Retirement

[Ali-Iqb93]

@Rob ITST
Will you plzz read my pm? Its important. Thanks

[djarvik]

I concur with Rob. I am glad to give the extension, even for round 16 (no more then a day), but ONLY in the event that I see both players attempt to schedule and fail.

During TS3 times, I was in the same situation (worse), I played 6 tours at once, MS, MSS, WS on both consoles, and I was winning...that means I had weeks where I was in upwards of 12 tournaments at once. It is tough to schedule, but I would make sure and PM early and make sure to actually schedule the matches. Give exact times, 2-3 days from now, just to lock in the time. PM-ing on the last day of deadline will be addressed by all hosts the same.

Another thing to remember, hosts are volunteers, they have personal life's that get in the way of hosting at times. If the tournament is late, that is not necessarily because host decided to give you an extension, it could be that host is simply not available that day to update the tournament. Sometimes 2-3 days (rarely). At times, a host could be swamped with life for over a week. If you see such tournaments, send a PM to one of the managers (NOT ALL OF THEM) and give him a day to respond. If they don't, go to the next manager. Tournaments should not be late over a week at final stages, 2-3 days is acceptable.

Sorry, another note. I will take this opportunity to make a request:

Please, do not spam your opponent with PMs. One pm with your preferred time of play is enough. Then wait for a response and hosts decision. No need to keep sending pms.

Your PM should always contain one of the two: your time of play or agreement to opponent time of play. No need to send any other pms when scheduling the match. This speeds up draws updates for hosts, you spare them the reading of 20 pms with no times. This is the biggest factor of why draws take longer to update.

All hosts on board now have sufficient experience to make a decision, no need to help them by over-pming and making accusations to your opponent.


This is such a simple concept: Send your time, receive either agreement or a different time, agree or send new time. And so on.

[Rob ITST]

There is one other time you should send a PM - to the host and your opponent.

If you arrange a time, and your opponent doesn't show up, let the host know. I also like to see a PM to the opponent. Something like: "I was waiting for 30 minutes, but you didn't show up".

Too often I see players arrange a match, and the match isn't played. No more messages to the host or the opponent. As the host, I have no idea what happened after the last message. So then, the only options are to give a no match, or to send messages to each player asking what happened. If it is past the deadline, I'll usually just give a no match.

[Moralspain]

There is one other time you should send a PM - to the host and your opponent.

If you arrange a time, and your opponent doesn't show up, let the host know. I also like to see a PM to the opponent. Something like: "I was waiting for 30 minutes, but you didn't show up".

Too often I see players arrange a match, and the match isn't played. No more messages to the host or the opponent. As the host, I have no idea what happened after the last message. So then, the only options are to give a no match, or to send messages to each player asking what happened. If it is past the deadline, I'll usually just give a no match.

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[DennieFR1908]

Your right. I made a mistake. I contacted him to late. Normally I never do this but this time I did. The reason was that I couldn't play yet and decided to contact him when I found time, it went wrong, my mistake. I hope this can be forgiven for this time. This also wasn't the reason why Morgan gave the WO. He principally gives a wo when it are the final 16 and deadline passes is what he told me. My opponent is very sportive though, he pm-ed me and said he still wanted to play if allowed, and he was available tomorrow in the afternoon. So am I. So if allowed, I will play him tomorrow and one of us will report the score. Let's not make this little mistake something big Awaiting a response.

[Cro Morgan]

If you wish to complain about this further, do so in a PM - not here on the forum.