The Elite Championship - Season 1 [winner: Pharmafan!]

[Alan Klaus]

6) my initial statement was based on my memory, not looking things up: "Well this sucks... I had a statement in my head about going 'past' 4 days and I guess incorrectly thought that meant showing 5 days on the game." It turns out that is 100% accurate and includes a level of self responsibility rather than blame. How's that being unsportsmanlike? Then I offered a suggestion for clarity after losing a game on a misunderstanding. Magic replied "It is as clear as possible, pharmafan understood it and when I at first set the timeout to 3 days, some players told me it was too short, because they did understand I meant "3 days"". That is not correct, it could DEFINITELY be more clear. A simple rule should not need further reading to be understood. As I said "passed the 4 day timeout" to me meant showing "5 days ago". As you said, I could literally timeout at that point *but I knew I had almost 24 hours left before that happened!*

7) Magic: "There is nothing wrong in playing one turn per day, whereas there is something wrong when it comes to 4 days." Saying something is "wrong" is an opinion... slow periods followed by spurts like 25 moves in 24 hours evens out to much faster than one turn per day. I just didn't have many games going at once because there was no stated timeframe at first, it seemed rather flexible, and I wasn't crazy far behind some other players. It also adds a moral twist to the rule debate, which is silly.

8) You are within your rights to claim a win on a timeout and I never said otherwise. Exercising that right is not sporting of you based on my set of values, but I didn't bring that up until you attacked me. It'd be one thing if I was a full 24 or 48 hours over... but it was less than a night's sleep as I went to bed in good standing planning to play in the morning (and I thought I'd still have the entire day based on my reading of the rule). I also wanted to finish that game just for the fun of it. As Ler4t said, this tourny is great fun to play all of you strategists!

9) Of course I agree you're awesome at this game... everyone in the top-20 (or more) has hugely dangerous moves.