Common Courtesy at Conflux
Feb. 1st, 2009 05:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoSaturday morning I went to the Conflux prerelease. All in all I had a good time, and managed 3 wins and an intentional draw for Round 4, so I got 7 prize packs. The only bad parts were how tired I was for the Round 4 games, and the extraordinary lack of courtesy shown by my Round 2 opponent.
In each round of a tournament, it is your responsability to look at the list of pairings and find out who you're playing against. If you don't recognize the person's name, you can call it out to the room in general and try to get their attention.
For round 2, I called out the guy's name 3 times and never got an answer. On the fourth try, I finally got the guy's attention. He was all the way back in the corner of the room, and obviously never got up to look at the pairings himself. If you're not going to look up your opponent, and just let him find you, then you should at least be listening for someone to call your name. Freaking ridiculous.
The tournament was sold out, and the room was pretty crowded. To go sit across from this guy I was going to have to get 5 people to pull in their chairs to let me by. Then I'd have to try to squeeze my coat and bag in next to me. Or, he could have come out past 2 people and we could have sat at the table I was at in the middle of the room with a lot of open space around us. My appeals that it would be easier for him to come to me were ignored. Awesome. He's just building up so much good will from me already, and we're not even sitting across from each other yet.
Game 1 I destroyed him, and I admit that I took great satisfaction in doing so. Then he wanted to swap out some cards before game 2, which is entirely legal and perfectly reasonable. But it took him like 5 or 10 minutes. We've only got 40 minutes total to play our 2 or 3 games in the first place, and we already lost 5 minutes of that because he didn't make any effort to find me so we could start the round on time. When we finally played game 2 it was a lot closer, but to my immense relief I still managed to beat him. I was incredibly grateful that I didn't have to sit across from the guy for a third game. We almost certainly would have run out of time trying to play it, and I really didn't want to have to associate with him any more than necessary as it was. Grr.
In each round of a tournament, it is your responsability to look at the list of pairings and find out who you're playing against. If you don't recognize the person's name, you can call it out to the room in general and try to get their attention.
For round 2, I called out the guy's name 3 times and never got an answer. On the fourth try, I finally got the guy's attention. He was all the way back in the corner of the room, and obviously never got up to look at the pairings himself. If you're not going to look up your opponent, and just let him find you, then you should at least be listening for someone to call your name. Freaking ridiculous.
The tournament was sold out, and the room was pretty crowded. To go sit across from this guy I was going to have to get 5 people to pull in their chairs to let me by. Then I'd have to try to squeeze my coat and bag in next to me. Or, he could have come out past 2 people and we could have sat at the table I was at in the middle of the room with a lot of open space around us. My appeals that it would be easier for him to come to me were ignored. Awesome. He's just building up so much good will from me already, and we're not even sitting across from each other yet.
Game 1 I destroyed him, and I admit that I took great satisfaction in doing so. Then he wanted to swap out some cards before game 2, which is entirely legal and perfectly reasonable. But it took him like 5 or 10 minutes. We've only got 40 minutes total to play our 2 or 3 games in the first place, and we already lost 5 minutes of that because he didn't make any effort to find me so we could start the round on time. When we finally played game 2 it was a lot closer, but to my immense relief I still managed to beat him. I was incredibly grateful that I didn't have to sit across from the guy for a third game. We almost certainly would have run out of time trying to play it, and I really didn't want to have to associate with him any more than necessary as it was. Grr.
