[antidan444]

Jared,

While I agree with you that comebacks were a little easier to do under traditional scoring, you'd be surprised how many actually still happen. I've seen leads of as many as 10 points in high school games (which only go to 25) vanish, and it's not rare at all for teams to come back from 4 or 5 down.

I think rally scoring gives the game a faster, fresher feel. It seemed like every third or fourth match I covered under the old system dragged endlessly with tons of side-outs and not much scoring at all, so games took half an hour or more (and matches, if they went 5 games, could go three hours). In rally scoring this doesn't happen (well, unless the final score is 55-53 LOL), games keep moving toward a conclusion at all times and generally take 20 minutes tops (and 5-game matches are often done in under 2 hours).