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Friends, sorry for butting into the conversation, even though I wasn't a participant in the tournament. But still...
Let's say a player finds out who his future opponents in the tournament are and sends them the following message on ICQ: "Hi, we're playing in the tournament (tournament name), let me know exactly when you can play."
One sentence, short and polite. The opponent is simply obliged to provide a detailed answer about when he can play; if he remains silent, he de facto admits that he will receive zero points for not showing up for the game.
But if I write to my tournament opponent - "Hi, want to play a game?".
He agrees and loses - but I won't be able to prove that we played in the tournament: the person will logically argue that it was just a light practice game, and there was no mention of the tournament in my invitation, so he was just playing a simple game too.
In general, politeness hasn't been canceled; a couple of normal phrases to the opponent with an invitation to play - and there's no need to then create multi-page topics about who was a jerk, IMHO.
And why wave your fists after the fight now - the tournament is officially over. And the judges need to think about how to prevent this from happening in the future, as well as the players.
The simplicity of Nagan's wisdom can be accepted, but it seems they can't understand it themselves...
I fully support this 100%; if you enter a tournament, be serious about it...
In Britvotchka's case, it's the opposite; he's waiting for things to happen on their own.
People wrote to him about the clan war, he didn't say he was leaving, and he arrived when there were only 2-3 days left until the end of the tournament. So, either this is his attitude towards opponents, or it's some kind of oversight, or it's simply a policy not to consider tournament games as a reason for concern (an attitude for a few, perhaps even rare, people)!!!!:smile13:
Ушел с героев, пока пряники)