Pickleball Scoring: Traditional vs Rally Scoring
I think there is a place for both types of scoring:
Traditional Pickleball Scoring
Pros
Provide a small variation of risk taking across first, second server and receivers: Since a serving team has two chances to hold the serve and win points, the first server can take a bit more risk if necessary
Games can be longer: If you are not sharing your court, a long game with teams of similar skills can be fun. My longest game that I remembered ran 28 minutes.
Cons
Games can be longer: in Open Rec play, particularly with a larger groups that is waiting for court time, it can be undesirable.
It is not easy for beginner to learn the system - I have started teaching only rally scoring in my 2 hour intro workshop: Players need some way to keep score and I find that completely new players can pick up rally scoring in minutes.
Need to stack
How to do traditional Pickleball scoring.
Rally Scoring
Pros
Games move faster. When people are waiting for court, this is a way to share the resource
Easier to learn!
No need to stack
Cons
Lost the uniqueness of traditional pickleball play — Even as I have only played for 1.5 years, I do enjoy a long traditionally scored Pickleball battle.