Slitherine

expendablecinc wrote:

Why bother? Just give him and his partner the game as a walkover and go and do something else with your time. That's what I would do, instantly. You only get one life and it's too short to spend it with people like that. If a wargame means that much to him, let him have it.

It's precisely because of people like him that I rarely go to competitions now. Pay £5 a gallon for petrol to get there or hand over a wad of cash as petrol money to the friend who does the driving, only to end up playing someone who removes all the fun from the activity with the social grace of a stroppy hormonal teenager?! No thanks.

As a comp organiser the other side of it goes as well. I had been drumming up support and promoting FoG in my area. A couple of chaps expressed some interest and when I finally asked for confirmation of attendance replied.

"Not sure- I played in a comp once in 6th edition and played some people who were a$$h0les". If people are that damaged by one incident god-knows-how-many-years-ago and bring that attitude to the comp I'd rather not have them.

That's a good point, but it really does come down to time and expenditure for me and probably many others. Petrol and diesel is ridiculously expensive in the UK now, without wishing to be political as this is not a politics forum and for the benefit of non UK members, it has got to the point where the Government may well lose the next General Election with petrol prices as major factor, it really is THAT expensive! Add to that the fact that though I work 5 days a week, I don't get two days off consecutively, then wasting my time with assh*les is really gonna p*ss me off. I don't call that being damaged, it's just a better use of my time.

On the plus side, those comments really apply to DBM tournaments I have played at. I've played in one FoG tournament and enjoyed it despite coming last so perhaps all hope is not lost!

That's a good point, but it really does come down to time and expenditure for me and probably many others. Petrol and diesel is ridiculously expensive in the UK now, without wishing to be political as this is not a politics forum and for the benefit of non UK members, it has got to the point where the Government may well lose the next General Election with petrol prices as major factor, it really is THAT expensive! Add to that the fact that though I work 5 days a week, I don't get two days off consecutively, then wasting my time with assh*les is really gonna p*ss me off. I don't call that being damaged, it's just a better use of my time.

Hear hear Alan a good point as if we do not have enough problems already .