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jgalioto wrote:According to the game rules, shouldn't bigragooch be playing The Outsiders? Team 1 plays team 4?
Team 1 will play team 2, 19 plays 20, etc. in 2nd round: team 1 will play 16, 2 plays 15, round 3, 12 teams left-most points play least points, etc., round 4-team 1 vs team 8, 2 vs 7, etc., round 5: team 1 plays team 4, and team 2 plays team 3, final round, last 2 teams face off, most points win.
Or maybe there was a change; I haven't really been following any updates.
Incandenza wrote:Game 5801466 THOTA prevails in round 6.
Blitzaholic wrote:past 24 hours, bigragooch minus 12 points for no members in any 3 games, and the grey matters -9 points for 3 members missing in 3 games.
Bigragooch wrote:Blitzaholic wrote:past 24 hours, bigragooch minus 12 points for no members in any 3 games, and the grey matters -9 points for 3 members missing in 3 games.
I just noticed this post. I have been busy at work and out of town a lot, so I haven't been checking the forums lately. I have a bit of a problem with this penalty for both teams.
For the first time that I can remember, you only sent the invite to the captains of each team for these games. Historically, you have been sending the invites to all of the members of each team. When you sent out the reminder that we were late joining the games, you sent it to all members of the team. I was out of town when you sent the initial invite and I had someone watching my account. In general, that person will go through my inbox as well and sign me up for games if I am going to be away for a couple of days ... in this case, I was gone for less than 48 hours, so they didn't even check.
If the invite had been sent to all members of the team, one of my teammates would have signed me up. It has happened before in this tournament, and we know to sign each other up when we were out of town. Presumable, a similar event befell our opponents. If I had to guess, the one person on the "Grey Matters" team who was signed up for the games was the team captain. He probably didn't realize he had to forward on the invite to his teammates since you usually send it to everyone anyway.
Nowhere in the rules does it state that the Captain will be the only one receiving the invite and is responsible for passing it along to the team. The only responsibility of the Captain in the rules is to post wins to get the 0.5 point bonus.
I really don't want to be a pain in the ass because this has been an extremely well run tournament and I know it has been a lot of work for you. If the past practice had always been to just PM the team captain and have him send out the invites, I wouldn't complain as I understand and appreciate the need for the 1 point penalty rule; however, this is a change from your method throughout the tournament of sending invites. I even recall the situation when I didn't participate in a set of games because the invite was sent out to all of my team members including my team's reserve, and the reserve joined the game before I could. At that time, I didn't complain; I only requested that the reserve be removed from future e-mails so that I could be responsible for inviting him if he was needed.
I personally feel there shouldn't be a penalty for either team.
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