Electronic Scoring Comes to North Carolina

This Fall, our LBC in North Carolina implemented electronic scoring in amateur boxing competitions.  Electronic scoring has been implemented in many states and at all National tournaments, so it made total sense for our LBC to move towards it.  There was a training on August 5th at the Warrior Saints Boxing Gym in Fayetteville.  With electronic scoring, coaches and boxers can know their scores in real time after each round.  It helps boxers and coaches definitively know whether they are winning or losing a bout and adds a layer of transparency to the process.  According to Elouise Joseph, our supervisor of officials, the set up of the system is tricky and a bit cumbersome and a lot to figure out, but from an officials perspective, it is much easier than paper scoring.  You give the winning boxer a 10 and the losing boxer a number between 7-9 and click submit.  If there is a tie at the end of the bout each judge submits who they think won.  As soon as all judges have entered their scores, coaches in each corner can see twhat each judge has given their boxers and adjust their instruction accordingly.  I was able to try it out first hand in September at a show in Fayetteville and was very easy to oeprate. It seemed to increase the action of the bouts in the 2nd and 3rd rounds I think it is a huge positive and move forward for our organization and I hope to be able to learn more about setting up the system to help support our team better.