[Archers] RE: Too many useless Royal Round Scores

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

To answer for Gregge, since he hasn't yet:

>On the other hand.....  What is all of this
>about 'approving the scores', that Gregge refers to.

I happen to know a bit about how the backend of the score system is 
designed, and it is thus:  While many different marshals have been given 
the ability to enter the scores into the database.  They don't immediately 
go 'live'.  The Scorekeeper has a final 'checkpoint' to 'approve' the 
scores.  So that the scorekeeper has actually seen the scores (Else he's 
not much of a scorekeeper, huh?)  And to give them a quick 'human eye-ball 
check' for them being ok.  Seeing if the event name typed in makes 
sense.  Checking if perhaps someone's name was entered wrongly (such as 
happened to Ted), and looking for someone who was perhaps mistaking entered 
as getting a 99 on the speed round.  (Which is if true, said person needs 
mentioning various powers that be for their skill ... or if not true ... 
seeing what happened and fixing it.)

So anyway, for good reason, even though other marshals can enter scores to 
the scorekeeper.  Only the scorekeeper 'puts' the scores in the database.

So he has to approve each one.  And this is then where it comes up, that he 
may be sitting there approving a dozen scores for a single person, when 
only 3 could ever count towards their average.

Siegfried

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