Tournament Rules

[Dwingo]

It is a well know fact that hardly anyone reads the "Tournament Rules" before signing up for a tourney. My guess is, it probably less than 10% of people read it , even if it is posted.

 

There are many reasons for it. One person initiates registration and the other accepts. The person accepting will not read the Rules for sure. Thats 50% of people of not reading it.

 

Most of the TD's do not post the Tournament Rules for whatever reasons. Over a priod of time, players also do not expect any Tournament rules to be posted and hence do not try and click on the "Tournament Rules" button

 

If only this button "Tournament Rules" is highlighted in some fashion, whenever a TD upload the Tourney Rules, this will motivate players to see the Rules that are posted. Highlighting could be a color change or flashing colors or anything that will catch the eye.

 

It is is not a big deal if this is not implemented and should be very low priority, but if it can implemented without too much problems, then i would be nice to have.

 

Godwin

[uday]

No easy answers. Force users (invitor, invitee) to click thru the rules before registering? Blech. Once users register, sort of too late -- plus they may be at other tables when accepting invites and cant get away to read rules.

[guggie]

What is the use of posting tournament rules if these rules just imply normal politeness and alerting, what should be valid at every occasion on BBO?

 

If you want to have special rules l, state it:

no psyching or the no NT with singleton

polish club prohibited

languages or friends/enemies limits

 

Otherwise just continue the education;-)

 

people who dont bother to alert, wont bother to read the rules, so just give them immediate feed back when they forget.

 

I learn a lot from the training of my 2 dachshund puppies: a lot of positive feedback, a stern: NO if they do something terrible, and all the time you keep on smiling inwardly and shrug yr shoulders if they demolish something you forgot to guard against them: it is all in the game and you knew it when you started it.

[ack_hh]

Most of the TD's do not post the Tournament Rules for whatever reasons.

IMHO, the reasons are:

 

- setting up and uploading tournament rules is not as simple and intuitive as it could/should be

- one does not know if tournament rules exist for the chosen tournament. After checking the third tournament, just to discover this one, too, has no rules posted, motivation to look for rules on the fourth tourney has gone

- so, people don't read the rules because they do not expect to find (updated) rules, and hosts do not post or update the rules because nobody is reading them

[barmar]

A minor peeve of mine is when there are no rules posted, yet the tourney description says "Check tournament rules"! Only slightly less annoying is when the rules are just some standard boilerplate, but nothing specific to that tournament.

[KiwiBridge]

As an experiment, I once ran a tournament called SLOWBALL where the time allowed for each board was the maximum possible. I begged people NOT to enter unless they wanted to play VERY slowly i.e. about four boards an hour. In no time at all I had 120 starters. Of course, as soon as we began, they all started complaining about how slow it was.... proves no one takes much notice no matter HOW hard you try with the tournament conditions.

 

One thing I would like to see with CLOCKED tournaments is HOW LONG for each board - got trapped in a 20 board one the other night running at 16 minutes per round - was a real nightmare waiting all the time.

[chicken]

I learn a lot from the training of my 2 dachshund puppies: a lot of positive feedback, a stern: NO if they do something terrible, and all the time you keep on smiling inwardly and shrug yr shoulders if they demolish something you forgot to guard against them: it is all in the game and you knew it when you started it.

hehe,

 

i like that analogy. but it is up to everybody to think of more paralels :-)