spwdo Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 hi, well mike , you a lucky guy, i used 3boards/1 round couple of times and to much baords are beeing skipped, we have agreed now with must directours in our tourneys to adjust first baord when 1 side is timeoffending, so the second baord is started in time(nomore skipped boards) we had 113 tables today and hadnt got one call of a baord beeing skipped(at leat to our knowledge) we check also every time we go to a table the complete movie and adjust all the av- we see in there, when a player ask for an adjust we check all baords he played(easy nowwith new software) and its a small % of players that always have problems with time. never had a complaint about adjusting first board for timeoffence, it beats a skipped board we feel, that leaves 4 unsattisfient player because all want to play, and its better to leave a table with second played and first adjusted then vice versa, some sort of spycholigie i dont know but the moment u adjusted first baord, second is dealt and all resume with counting and playing and it saves td work or at least its better devided(some adjust are done in the middle of round) and slowplayers are warned already and u remeber the tables, first thing i check after round is finisheh cause im wondering if they have finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 To address Marta's original question - I do not adjust Boards skipped after the 4 minute mark. I DO tell the players in advance if they haven't begun the last hand in each round by the 4 minute mark that the Board will be skipped and they will earn the dreaded AVERAGE ..... AND, I tell them in advance that I will not adjust Boards that are skipped. Pairs who use delays (read cheating) as a tactic to win tourneys have only one objective: winning fairly or unfairly. Since I run Survivor tourneys, the prospect of being cut because of an unnecessary AVERAGE is often enough to inspire these pairs to drop their shenanigans. I know not everyone likes Survivor format, but it definitely has some built in preventative features :D Frosty/Jan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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