Subject: MTG Players, Check out your ratings!!
Date: 11 Jun 1998 11:32:52 GMT
From: papabahama@aol.com (PapaBahama)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc

Wizards has gone and started to incorporate all of there games onto a single
page. When you punch up your DCI number to check your rating you will be faced
with C-23 and Xena ratings.
    I for one will probably never play either one of those two, I am quite sure
I will NEVER play in a sanctioned Xena tournament. I realize that it is wizards
page and they can arrange it anyway that they want, but first of all, I don't
want to have to see that stuff everytime I check my MAGIC rating; organize it
some other way, wizards. Separate the two. Xena should never befoul a page with
magic on it, never!
    Secondly, It seems like starting a Xena ranking and C-23 ranking, and
following these results and records might take a little bit of man power, and
many hours of work. Why would wizards start this when they haven't found a
reasonable system yet to track magic results, when magic is the bread and
butter. The recording of magic tournament results is too slow and inadequate,
and often filled with errors. So what does wizards do? They give the guys at
DCI more work to do.
      I am not sure what the problem is here. If the DCI is over burdened, hire
another person to type in results. If it is being ran poorly, sack someboby and
put a competent person in there. I am not sure what the answer may be, but I
know that you don't put a heavier load onto a sinking ship!
     My last two cents worth: Jeff Donais. He turned your troubled Andon
tornament scene around. Replace him (with someone equally competent) send his
butt to WOTC, and put him in charge of the DCI with a fat raise! If he can fix
the DCI, he deserves whatever he demands.
     Yes, this letter is being written while I am still peeved after checking
the wizards page. And yes, it is probably harsher then it should be, maybe, but
the DCI handling tournament results has been mishandled for years. Why do
competitive players go to all of these smaller tournaments, that are so hard to
keep up with??? For points. They want to increase their rating in hopes to get
someplace in this game. Tournaments are all but meaningless, for many, if there
are no points involved with it.
     Whether you as a player are happy with something that wizards does, or
unhappy, you should take the time to let them know what you think about
something. Write them, call them, sky write it, something. It is a chance to
help tell them popular opinion of something they have done.
     Wizards, get a clue. I don't expect you to ask permission fron the mass
populace which way you should do things. But when you do do something, and
everyone gets in an uproar, make a note, then make a change. That might be a
good policy to follow.

A disgruntled DCI player,
Bahama Papa