Subject: [ISSUE] "Cheating, Whats the point?"
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:30:32 +0000
From: Shane_Mussell@spring.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

"Cheating, Whats the point?" By Shane M Mussell

Hi,
I'm quite new to magic and can tell you that I'm not the only one
converting over to this great game!
After reading the Dojo for the last couple of weeks and seeing the amount
of noise this has generated I felt it only fair to let the rest of you
"PRO's" what the new comers think of it all.

So here goes..
The problem of cheating is the same in any sport, you'll always have
someone willing to take the easy way. If you think that the DCI are a
unfair by not pursuing the people who blatantly cheat, but the if you know
how to cheat properly you'll never get caught anyway!

I think the stacking of decks and strange shuffling are easy to sort out,
get a Judge to shuffle, if the Judge is suspected of cheating (and yes even
Judges can become corrupt) ban him/her from Judging events in the future.
The DCI "MUST" do something about this now before more people like me
decide to go somewhere else. It's a shame because I was looking forward to
entering tourneys and playing different people from around the country, but
if cheating is going on then why bother...

I'm certainly not going to bother going to any big tourneys, I mean if I
want to see liars and cheaters I'll go see a Politician.

Shane.