Subject: Humor: DCI Requests Level 2 Lap Judges Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:28:41 -0700 From: "Marble Quarry" To: The DCI officially requests sanctioned Lap Judges for the next Pro Tour. My source close to the top of the DCI ladder said the following: "We at the DCI have learned our lesson and have seen the posts on the Dojo we need to take action and we have... starting with the next Pro Tour we will instigate the following anti-cheating measures. 1) All people... including non-participants will be searched upon entering or re-entering the premises. We will have to manually search people but for convenience we will have Female checkers for the men and visa versa. 2) All players will be randomly Lap checked at various times during the day. This new check will involve a judge manually checking the players lap and under their buttocks, any low cut shirts may need checking as well... but we are waiting for word from the Top on this one. 3) Between rounds all players will be watched on closed circuit TV and any going into the restrooms will be manually searched again upon re-entry. 4) Each Top 8 match will have one Head Judge and two lap judges who will watch each players lap for the duration of the matches. We may also do this with featured matches but the cost may go over our budget. We at DCI hope this will ease players concerns and return magic to the sport it was in the beginning. Thank you for reporting this John...." Well all I could say was thank you and I hope this post will put to rest many of the issues bothering the players out there and bring magic back to it's true spirit. John Coccaro jcoccaro@yahoo.com