Umpiring

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:19 am

Is it really so bad?

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:34 pm

Do you worry that sometimes you might just have too much time on your hands?

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:36 pm

No, I worry about suicidal umpires.

kevinj · Post by **kevinj** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:55 pm

It's not surprising when you consider some of the ludicrous things that players ask. 2 favourites of mine:

1) Two people who had been playing for over an hour asked me to adjudicate whether a piece of green carpet represented a wood or a hill.

2) Somebody asked for a ruling based on where things had been 10 minutes before they called me.

gozerius · Post by **gozerius** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:21 pm

My favorite was when a pair of players decided to play a match from an ongoing campaign rather than their tournament armies because they were running out of time to get their campaign moves in. No problem. The round was forfieted, but one guy still came in 2nd overall.

MatteoPasi · Post by **MatteoPasi** » Fri May 13, 2011 3:25 pm

gozerius wrote:My favorite was when a pair of players decided to play a match from an ongoing campaign rather than their tournament armies because they were running out of time to get their campaign moves in. No problem. The round was forfieted, but one guy still came in 2nd overall.

This is the right spirit af the hobby

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Mon May 16, 2011 3:08 pm

It is very tough to ask people to give up their social have fun gaming time to not play.

This is more so the case when you have unde 12 attendees and possibly an odd number.