[fmf_lu]

I would like to bring to your attention an unhappy incident that took place today.

I supposed there was ordinary tournament:
3 rounds, 3 boards in every round: 21 minute.
We had played 2 boards, and we had 10 minutes for last board.
I had problems and therefore I was thinking, and inform opponents:
time enough.

Nevertheless the opponent called TD, who excluded me from tournament.
I was surprised:
- Why? Does TD promote nervous play?

[blackshoe]

I expect you'd have to ask the TD that question.

[babalu1997]

fmf_lu, on Jun 5 2009, 01:14 PM, said:

I would like to bring to your attention an unhappy incident that took place today.

I supposed there was ordinary tournament:
3 rounds, 3 boards in every round: 21 minute.
We had played 2 boards, and we had 10 minutes for last board.
I had problems and therefore I was thinking, and inform opponents:
time enough.

Nevertheless the opponent called TD, who excluded me from tournament.
I was surprised:
- Why? Does TD promote nervous play?

Well there are actually games being held where one can suffer trick penalties if the opps report slow play.

As far as i am aware, the bbo program doe not record the time between bids and play,so one may end up being victimized for the crime of thinking.

I in fact inquired, I was told :

"Slow play now seems to endanger the popularity of the game."

"A survey of duplicate players reported that the biggest irritant is not rudeness or even complicated systems. It is slow play."


This was, omg, a 6 min board tourney, here our opps complained that " we alerted too much".

I bet alerts are quite the irritant too.

I don't know who took the survey, but surely, i just stopped playing the said game. lol