Posted by Firegal
on 11/15/2008, 12:30 am
Message modified by board administrator 11/15/2008, 1:13 am
No Such Thing!! Yes sometimes it can come close but with our wide range of players skills in our tourney it is never going to happen. I believe most try to play low man(with exceptions of those who play for vengience), but it doesn't always work out that way. When did any card game become fair and curtious. I believe low man was created by someone who lost by a large margin and said.. ohh thats not fair.. i am out with 202 and everybody else only has 20, 32, 60. Well if you learned how to play your cards that would not happen. The point of a game is to Win by any means possible. And if you lose, well, you say gg and hopefully better luck next time. The more you play the better you get. And the better you get the closer the scores. Real winners can play anybody of any level.. you learn your opponant. In our tourney most are the same players playing every night.. if you didn't figure out their game style tonight well maybe you will tomorrow and you play your cards in accordance to them.
what I hate the most is all the teachers. Not the fact that they try to help improve another players skills but the tone inwhich they try to do it.
Some criticize every move a player makes, they get mad when someone leads a spade and didn't know you only had the Queen and no back up and you expected the other player or players to know that. Passing Low Queen and Pulling it out.. players get called PNP. (isn't it the point of the game to get low in anyway that you can) or if someone passes you Q with backup to high..and you play every suit possible but spades at least twice and it gets down to 5 or 6 cards left.. your only out is to lead spades and you do ( the queen may or may not comeout) but here comes the lightning bolts and you are accused of PNP. these are only some examples.. there are others I know.
This tourney was created for enjoyment and socialization in a competitive style hince the tourney format. But some zct like this is the World Series Of Hearts and there is a lot of money or some big trophy they will get.. The only thing you get here is a T-shirt inwhich Lee aka Drunkie pays for out of his own pocket, he doesn't have to do this but he does it out of the goodness of his heart. This tourney has no sponsors inwhich any of the host or prizes are paid for. All the host do this voluntarely.
This tourney is competitive in 2 ways.. By game and by leaderboard. Some players compete purely on leaderboard.. not saying that they don't try to win the game, they kinda have to win to keep up their scores on leaderboard but, you may have a player in Finals or in a early part of tourney, go after someone that is tailing or leading them on the board to get a wider point range or take over the lead. But you can't fault them for that.. it is part of our tourney.
The people I am mostly dissapointed in, are the players who dump on other players just because who they are. Or the ones that get mad had unload queen on themselves because of a temper tantrum all because they didn't agree on play on hand before. It is not right and doesn't help you in the game at all.. All it does is create tension, a possible loss and if it gets carried away a possible DQ or bann.
Don't we all have enough stress in our lives to try and not bring it to a place that we enjoy doing...Playing Hearts with Friends.
If you want to teach someone to better their playing skills.. talk to them as a friend, take them to smoots or play in are tourney lobby when tourney is not in progress... and have good time with them.. they will probably learn more that way than you yelling at them.
When a game is over.. whether you win or lose.. say GG.. leave what happen in the game.. in the game. Don't hold grudges. I know at times it can be hard to do, but you can do it.
If a player is being bad.. email one of the hosts or IM them and explain what happen.. if you do not know their email addy.. just ask for it.. they will give it to you. But please don't jump all over a host because he or she did not react fast enough.. only you and the other players seen what happened and sometimes host has to get caught up with what did happen and then take the appropriate measures.
well anyways.. I am not trying to be mean, hateful, or anything like that.. I just believe we can do better without making drastic changes to the tourney format itself.
Love all you guys and enjoy playing with all of you.
p.s.this is only my oppinion.. and not anyone elses and do not expect everyone to agree.
p.s.s. one more thing i wanted to add about playing for 2nd... in the first round.. 2nd seat is a winning seat to the semi's minus 3 points. top 2 is the game, if a player chooses 7 points rather than the full 10.. that only hurts them on leaderboard.
If all the bickering and poor sportmanship would stop and everybody tried to have a good time.. the more people we would have playing, meaning more rooms.. more rooms means eventually top 2 would go away... i believe at 9 rooms and above it starts becoming winners and wilds.. We had 8 rooms the other night.. we are getting closer.. we just got to stop running people off and learn to get along.. It is only a game.
ok now i am done.. sorry for the book ;-)
forgive me for my spelling, it is late
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