dnemiller wrote:
no Dennis I remember it well. You had info that you were talking about sharing with me and no one else. The other members had every right to hear it not just me. After a couple of days you shared it..... but why the wait? It concerned everyone. Me wanting all the Hall of Famers is me not wanting all the info quite the opposite.
Okay, well I never said I wasn't going to share it with anyone else. If that were the case, why would I bring it up for the entire HoF members to be aware of at all? And no, it wasn't because of some sinister ulterior motive, before we start down that line again.
Why the wait? Because I hadn't decided what my response would be to the messages being sent and I wasn't about to have it played out for public debate until I had made up my own mind. But I wanted people to be aware of it, as a courtesy and an invitation to be watching for possible future discussion. Yes, as a courtesy. My mistake for handling it that way, one I have been careful not to make again.
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You are upset because you said I didn't listen to you on your phone call. But you had to leave not me. I did nto finish explaining the rest of rules to you I was only partially done. It would seem you might want to hear the rest of it or something before you claimed I did not listen to your ideas. But ok whatever sadly this is not the first time you have threatened to quit playing DCI in SWM and it wont be the last. It seems that ever since Gencon has been over you have been upset about something and for the life of me I dont know why. I know you have other real life issues that keep you occupied but still it seems like something else.
No Dean, I'm not upset about the phone call or how it went. You are right, I had an impatient wife trying to get me off the phone that night. But that isn't the issue here.
The issue here is that I made a comment that I don't agree that awarding fewer points to the winner of a game which goes to time because it - like most things about the Swiss system - allows a losing player to manipulate the overall outcome, and in stating so I reiterated my own belief that - as others have again pointed to since then - the way people play the game in accordance with Gambit has led us to this. Make points matter less, I said. It's not original, and it's not even my idea. But instead what I get is some sort of accusation that I am holding back some secret solution that has never been discussed. That is simply not true, and I think after all this time you should know me better than that.
In any case, a player who wins a game that goes to time gets 2 points instead of 3. Not sure what else I'm missing about this that would make me feel better about it as part of Swiss style play.
And no, it's not just a threat about DCI. In the last few months I've been going to the store less. I hate Swiss. I don't understand the decisions the program makes about rankings. They seem completely arbitrary and follow no specific pattern. Coolecticon was my first tournament in weeks. In Tile Wars I got paired down every round. Every round! The system arbitrarily put me out of contention, and I know I'm not the only one that happens to. I despise Swiss more and more because of things like that, even when I see them happen to other people.
Yes there are real life issues I'm dealing with, and they probably are influencing my behavior some. I apologize for that.
So to answer your question, no I do not have some amazing solution that I can spring on you or anyone else. You are aware of all of my ideas on how to fix the problem. It's about changing the mindset of people who want to win on points at the end of a specific amount of time into one that makes them want to win by defeating all of their opponents pieces as fast as possible, and while I appreciate the hard work you have put into finding a solution, I don't believe it accomplishes that particular goal.
That is just my opinion. As Nickname would say, "I don't need to have the last word. You can have it if you want."