Metsfanmax wrote:For the long-term tournaments this is fine, but what about the short-term ones where individual rounds only last a few days? If something comes up and someone has to ditch CC for like 48 hours, it's going to mess things up if they just disappear without a sitter.
Yes, this is a valid point. I obviously do not want to hamstring tournaments nor tournament organizers (I am one).
I have tended to focus here on the long-term tournaments because those are the ones most likely to allow the situation of what happened with Jobiwan, whereas the short-term tournaments would be over before such a situation would have any kind of a significant impact.
That being said, MOST tournaments already have a "join within 48 hours" rule. Now I know your 48 hours selection was arbitrary and certainly someone could be missing for 3 days just as easily, but at least the 48-hours rule does mitigate the impact in those situations a great deal, from a slowing-down-the-tournament standpoint if the tournament organizer were willing to give stated grace periods when situations such as those come up.
There are some 24-hour rules for tournaments, but they're not a tremendous number. I don't have a great answer for them, I guess...as I said, your point is valid.
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