New Abandoned/Rescued Tournament Policy

by **Lindax** on Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:28 pm

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Abandoned & Rescued Tournament Policy
Announced 08/18/10

Hereby I proudly present our new policy for Abandoned & Rescued Tournaments.

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Disclaimer

Once a tournament has been registered inactive the Tournament Director (TD) in charge of Abandoned & Rescued Tournaments will contact the Tournament Organizer (TO). If the TO does not respond within a week the tournament will be registered as abandoned. If the TO has not been online for at least a week, the tournament will be registered as abandoned automatically. If the TO wishes to continue the tournament or find somebody to rescue the tournament he/she has to notify the TD. If the TO does not accomplish either within a week, or another time frame deemed appropriate by the TD, the tournament will be registered as abandoned. Once a tournament is registered as abandoned the original TO loses all rights to the tournament. After that the TD can decide to try find somebody to rescue the tournament or permanently register as abandoned without permission of the original TO.

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Every abandoned tournament will result in a “fine” of 1 point.

The ladder system is as follows:

1 Point: Informal Warning and a slap on the wrist

2 Points: Official warning and a swift kick in the "tookus"

3 Points: 3 month ban from starting/hosting tournaments

4 Points: 6 month ban from starting/hosting tournaments

5 Points: 1 year ban from starting/hosting tournaments

Points will be offset as follows:

1 Point per 10 completed tournaments
1 Point per rescued and completed tournament

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Notes:

1.- A first time offense will have a maximum ban of 3 months. The accumulated points will stand.

2.- If offsetting points result in a point balance of less than 1 point the TO will still get an informal warning and the abandoned tournament(s) will be registered.

3.- TOs coming back after a ban with more than 5 points can only organize 1 tournament at a time (and rescue 1 at a time) until they are below the 5 point level.

by **iamkoolerthanu** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:24 am

So does everyone's points start off at 0 right now? Or is everyone's points 'updated' to fit the new system already?

by **greenoaks** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:44 am

Is there a list somewhere of what each players score is ?

by **rdsrds2120** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:35 am

Can you have negative points or is the minimum zero?

by **jrh_cardinal** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:19 am

As I understand it, you are not "in the system" until you abandon tournament(s)that you are running. This makes it a much quicker process for Lx and the other TD's. When/if you do abandon tournament(s), Lx can go back and figure out how many tournaments you have run/rescued through the tournament database, and obviously see how many tournaments you are abandoning, then figure out your point total at that moment and issue the proper punishment.

So ya, you can be in negative numbers, but you're not really even counted until you abandon a tournament.

by **greenoaks** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:08 am

i want to join a tournament

how am i supposed to know if the organiser is the equivalent of a player deadbeater if i don't know his score

by **Ace Rimmer** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:12 am

greenoaks wrote:i want to join a tournament

how am i supposed to know if the organiser is the equivalent of a player deadbeater if i don't know his score

If there's no score, he's never deadbeat a tourney.

by **Night Strike** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:13 am

greenoaks wrote:Is there a list somewhere of what each players score is ?

greenoaks wrote:i want to join a tournament

how am i supposed to know if the organiser is the equivalent of a player deadbeater if i don't know his score

The scores will not be kept public just like we have done for past abandoned tournament levels, but now that we have the database, anybody can look up the organizer and see if they have any abandoned tournaments. Some old members will have abandoned tournaments from before the first abandoned tournament policy, but all abandoned tournaments for like the past 2.5 years were punished in some way.

tl;dr: No list, but you can do your own research.

by **YoBFelip** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:23 am

I won a tourny a month ago, i have pm the TO many times for my medal, seems his answer is FO, can he lose points for this, not finishing a tourny?

by **JoshyBoy** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:05 am

phillipm wrote:I won a tourny a month ago, i have pm the TO many times for my medal, seems his answer is FO, can he lose points for this, not finishing a tourny?

It is not the Tournament Organiser's duty to distribute a medal to the winner. Only the Tournament Directors like Lindax, Night Strike, etc. can award these medals. As long as the Tournament Organiser has marked his tournament thread completed, you will be awarded your medal in due course. The Tournament Team are always busy and it may take them a short while to get round to awarding all the medals etc.

by **Lindax** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:15 am

jrh_cardinal wrote:As I understand it, you are not "in the system" until you abandon tournament(s)that you are running. This makes it a much quicker process for Lx and the other TD's. When/if you do abandon tournament(s), Lx can go back and figure out how many tournaments you have run/rescued through the tournament database, and obviously see how many tournaments you are abandoning, then figure out your point total at that moment and issue the proper punishment.

