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Time to stir the cauldron again... Appeals committee

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Monday, 26 October 2009, at 6:16 p.m.

In Response To: Time to stir the cauldron again... Appeals committee (Chuck Bower)

Chuck, you raise a good point. Committee appeals are very rare. I can only remember a few myself. At one tournament I called the director for a ruling and got a VERY BAD RULING. I knew that if I asked for a committee, it would likely be overturned. But I DID NOT ask for a committee for three reasons:

1) the ruling against me was not the end of the world for me, and I could live with the bad ruling without giving up too much match equity;

2) I didn't want to waste all that time getting people together, and;

3) Even though I was sure the ruling was wrong, I liked the director and didn't want to embarrass him by having his ruling overturned.

HOWEVER, it it had been DMP and the ruling meant the game, I would have been extremely upset. I would think that even the director would like to know that his opinion was backed up by a knowledgeable committee, and if the committee overruled him, EVEN IF HE THOUGHT HE WAS RIGHT, don't you think any tournament director would be relieved that he would never be thought of as the person responsible for someone winning or losing a match on a controversial ruling?

Clearly, the right to a committee "protects" the director from being put in such a situation and also protects the players from either a mistake by one party, or an "opinion" by one party that could seal his fate for the entire weekend.

I really fail to see the downside of having a committee, for all concerned.

Now, having said that, I still maintain that the merits of a committee is not the point here. The point here is that we have established rules, and tournament directors, more than anyone, should set the example that like it or not, we will live by those rules.

Yesterday I saw a copy talking on his cell phone in Chicago without using hands free....that is against the law here and people have been ticketed for that. I tried to get a picture of it but was not in time. (I wasn't going to turn him in...I was going to use it if a cop ever stopped me for talking on my phone.)

If you want me to follow the rules, why don't you?

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