Concise description:
If a player deadbeats on the very first turn, there should be an option to just drop the game
Specifics/Details:
If the first person deadbeats, the other player may drop the game. Either the person who deadbeats loses 2 points or no points are lost. In either case, the person who drops the game gains nothing..
This might apply only to regular games, not speed games (it's easy to get distracted and miss your turn in a speed game), but I leave that up the "peanut" gallary to decide, since I don't play them any longer.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
I cannot remember any time when someone deadbeat the FIRST turn and it would up being a decent game. Usually, it seems to be newer players who decide they don't like the map or some such.
I normally don't care much if someone misses. However, if someone cannot be bothered to show up for the first turn, its just wasting everyone's time. In other game types, one person can deadbeat and the game will absolutely change, but you still have a game. Basically, you have a second "nuetral". In 1 vs 1, the game becomes a "waiting game".
Occasionally, people try to do this for "strategy". That is just plain annoying and rather unsportsmanlike, even if it is perfectly "legal". It is particularly irritating in a 1 v 1 game. This would discourage the dilly-dallying tactic, only in 1 v 1, but not prohibit it. (and this tactic is one reason why my initial suggestion was to have no points gained or lost)
If someone wants to keep playing, there is no reason they cannot. This is just an option.
I did forget about the "oops I don't like this drop, I'll just deadbeat" group. They are why I added in the point loss option.
