Favorites, into battle! - 11.

The same exact rhetoric was used with you, Flute, regarding the 14:00 deadline. The only thing I wrote to you about the 14:00 deadline was that you didn't understand the rules. I could say the same about Dave – he didn't fully understand the rules. You're confusing different points of the rules, the actual meaning of each of them, and the details of different situations. We're having a quite interesting discussion in private messages, and we stopped at a very specific question. And since you're writing in a rather, let's say, inflammatory style, I won't respond to your personal issues here anymore – let's continue in private messages from where we left off. If you're asking why I couldn't schedule an odd-even game with Kolyan last week, it's because you didn't provide a time when you were available to play. It wasn't because you didn't write to Kolyan before 14:00. But this doesn't negate the unpleasant situation – if it turned out later that, due to the lack of a message to Kolyan, he didn't find out about the odd-even game in time and didn't report his availability in time, it could have led to the cancellation of the game. Each player has their own quirks and nuances in how they communicate information or what they ignore. Regarding hypocrisy, you're writing about it because of your own inattentiveness. Russell, you're right, of course, according to the letter of the law. But in spirit, you're worrying about nonsense. Consider the time and the ability to resolve the mistake on the fly – writing about 1 hour later out of 9, and it was lucky that I read it almost immediately, or about 5 out of 9, and I read it even later. I don't remember what my personal circumstances were that day, but I assume that I was also rushing somewhere at that moment and knew that I wouldn't be able to handle the correspondence "on the fly."