USPSA shooters-Keep an eye on your score sheet

[igor]

Good IPSC practices in my experience:

The scorer is definitely to repeat exactly what the RO says for each target, loud, clear and in the exact same wording. And the time. One more good practice is to add a grand total in the margin once the columns have been totalled, as a double check to verify the right number of shots are in the sheet. As RO, I check the grand total and that there is a time, then I trust the scorer on the rest and initialize. The competitor initializes last.

Level 2 and up, there are check lists printed and posted towards the end of the match. A 15 min protest time to check the scores when all is ready, and it's prizes time. Usually the stats officer gets the results on the web the same night.

 

[71Commander]

I do the same when I'm the RO but at this match, I was just a shooter. They were training scorekeepers.

 

[chbrow10]

I was trained as a scorekeeper at the last match. It is not an intuitive job. It was hot, there were lots of people, and everyone wanted to move quickly. It was very helpful when the RO called the scores and I repeated it back to him. I felt a lot better when the shooter checked the scorecard after I scored it.

It is interesting that out of 18 shooters in the squad, there were only 4 folks that were willing to run the clipboard, and all of those but me were also running the timer. More folks should step up and help. I suppose that's a universal statement that can apply anywhere...

 

[SDC]

+1, chbrow. Like in everything else, 5% of the people end up doing 90% of the work in IPSC/USPSA. I found that working as an RO and scorekeeper actually ended up making me a better shooter, because I was able to see up close and personal exactly what worked and what didn't, the way to shoot a stage fast and smooth, how the different classes will usually have a different way of shooting a given stage, and so on.