From a different, unrelated thread. This belongs here.
LESHIPPY wrote:
So here is different problem that I faced as a judge. At the beginning of the day I announced that once everyone was seated i would start a 10 minute time giving everyone the similar amount of time to set up before we started. After the 10 minutes the round would start. I feel that Tim brings up a good point on this issue and I know that many times I have needed one more round to win, or that one more round would have changed the outcome. So this is why I decided to do this.
Good. I feel like this fits my point about each judge running things differently. I don't like the idea of adding 40-50 minutes to a tournament and will generally call time when about 2/3 of the players are set. Virtually, no one has time to start early at this point.
You had clear reasons for doing it differently, and I want that to continue.
LESHIPPY wrote:
In round 5 Eric (Engineer) and Graham (Greentime) decided to ignore this for what ever reason. I told them to stop. They continued. Then I had to sternly tell them to stop and got some body language and facial experssions that was telling me they thought this was stupid. To but this into context just about all of Eric's game through out the day had went to time. I am not sure about Grahm's. But I would have expected that experienced gamers wouldn't have to be told twice.
I count two warnings, plus you had clearly stated your intent prior to the tournament starting. You had grounds to take further measures, whether that be DQ, or simply deducting the 3 to a two (unless of course it ended 20 minutes early or so).
I get that people are on different sides of that argument, but you are the judge and in the end to fairly satisfy both parties in that debate, you MUST BE respected.