Daniel A said:This looks bad so far. If not at least 7 out of 9 have stated a clear YES at the latest this evening (Tuesday evening) we will not play on Thursday.
10th Confirmated the 10th
Absolut x x
Aladar -- --
Alistus ? ?
Daniel x x
FJ x ?
Gamla -- --
John x ?
labalag ? ?
Lyko x x
FAL said:Perhaps it would be a good idea to post something like:
'You need to post if you can't play for these dates. If you don't post, I assume you can play'
And then give penalties if players fail to show up when they didn't say so.
Daniel A said:FAL and Absolut,
I prefer not, because then some players may book Thursday night and then it turns out we are only say 6 out of 9 perms and thus the session will be cancelled anyway and they may have blocked other nice activities for this hot summer's evening.
The reason for our rule of playing only with at least 2 perms away is that this is a test of skill. We cannot have too many perms away, that destroys the competition.
Further more: since we already have cancelled the sessions of the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th it would be rather harsch to force people to follow the thread when they thought we had a 3-4 weeks postponement.
Daniel A said:As you can see, if you go back a little, I gave out two penalties the previous week.
Lyko got 1% inflation and labalag 2% for not responding in the thread although they were explicitly asked to do so during the last session. In the case of Lyko it was a misunderstanding on his part (about what he should do) but labalag just did not give a damn about it.
However, in this case we have first said we would postpone the game until the 24th and when having done so I do not think we can force people to follow the thread until shortly before the next playing session.
But I will try and get in contact with labalag on ICQ tonight, or you do it. Although he is neither good at answering ICQ messages.
FJ! said:Since it was deemed it was unlikely we would play on the 10th I've made some plans for the evening, wich might come to nothing. I'll say a comforting MAYBE on thursday![]()
Aha! There you make the wrong assumption that I actually COULD give an answer!Daniel A said:Exactly FJ. We lacked a confirmation, that you could play, from you, we only had this response you quote, unfortunately.
That's just part of their tacticDaniel A said:The Dutch, a hot contender, and partly professionals, just got blitzed by Greece. Yay!Down with the dutchmen.
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