So ya, you can be in negative numbers, but you're not really even counted until you abandon a tournament.

This is basically correct. I'm not making a list with every TO's score. When a TO abandons a tournament I'll figure out his/her score and go from there.

So, you don't start at zero unless you never organized a tournament.

Lx

by **Lindax** on Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:17 am

phillipm wrote:I won a tourny a month ago, i have pm the TO many times for my medal, seems his answer is FO, can he lose points for this, not finishing a tourny?

Technically he could. However, if the only thing he did is not announce the winner, we explain the process to him and he will not lose points. Usually, after the explanation TOs announce the winners.

Please send me or another TD a pm with the name and link of the tournament.

Lx

EDIT: Case solved. TO warned.

by **ChewyBlu3y** on Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:00 am

I support this system, i believe that if people commit to organizing a tournament, they should follow through. Their actions while hosting a tournament not only affect themselves, but others as well. If he or she picks up this duty/job to organize the tournament, please follow through with it.

by **YoBFelip** on Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:17 pm

Im in a tourny "Britian through the Ages" by SkepticCS, threre has been no udates since Jul o2, said then he was getting at at

by **Lindax** on Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:49 pm

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Another request: Please report any Inactive Tournaments you are in.

They are not that easy to track for us, so your help is appreciated.

Please report them by PM, to me: Lindax

Thanks,

Lx

by **ChewyBlu3y** on Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:03 pm

viewtopic.php?t=122410

Inactive for 2months +

by **ChewyBlu3y** on Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:08 pm

questionable abandonment

viewtopic.php?t=122694

by **Lindax** on Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:00 pm

Thanks Chewy. Please send me a PM in the future.

Lx

by **Lindax** on Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:28 pm

Lindax wrote:----
Another request: Please report any Inactive Tournaments you are in.

They are not that easy to track for us, so your help is appreciated.

Please report them by PM, to me: Lindax

Thanks,

Lx

We now have a place in the forums where you can report Inactive Tournaments:

Report Inactive Tournaments Here

Lx

by **6_roller** on Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:45 am

Lindax wrote:----
Abandoned & Rescued Tournament Policy
Announced 08/18/10

Hereby I proudly present our new policy for Abandoned & Rescued Tournaments.

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Disclaimer

Once a tournament has been registered inactive the Tournament Director (TD) in charge of Abandoned & Rescued Tournaments will contact the Tournament Organizer (TO). If the TO does not respond within a week the tournament will be registered as abandoned. If the TO has not been online for at least a week, the tournament will be registered as abandoned automatically. If the TO wishes to continue the tournament or find somebody to rescue the tournament he/she has to notify the TD. If the TO does not accomplish either within a week, or another time frame deemed appropriate by the TD, the tournament will be registered as abandoned. Once a tournament is registered as abandoned the original TO loses all rights to the tournament. After that the TD can decide to try find somebody to rescue the tournament or permanently register as abandoned without permission of the original TO.

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Every abandoned tournament will result in a “fine” of 1 point.

The ladder system is as follows:

1 Point: Informal Warning and a slap on the wrist

2 Points: Official warning and a swift kick in the "tookus"

3 Points: 3 month ban from starting/hosting tournaments

4 Points: 6 month ban from starting/hosting tournaments

5 Points: 1 year ban from starting/hosting tournaments

Points will be offset as follows:

1 Point per 10 completed tournaments
1 Point per rescued and completed tournament

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Notes:

1.- A first time offense will have a maximum ban of 3 months. The accumulated points will stand.

2.- If offsetting points result in a point balance of less than 1 point the TO will still get an informal warning and the abandoned tournament(s) will be registered.

3.- TOs coming back after a ban with more than 5 points can only organize 1 tournament at a time (and rescue 1 at a time) until they are below the 5 point level.

So obviously when a TD talks to the TO, they will tell them about this one week plan, before taking away the rights?

I wish to continue my tournament, but without any notice of this one week, or any deadline given at all, it's been removed, so I can't create the games.

Crazy....