It has come to the attention that the time you record a game and the time you submit it is too long. So instead of two weeks, you have three days, 72 hours, to submit a game after you've recorded it. We'll probably be lenient for the first half of the tourney, but we'll be more stingent in the second half.

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), July 22, 1999

Answers

Question, when did we start imposing tournament rules at will??? I thought all tourney rules have to be voted on once the tournament started...

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), July 22, 1999.

Actually 3 days is what I suggested when I made this rule suggestion back before the tournament started. I figured it would increase the competition as everyone saw what the mark was they had to beat and avoid someone building up a raft of big scores and then uploading them at the last minute without giving someone opportunity to respond. I think we will still have some people who upload a new 1st place score in the last day or so of the tournament in the hopes that it won't be beaten. This was my intention for proposing this rule in the first place TO PREVENT SOMEONE FROM HOARDING A GOOD SCORE.

While I'm glad to see that Gameboy has now adjusted the timeframe back down to my original suggestion, although unfortunately this should have been done prior to the tournament beginning, I don't know that it's necessarily going to be viewed kindly changing a rule like this once the tournament has started.

BeeJay.

-- beejay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), July 22, 1999.

Calm down, it's a rule that is a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned. If we don't do something like this, then this essentially becomes a 1 or 2 day tournament. I fully concur with gameboy and BeeJay on this one. Good idea BeeJay

JoustGod

-- JoustGod (pinballwiz1@msn.com), July 23, 1999.

I, for one, don't feel like watching my lead evaporate in the last 24 hours just because someone thought they could outsmart the system (provided I can hold it that long ;) . Like JoustGod said, this one's a no-brainer. I think we could stand to shorten the tournament length a little too; I'd be willing to vote on that.

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), July 23, 1999.

Gameboy9 had made it clear at the start that he'd set certain rules if they were obviusly neccessary. The voting was intended to give us a chance to add to things & keep it steered the right direction, not tie the tournament coordinators in miles of red tape.

That said, this one is a no brainer. Still, there will need to be some leeway in the next week or so, and I'm not guaranteeing support for all autocratic changes later :)

Aqua

-- Aquatarkus (aquatarkus@digicron.com), July 23, 1999.