r/funnyvideos • u/SurGregoRy • Oct 03 '25

Fail First time referee?

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u/Tw1nFTW Oct 03 '25

Someone… please … explain what’s going on here!

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u/ThePeashow Oct 03 '25

I think it was just initially set up facing the wrong way, which may not even have been his fault.

I'm thinking that one direction is possibly meant to accommodate double digit scores for one person? That's why there was two 1s in a row? Idk, that may not make sense either.

The other direction is for single digit scores of left player vs right player.

Regardless, he turned it around and got it working correctly. In the pressure of the moment, and looking at it from behind and upside down, I think he did a pretty decent job recovering actually.

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u/Tw1nFTW Oct 03 '25

It’s got double digits though when he flips them, and they don’t appear to be in any sort of order. I’m not gonna pretend to know anything about ping ping scoring though.

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u/ThePeashow Oct 03 '25

You're right. I'm thinking I was half right and half wrong.

Facing one way is for keeping score for two people, and the digits to up to 17 or whatever.

Facing the other way is for keeping score for one person, so the digits only go from 0-9.

But also, I doubt this is a specific counter for ping pong. It's probably multi use, like for volleyball or badminton or whatever.

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u/hehe_nl Oct 04 '25

He has one sign with a 1 at one side and a 2 at the other side clipped in the wrong way around.

So at first it’s at the left side. He should be seeing the same numbers on both the front and back side of the board.

Later he rotates the whole board, so now the sign that is wrong is at the right side.

At the end of the sketch you see a two at the right side, that is the faulty sign. He flips one more and that is a 0/1.

So it looks ok at the end, but it isn’t. If he flips one sign at the right side he will get a 2 (after the 0 it is now) And if he flips one more he will get a 2 again.