Posts from "Crusade" Tournament (Spring 2014)

11.04.2014 darkello (Red, Conflux, Erdamon, Galtran) def Juristis (Blue, Rampart, Kairic, Kairic) 8mm6a 135

I apologize to my opponents and the organizers, but I won't be able to play any more games on HL+U, so please assign technical defeats in the remaining two games.

So, don't register for tournaments where games on HL+U templates are possible.

There should be some significant punishment for such forfeits and other similar cases. You've been playing for a long time, you're tired, you don't want to, so just give me losses. What a "lovely" desire.

If you don't realize that in your group, your games have a significant impact, and these forfeits severely undermine the fairness of the ranking distribution. If you "freely" give wins to your opponents (you have an important game with a bishop, and even with equal points, an interesting distribution can occur). Darkello played with you for who knows how long, and he just handed out free wins to the others... Considering that you can also win against them.

I'll probably agree, I sweated to win against him)))))))))))) even though he wasn't an easy opponent at all, did he throw a bone to the others?! And will that also count as a point?

It will be counted as a plus, and a plus will be equal to a point:D. But you'll have the best odds in case of a tie.

Every player, after a losing game, is in an irritated state.
The desire to leave the tournament, accuse someone of cheating, or something else is a perfectly normal reaction. What matters is how the person deals with it.
The tournament ends on July 17th. Juristis has only 2 games left. I'm sure there won't be any technical defaults, as there's a match against the previous winner (and you can score a prestige goal), and the situation in the group isn't hopeless.

And this: you can't force someone to play by threatening to punish them. This is a destructive path.
I suggest we move the further discussion to the Forum.

Thank you for the support, I will play the remaining games. It was written in a moment of emotion and fatigue; it was a tough week.

Lawyer, I know how frustrating it is when you lose a game after a hard fight, especially when it feels like you should have won. I hope you don't let it get to you too much.

Not my best game ever, but the map gave me what I needed apart from control. I should have ended the game at 211, but I went for new troops since I had all the towns. This delayed things for a couple of hours. Tazar was hard to catch since he had DD/fly, so in the end, I decided to attack with a scout. At least it was a strong scout (Kyrre), and the battle was won easily. Thanks for playing.

Opponent got an unplayable draw
And I got a playable one
We played Jebus Cross
Or rather Jebus Cross played with us