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Clocks (lengthy)
Posted By: Evan In Response To: Clocks (lengthy) (Jason Lee)
Date: Sunday, 19 October 2008, at 10:37 p.m.
I feel maybe I didn't express the main point that I was trying to make with my anecdotes. Before I do, let me give you...
Anecdote 4: Someone borrows my board. After they finish their match, they simply leave it out on the table, don't bother putting the checkers, cubes and dice back in their storage areas, close the board and return it to me. They leave it out on the table to do whatever. This has happened as well.
Point: Whatever is in that board whether it is pertinent to playing or not, it is my property that I have graciously given someone else the responsibility of handling for their convenience of not schlepping their board on the plane/cartrip. The degree to which I know that someone has varied. There are enough examples here of people, good friends or not, who have not lived up to a simple responsibility they took on when asking to borrow my board. A good friend of mine had a board disappear at a tourney after a similar experience. A good number of other stories happen nearly every tourney with dice or checkers going missing.
Point summary: What motivation do I have to purchase yet more, sensitive equipment that I will schlep through the airport if someone else doesn't feel it's their responsibility to do the same? Especially, if past experience tells me that it will be ME that has to keep an eye on them the whole time?
My conclusion: The idea of players purchasing their own clocks is optional. Consensus here says that at least at the Championship level they should be employed. The TDs should accede to the desires of the players. I think that the burden should be spread equally through a one-time tournament fee increase. If people want this, commit their $$ to it. Will 2009 be the year of the clock fee?
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