[peachy]

gerry, on Aug 24 2010, 06:18 PM, said:

jillybean, on Aug 23 2010, 11:45 AM, said:

It's no wonder this is happening when the rules of the game have been changed and individuals make their own rules on the fly.

Exactly.

I have read the rationale behind allowing people to organise tournaments of card games other than bridge, but its complete BS and to the detriment of all bridge long term.

People who might have just learnt or still be learning will likely play free tournaments before getting completely hooked, and this nonsense will put them off faster than anything...

I'm not worried of what "puts them off". What is more of a problem is that if they venture into the real world, they will be a pain in the bee-hind to get them acclimatized to how the game really is played, what the laws say, and that they should stop their constant complaining or saying *this was the rule in so-and-so tournament*. Well, TD's in real life or quality online tournaments are supposed to have good people skills, but I don't envy the TD who gets these people to their online of F2F games.

[jkdood]

peachy, on Aug 24 2010, 06:43 PM, said:

...if they venture into the real world, they will be a pain in the bee-hind to get them acclimatized to how the game really is played...

Hmmn, perhaps a new slant on ZERO TOLERANCE is being born?

[barmar]

helene_t, on Aug 23 2010, 04:26 AM, said:

The problem with no-psyche tournaments is not that some of us can't have a decent game of bridge without psyching.

Why would you even bother entering a no-psyche tourney in the first place? It's not like there's a shortage of decent tournaments on BBO.

[blackshoe]

If I see "no psychs" in a tourney description, it waves a red flag. One that says "do not play in this tourney".