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Bad Beat (aka... where'd my 35 points go?)
Posted By: Michael Petch In Response To: Bad Beat (aka... where'd my 35 points go?) (Jason Lee)
Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2009, at 11:42 p.m.
Trying to get players blackballed from events is getting the Directors involved. I have been the director of non backgammon events and had I seen this come across my desk in that capacity I would have thrown it away.
The problem is with how people play the chouettes. Maybe rather than blackball players you force people to put money in escrow before the chouette. Non payouts in chouette should be dealt with among the players.
Tournament directors should appear "transparent", and work at "arms length" and avoid "conflicts of interest". Blackballing players for things that happen like this is not being arms length. Next someone will say "He was a bad man when I played him, and he wasn't nice, so I wanted him blackballed from all future events until he apologizes".
Chouette players should take more responsibility and attempt to deal with the issue themselves, or change how chouettes are conducted.
If I lost money to some guy who didn't pay out and I held an event he registered for I still wouldn't blackball him because of course that would have been a conflict of interest.
I mean seriously - the chouette players and their problems are one thing, the event Directors and the events themselves are another.
Which brings me to something that caught my attention previously. Many ABT events are invitational but people can be denied registration for pretty much anything. To tell you the truth I am surprised that any ABT event are allowed to carry the "Invitational" moniker. The ABT should gave strict guidelines on how people are accepted and rejected and be uniform.
Let me guess, the event in question was also an "Invitiational" event?
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