This doesn't make any sense, why can I only call this function in certain areas?

Hello everyone, I made a function that awards a currency called skillpoints when ever it is called. The input for the function requires a player and the amount of skill points you want to reward. However even though I defined the function, it throws a nil value. I pretty much setup where I wanted to add skill points as the same where I already added them and they work.

Here is the nil error:

23:05:40.336 - ServerScriptService.MainScript:573: attempt to call global 'awardskillpoints' (a nil value)
23:05:40.337 - Stack Begin
23:05:40.338 - Script 'ServerScriptService.MainScript', Line 573
23:05:40.338 - Stack End

For some reason it is saying my function, known as "awardskillpoints" is non existent. Here is where I want my function to work.

local localtimer = roundtimer
while localtimer > 0 do
	wait(1)
	localtimer = localtimer - 1
	timertag.Value = localtimer
	aliveplayers = {}
	killeralive = false
	officeralive = false
	subofficeralive = false
	civilianalive = false
	for _, player in pairs(players) do
		if player ~= nil then
			local character = player.Character
			if character ~= nil then
				local alivetag = character:FindFirstChild("AliveTag")
				local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
				if alivetag ~= nil and humanoid ~= nil and humanoid.Health > 0 then
					if player == killer then
						killeralive = true
					elseif player == officer then
					officeralive = true
					elseif player == subofficer then
						subofficeralive = true
					elseif player == civilian then
						civilianalive = true
					end
					table.insert(aliveplayers, player)
				end
			end
		end
	end
	for _, player in pairs(players) do
		if player ~= nil and player == civilian and civilianalive == true and localtimer == 290 then
			awardskillpoints(player, 1) -- This is being nil
		event:FireClient(player, "GotPoints", "1")
	end
end
	-- if one player is alive, or killer is dead.
	if #aliveplayers <= 1 or killeralive == false then
		break
	end
end

Here is my function:

function awardskillpoints(player, skillpoints)
	if player ~= nil and skillpoints ~= nil and skillpointdebounce == false then
		skillpointdebounce = true
		local mydata = playerdata[player.userId]
		if mydata ~= nil then
			mydata.skillpoints = mydata.skillpoints + skillpoints
			local skillpointsvalue = player:FindFirstChild("Skill Points")
			if skillpointsvalue ~= nil then
				skillpointsvalue.Value = mydata.skillpoints
				delay(0.00001, function ()
					skillpointdebounce = false
			end)
		end
	end
	end
end
end

Finally, here are the parts that work calling this function.

	for _, player in pairs(players) do
			if matchresults == "KillerWins" and player == killer then
				awardskillpoints(player, 4)
				awardwin(player)
				awardxp(player, 100)
			elseif matchresults == "CiviliansWin" and player ~= killer and player ~= officer and player ~= subofficer then
				awardskillpoints(player, 5)
				awardwin(player)
				awardxp(player, 100)
			elseif matchresults == "OfficerWins" and player == officer then
				awardskillpoints(player, 5)
				awardwin(player)
				awardxp(player, 100)
			elseif matchresults == "SuvOfficerWins" and player == subofficer then
				awardskillpoints(player, 6)
				awardwin(player)
				awardxp(player, 100)
			elseif player == killer or player == officer or player == civilian or player == subofficer then
				awardxp(player, 50)
			else
				awardskillpoints(player, 0)
			end
		end
end

In this section of script, the function works perfectly no issues at all.

Here is another area where I used it.

for _, player in pairs(aliveplayers)do
	delay(1.2, function()
		awardskillpoints(player, 1)
	end)

just a section, but this worked fine too.

Any ideas will help, Not that I expect this question to be answered since more than 3/4 of my questions seemed to have been ignored.

Thank you in advanced.

You could try to do what i always do. Place all your functions before the script so before putting the entire rest of your script just slap all your functions there.