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I'll Kick it Off -- Recording Controversy in Atlanta

Posted By: Dan Pelton
Date: Monday, 4 May 2009, at 1:53 a.m.

In Response To: I'll Kick it Off -- Recording Controversy in Atlanta (Matt Cohn-Geier)

I recall Bill Davis ran a poll on the chicagopoint.com site regarding recording. Results were: http://chicagopoint.com/pollresults.html

Should a player be able to videotape his ABT event, even if his opponent objects?

Yes in all cases, 109 votes, 35%

Yes, unless the director determines that the opponent has a valid reason for his objection, 74 votes, 24%

No, the opponent should be able to stop his match from being recorded with no reason given, 125 votes, 41%

Total votes 308.

I believe as a result of this Bill Davis stated that an opponent could stop a match from being recorded at the 2009 Midwest Championships.

Being personally pro-recording myself, and not a believer in the theory that a recording set-up can be an intimidation factor, will clearly state in the flyer for any event that I direct that any player shall have the right to record his match, whether through videotape or the use of a non-player manually recording the match.

It's a damn shame that directors are going to need to start producing multi-page flyers to identify all the special case rules for their tournaments such as clocks and recording.

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