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Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: Electronic cubical dice - one advantage (Daniel Murphy)
Date: Friday, 25 February 2011, at 9:53 a.m.
Thanks for correcting Daniel.
It's a bad translation. There exists 2 or 3 different translations of the DBgF rules, I can't remember if this one has been improved from where I copy/pasted.
Anyway, it has always been the intention to place the bafflebox next to the outfields, not next to the home-boards, for the very reasons discussed here.
When we did that original rewrite of the rulebook, we started out by wanting to completely integrate clock-rules (analogue at the time) into the rulebook, and then correct other minor details and do a few improvements. We ended up with a more radical change than that :-)
The process was that a rules committee consisting of Morten Aagreen and myself, assisted by one of our most experienced tournament directors (Michael Schou), should go through all the different international rules we could dig up, and all the variations on especially clock rules, discuss them "online" then meet a couple of times, to write what we thought was the best of them all. During our face to face meetings, we would bring clocks, different sized boards, different cups and die sizes, and a bafflebox, to sit down and try/test the rules. Verifying that the size preferences for the board was making sense, the clock procedures, etc. Michael's job were to provide us with his experience, from directing a vast number of tournaments at all levels, of what typically was causing issues, how he'd rule in given situations, etc. Mainly for us to workout where we needed to put in explicit penalties (such as the 30 second penalty for "stealing time" by picking up dice and shaking while it's not your turn).
Our final result was then handed over to the DBgF board, who reviewed it, approved almost everything, and then published it with just minor changes.
I don't recall if Daniel was part of the board at that time, but I don't think so - I seem to recall that he was involved in trying to setup some discussion forum to work towards unified world rules, with a lot of people world wide. Something that couldn't be done at that moment because someone (leaving out the names) only wanted to see their own rules and nothing else!
Maybe if USBgF takes off well, the "world community" would be ready for discussing a set of unified rules? The difference now is not that big anymore. I guess it's just a matter of the 3-6 main actors agreeing on things, then it would become a defacto standard.
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