pokemonisfun
Banned deucer.
Updated proposal as of August 15th, 2021:
If a certain player, say Player A, has cheated against a person, say Player B, in a tournament and Player A is DQ'd in the very next round, Player B will be allowed back in to play against whoever Player A was matched up against.
I want to suggest that if a person, say Player A, gets DQ'd for cheating, his or her current round opponent, say Player B, will not get a bye. Instead, Player B will have to play the person Player A beat in the previous round, say Player C. In other words, Player C gets a second chance instead of Player B getting a free win.
The reasons for adopting this policy is as follows, in no particular order:
To this concern, I'd say two points:
Anyways I proposed this to every TD last week and nobody immediately communicated any issues with it but I'm sure I'm missing something still. Feel free to heavily criticize. Overall, I just think this makes our tournaments more competitive and lessens the effect of cheaters.
If a certain player, say Player A, has cheated against a person, say Player B, in a tournament and Player A is DQ'd in the very next round, Player B will be allowed back in to play against whoever Player A was matched up against.
I want to suggest that if a person, say Player A, gets DQ'd for cheating, his or her current round opponent, say Player B, will not get a bye. Instead, Player B will have to play the person Player A beat in the previous round, say Player C. In other words, Player C gets a second chance instead of Player B getting a free win.
The reasons for adopting this policy is as follows, in no particular order:
- It helps maintain the integrity of the tournament and competition by keeping the same number of matches as originally scheduled. Giving someone a free win/bye, if their opponent gets DQ'd, would reduce the number of matches in the tournament by 1.
- There is no "extra" benefit caused by this. The extra benefit is already going to be caused because Player A cheated and is DQ'd. This change would transfer the benefit from Player B (getting a free win) to Player C (getting a second chance)
- In fact, the extra benefit is lesser with this policy change. It's better to give Player C a second chance because their loss came earlier in the tournament compared to Player B's free win later in the tournament; it's better to affect the early rounds rather than the later rounds.
- The extra benefit also more justifiable, you could at least argue Player C was cheated out of a fair chance. Player B doesn't really deserve the free bye at all, they didn't do anything for it.
To this concern, I'd say two points:
- At the very least, you could still adopt this policy chance for anyone who gets DQ'd in round 2 of a tournament so this issue doesn't appear. You could maintain the old policy of giving free wins to Player B if player A get's DQ'd in round 3 or later.
- Additionally, you could try to make it competitive by putting everyone Player A beat in a mini tournament, and whoever wins that mini tournament or "tiebreak" of sorts, can challenge Player B. This is certainly a viable option in at least smaller playoff tournaments that last only 4 rounds.
- For longer tournaments, like one of the Opens that last 10 rounds about, we could still maintain the status quo policy of giving a free win to Player B after a certain round.
Anyways I proposed this to every TD last week and nobody immediately communicated any issues with it but I'm sure I'm missing something still. Feel free to heavily criticize. Overall, I just think this makes our tournaments more competitive and lessens the effect of cheaters.
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