Re: Conqueror's Cup!!
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:37 pmYeah, unfortunately our thread (in the TOFU forum) was a copied job that Dako created from White Moose's OP in the public thread. This meant that the list of games only showed updates as and when Moose decided to do it. Whilst I did compile a list of my own games (after running through the 40 maps in Batches 1 & 2) I simply overlooked the fact I had participated in USApocalypse which I mistook for Arms Race (i.e. that was the map I had in my mind when I read it, and I knew I hadn't played on it). The mistake wouldn't have been made if a list of games with the participating players had been kept up-to-date, because then the task of tallying the totals becomes a very simple one (far easier than opening 40 pages of games to check the names of the participants on a PC that takes two minutes to load Conquerman and cannot load Hive at all). What's most annoying is that my original sheet of paper (that's how I keep notes at home) indicated I had 7 games allowance remaining, which was correct. When I did a last minute recount just prior to everyone joining their games that is when I discounted the USApocalypse game and thought "Eh? I must have been wrong before and I can actually play in eight games". I then replaced Dako in Bamboo Jack trips (the line-up we had posted had Dako instead of me and it would have been perfect left alone). Had there been a proper update of the games, showing the participants alongside each game as had been done for Batch 1, then of course the error wouldn't have been made as I'd have seen my name alongside USApocalypse.
Lessons to be learned from this:
- don't let the other clan run the OP. They requested to do it (I can't imagine why) as it should have been our job being the higher seeded clan.
- push the author of the OP to update it more frequently. I even sent Moose updates to the player count which he didn't apply to the thread which I find very annoying. His response was simply 'Player counts are not accurate' to paraphrase his reply.
There was a ridiculous lapse of time between Batches 2 and 3 - ample time for the OP to be updated but it never was (despite me even sending the info to KORT), yet it's funny how quickly the OP has now been updated after the 21 game penalty!
This is a very interesting rule (thank you Eddie): "A list of players participating for each clan should be kept up along with a running tally of how many games each player has played in". Well KORT failed in their duty to do this, yet now they wish to apply a penalty for a breach that their own negligence brought about. Pretty sick eh.
Lessons to be learned from this:
- don't let the other clan run the OP. They requested to do it (I can't imagine why) as it should have been our job being the higher seeded clan.
- push the author of the OP to update it more frequently. I even sent Moose updates to the player count which he didn't apply to the thread which I find very annoying. His response was simply 'Player counts are not accurate' to paraphrase his reply.
There was a ridiculous lapse of time between Batches 2 and 3 - ample time for the OP to be updated but it never was (despite me even sending the info to KORT), yet it's funny how quickly the OP has now been updated after the 21 game penalty!
This is a very interesting rule (thank you Eddie): "A list of players participating for each clan should be kept up along with a running tally of how many games each player has played in". Well KORT failed in their duty to do this, yet now they wish to apply a penalty for a breach that their own negligence brought about. Pretty sick eh.
