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Need to know for your first ABT tournament
Posted By: Chuck Bower In Response To: Need to know for your first ABT tournament (Dan Pelton)
Date: Saturday, 18 October 2008, at 6:18 p.m.
If you want to watch matches, its generally ok, but you don't want to say anything about the play. It's not your job to point out irregularities, incorrect plays, you just have to be a "fly on the wall". If you do have a question and can remember the position or take a picture, you can always ask the player afterward about their play. Don't take a bunch of pictures tho, leave that for your own matches.
For me, even today, watching matches is one of the fun things about a Ty. I've only been asked to leave ("gotten banned") once in my lifetime of tournament BG. Particularly the better players are used to it, and those are probably the ones you prefer watching, anyway.
One thing I disagree with Dan about is taking pictures. It's one thing to take a picture during your own match. However, if you take a picture during someone else's match you could be providing information to the players which they don't deserve, i.e. "wake up; this is a tricky position...." That likely is unfair to one or the other. Even scribbling down a situation can convey information (and I know this for a fact because it has HELPED me before, when an bystander wrote down a position I was looking at!) Asking after the match (particularly asking the winner :) is OK, assuming they have the time to talk.
Above all, HAVE FUN!!!
Great advice too many people fail to follow. Just remember: "In the whole wide world, the next best thing to winning at backgammon is losing at backgammon." :)
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