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DEAD CUBE RULE

Posted By: Stick
Date: Monday, 4 September 2017, at 7:33 p.m.

In Response To: DEAD CUBE RULE (Phil Simborg)

I'm not missing any points. I understood what you were saying I'm still saying it makes the application of the rule wrong in this specific situation in my opinion. You've admitted that if you were playing some fish heads up and this happened you would more than likely let it slide so you have a sliding scale for this rule also. You've also told us what a bad taste it left in the mouth for almost everyone else in the chouette and that one top player left the game. The one person who seemed to agree with you just happened to be on your team and would benefit from it? Take all these details as a whole and you have a very weak case.

It would be very easy for top players such as myself, such as MCG, to live with such a rule hard coded just like it would be easier and far more equitable for me to live with legal moves not being the precedent. I am far, far, far less likely for something like this to happen to me than Player B is.

It seems to me in many games/sports there are sportsmanship questions and someone always totes out the slippery slope argument of "Well, if we let this go what do we do in this other situation? Or that other situation?" In chouettes you already play on that slippery slop and where to draw the line shouldn't be that hard but apparently it is. Are you punishing people for fast rolling? How about moving ambiguously? Have you ever used pen and paper to figure something out during a game like a settlement? Ever has someone say "No matter what you roll I'm doubling!" and then you roll your joker and they laugh it off and don't cube? There are plenty of examples that are against the rules that you allow to slide already. In this case clearly the vast majority were violently against your actions.

Penalty points are totally different and I'm not sure why you'd bring them up but fwiw I agree with you.

I'm not trying to be a nice guy. It seems like a default of good sportsmanship given the circumstance. There's no other way to put it.

Stick

Messages In This Thread

• DEAD CUBE RULE
  ross gordon -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 12:41 p.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 2:06 p.m.
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      Phil Simborg -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 2:37 p.m.
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        Stick -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 12:23 a.m.
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          Frank Talbot -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 4:35 a.m.
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            Stick -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 5:53 a.m.
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              Phil Simborg -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 3:49 p.m.
              • Penalty points
                Bob Koca -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 3:56 p.m.
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                Stick -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 7:33 p.m.
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                  Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 5 September 2017, at 12:12 a.m.
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    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 2:07 p.m.
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      Michael Petch -- Thursday, 7 September 2017, at 7:24 p.m.
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    Phil Simborg -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 2:18 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 2:21 p.m.
      • DEAD CUBE RULE--don't understand Koca
        Phil Simborg -- Sunday, 3 September 2017, at 3:36 p.m.
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      JohnK -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 1:21 p.m.
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        Art Grater -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 9:55 p.m.
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      Rich Munitz -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 5:16 p.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 5:26 p.m.
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    Stick -- Monday, 4 September 2017, at 12:26 a.m.