Indeed, just enought to sneak ahead of Mr Ruddock who got 49 on Satruday and well well not talk about SundayTimChild wrote:We noticed the disbelief - however, 50 points out of 50 on the Sunday makes up for a lot of sins on the Saturday!
Tim
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Umpiring was very very easy compared to my old DBX days as an umpire. There were probably 5-10 calls per session and usually pretty easy to resolve. Nothing very contentious. On average they took under 30 seconds each and I doubt it lost me more than 5 minutes in total. At the height of DBX with such a comp I would have had 25 calls on average and some would take me 3-4 minutes to resolve. So a much easier job. As someone has said I think the rules bring out the best in us all - as generals and as hobby enthusiasts.I would like to add a plug for the rules as well as a general comment on the way the games were played. My games had no umpire calls, in fact I cannot remember anything much that was even disputed. Not only that, I did not notice any umpire calls at adjacent games.
Some of this may be due to the fact that the Hussites were getting a bit of a pasting and my opponents were generally too pleased to argue. However, having now tried two variants of the Hussite army and been unsuccessful with both, I am going to persist and try another army design.
)Thanks to all the good spirited players who help everthing move along so fluidly.
I have already volunteered to play and umpire at Warfare 09. I am not sure my Britons will be coming along next year though as they are still licking their many wounds from the Sunday.
Cheers
Si
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Although in some ways the split in the DBM scene into FOG/DBM/DBMM (and FoW and some others as well - Andy Wilcox was playing WHF for example) is a shame, it does have benefits.
In the old days, when I umpired the DBM at Warfare I had up to 70 games "under my wing" and there were plenty of things to keep me busy. This year (like last) the umpiring was shared between a number of us. Phil Jelley seemed to have virtually nothing to do as DBM umpire, and got through a good book. He managed a game on the Sunday morning.
I umpired the DBMM games and managed to get 2 games of DBMM in on the Sunday and a try-out of FoG on the Saturday afternoon, with very few umpire calls required, and none of those particularly contentious or long.
By sharing the load, we may be entering a new era of viable player-umpiring. My only major concern was on the Sunday morning, when what I had expected to be a short trouncing of my African Vandals by Huns turned into a real humdinger wich went the full distance (one of the best games I can remember for years, during which we turned the table a full 180 degrees - including the Hunnic baggage!) and I feared that we'd not get the scores into the machine. However, Phil had got himself beaten up by David Cutner and was able to filling in manfully at the computer.
Tim Child
In the old days, when I umpired the DBM at Warfare I had up to 70 games "under my wing" and there were plenty of things to keep me busy. This year (like last) the umpiring was shared between a number of us. Phil Jelley seemed to have virtually nothing to do as DBM umpire, and got through a good book. He managed a game on the Sunday morning.
I umpired the DBMM games and managed to get 2 games of DBMM in on the Sunday and a try-out of FoG on the Saturday afternoon, with very few umpire calls required, and none of those particularly contentious or long.
By sharing the load, we may be entering a new era of viable player-umpiring. My only major concern was on the Sunday morning, when what I had expected to be a short trouncing of my African Vandals by Huns turned into a real humdinger wich went the full distance (one of the best games I can remember for years, during which we turned the table a full 180 degrees - including the Hunnic baggage!) and I feared that we'd not get the scores into the machine. However, Phil had got himself beaten up by David Cutner and was able to filling in manfully at the computer.
Tim Child