Subject: Fixing the PTQ system Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 22:37:41 PST From: "yogi olivarez" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com hello all well here is my attempt to be cathy :) i will present each argument in a list then explain each further in the post so skip down to what urks you the most 1 qualified people should be let to play in ptq's 2 no more invites for the top 50 rated players 3 every winner of a ptq is invited to the next four ptq's (excluding worlds of course) second and beyond will only get one 4 all matches are given three turns to complete game when time is called 5 north americans get payed airfare to european pts instead of the $250 in cash 1 first suggestion is that q'd players still can play this one rule by itself drastically reduced the amount of people going to ptq's/ my ways to improve what was an easy way to cheat/ first all players already q'd will have to register as a qualified player at the start of the tourny/ what this will do will help judges figure out who to keep an eye on in the tourny so when an occasion does arise that could present a problem then they watch the match plain and simple/ if a judge cant tell or refuses to be a hard ass when dealing with collusion then he shouldnt be watching/ hell all the good judges know whos' matchups to watch/ and for the argument that you get beat by a pro is just plain silly if you cant stand the heat play arena/ aslo you cant pass up the fact that q'd players often bring people with them to off set the expenses of traveling every week who wouldnt neccessarily go/ hell attendance has dropped by over half since the rule was implemented this doesnt make for competitive tournies/ i was at tournies this season with around 30 people whats up with that 2 its just plain to easy to cheat or abuse this invite policy/ i can run a tourny with 8 other people that are friends who have never played before and that i provided the deck for and got someone to be a judge for the evening and boost my rateing without breaking any kind of rule none whatsoever and thats without plain outright cheating/ under the new system you no longer have to be any level judge to judge a sanctioned ttourny no experience at all/ with running tournies in your basement and this new rule it is plain to abuseable/ or you can be a store owner that never reports his losses but instead inserts his wives dci number/ so you can see this is just not right also it would free up invites for my other suggestions 3 this would bring new life all around/ not only would it encourage people to play in unpopular european ptq's but also give hope to those one timers(you know those people who just want to q for one ptq)/ just think about what new life this would create for the game/ it would diffuse the problem with qualified people colludeing with teammates(since they should already be qualified themselves)/ but they would also give the wannabes hope of being a playa/ ptqs really need a drastic change for the whole system and this would create a renewed hope for hopefuls :)/ aslo only the winner should get this if there is more than one slot then they just get one invite/ and qualified people would be enticed to win since they may be getting close to being unqualified 4 this would help for people stretching out there turns so they can win this would not add any great amount of time to a tourny(unless its run by andon) this is the right thing to do hell most organizers rarely know how to implement the three turn rule and they dont always remind you of time so you know to hurry 5 hey we should get the same prize as the europeans an asians so foriegn pts arent so crappy europeans and asians get paid airfare why shouldnt we well im getting sleepy thats why 4&5 are so short so reply and add to what i have so when origens comes around we can get soome new rules in place cya y0g1 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com