I witnessed this happen this week at a weekly 9-ball tournament.
So I'm sitting at a table playing my match and another players girlfriend is sitting at the table watching her boyfriend play a race to 3 9-ball match.
The whole match he was going off about how 9-ball is a luck game and his girlfriend told him he probably shouldn't play in 9-ball tournaments anymore because he gets so upset if everything doesn't go his way. Eventually an argument starts on his table about what the score is. It was either 2-2 or 2-1 (the score before the last game, so the argument was over if the match was finished) depending upon which player you asked. So the one player goes over to his girlfriend and asks her what the score is. She responds that she has been keeping track of it the whole time on the digitalpool app (with which the tournnament is being managed) and that it was 2-1 so the match wasn't over. So they play the 'final' game and the other player eventually wins the match.
So I eventually win my match and go up to report and the other guy is up there. The TD asks him what the score was to enter it into the app. He tells him that it was being scored by the other players girlfriend. Well the TD looks at his computer and says she wasn't scoring anything because if she was he would have had the score already.....
I tell him at that point that I'm happy he beat that guy because he was acting like a b*tch the whole match in the first place and then tried to pull a cheap cheat move.
So be careful with this kind of computerized scoring and always keep track with quarters or the wire the score because its too easy to manipulate the score unless both players are using the app at the same time.
So I'm sitting at a table playing my match and another players girlfriend is sitting at the table watching her boyfriend play a race to 3 9-ball match.
The whole match he was going off about how 9-ball is a luck game and his girlfriend told him he probably shouldn't play in 9-ball tournaments anymore because he gets so upset if everything doesn't go his way. Eventually an argument starts on his table about what the score is. It was either 2-2 or 2-1 (the score before the last game, so the argument was over if the match was finished) depending upon which player you asked. So the one player goes over to his girlfriend and asks her what the score is. She responds that she has been keeping track of it the whole time on the digitalpool app (with which the tournnament is being managed) and that it was 2-1 so the match wasn't over. So they play the 'final' game and the other player eventually wins the match.
So I eventually win my match and go up to report and the other guy is up there. The TD asks him what the score was to enter it into the app. He tells him that it was being scored by the other players girlfriend. Well the TD looks at his computer and says she wasn't scoring anything because if she was he would have had the score already.....
I tell him at that point that I'm happy he beat that guy because he was acting like a b*tch the whole match in the first place and then tried to pull a cheap cheat move.
So be careful with this kind of computerized scoring and always keep track with quarters or the wire the score because its too easy to manipulate the score unless both players are using the app at the same time.
