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Homeless man camps out at NY Metro Open

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2009, at 8:36 p.m.

In Response To: Homeless man camps out at NY Metro Open (Chuck Bower)

Howard is a good guy and directs some great tournaments. I don't want to see him singled out because the issue is systemic. But the facts are the facts. We need to make it clear that these slowdowns are the rule, not the exception, at most (if not all) major US tournaments. Things just happened to come to a boil for you this weekend. I'm impressed at your eventual strong showing after what appears to be sleepless (or sleep deprived) nights.

I don't really want to comment on how Howard and his staff organized things, because I'm largely inexperienced with TDs & tourneys. They seem to usually run a fine tournament and probably did the best they could here with what they had, but what they had was a Saturday night huge bracket problem (Rich's other nights notwithstanding).

Interestingly, I seem to play better after sleep deprived nights.

What I don't like seeing in this thread is the idea that the doubles are to blame. The doubles are one of multiple simultaneous events. Just like the "clock the slow players" shortcut, clocking the doubles (preferentially) is not the final solution. Let's clock the (open) doubles, the Masters, the Open (singles). I (and probably all of you) have been slowed considerably by matches that had nothing to do with doubles (and I mean the players involved weren't even in the doubles).

I didn't mean to imply that doubles was the SOLE cause of these delays as it clearly wasn't, the problem was multiple events running simultaneously. However doubles was clearly an issue in this case.

IMHO, doubles should be mandatory clocks because a 7 point match can drag on for hours and cause big scheduling problems; the masters should be mandatory clocks because people in the masters shouldn't have any issue playing with a clock; the open should be mandatory clocks because it's the main event which takes precedence and open level players shouldn't have a problem with clocks.

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