roller derby track so we couldnāt see the jammerās number until they skated in front of us. After seeing enough of the skaters, I made mental notes about particular skaters so I knew who was on the track at any given time:Ā āThe tall oneā,Ā āscary makeupā, andĀ āwears glassesā were a few I listed.
We used this track for the Finals, in part because this computer was more reliable than the other one we had. After a dayās worth of bouts, it began to tire with all the information backlogged in CRG. I needed to double check with the jam timer a couple of times to see if we were in sync.
During the third bout, CRG didnāt come out of lineup into the jam when I started the timer on the scoreboard. There were forty seconds missing from the start of the jam when I noticed the error, so I pressedĀ āStart Jamā, subtracted the lost the time from the lineup timer to the jam clock, which also fixed the period clock. No one noticed, so yay š
The problem with two bouts running in the same gym space on adjacent tracks is whistles not being heard or prematureĀ āstoppingā of jams. I almost got caught once; thank goodness forĀ āUn-stop jamā š³ LOL š
