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Alphabet Soup
Posted By: Stick In Response To: Alphabet Soup (Bob Glass)
Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, at 1:30 a.m.
I agree there's too much going on online if that's possible. My standard response while sitting in Gridgammon when someone tells me we need to play our match is the same as yours, "What for?" They fill me in and I play but with so much going on my heart isn't in to it. I don't even care, I'm just shoving checkers around hoping almost that I don't win so I don't have to play more matches. The only reply most get out of me in an email is "I'll be in Gridgammon as much as possible, message me there, if I'm around we'll play." If I'm not, I forfeit and honestly don't care. I feel no attachment to this tournament or that tournament because there's so much going on I can't even keep track of what I'm supposed to be interested in or why.
I have no clue whatsoever why we refer to times when scheduling matches by anything other than UTC (GMT, same thing). It seems so much easier to me to make this the standard. Everyone can figure out how that relates to them and when I say let's play at 15:00 UTC you will remember that you are UTC -4 because you use it in every tournament. Now, if instead you schedule on match PST or EST or CST or wtfe you're constantly figuring out what time that really means to you. Adopt UTC.
I agree with Bob Glass (did anyone ever think I'd type that phrase?) that we need a centralized easy way to access things. A web site that combines the best of all the other web sites and takes a lot of this nuisance out of the game and keeps it as fun as possible. It's not supposed to be work when you play in an event and right now it is. I recommended basically this idea to the usbgf for our web site etc... the only problem is the man power/time to implement the idea. Fingers crossed - I have some ideas, now someone with knowledge and motivation needs to take over.
Stick
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