You're kidding right? m2k and jman would have had to climb up through losers to earn their shot at winning. Any dropped set meaning they'd be out. They paid to be in the tournament, they get to play in the tournament, thats final.
So, you can duck any other rule in the tournament, cause you paid to play, right?
BS, you pay for the opportunity to compete within the rules, if you violate the rules, you lose that opportunity. I've run a number of events of a variety of different types (haven't TO'd yet, but whatever), and at every event I'm run, there were rules to be followed and consequences if you didn't. This assured the event would run smoothly, and that everyone would have an opportunity to enjoy it.
Without that, there would be disasters.
How many horror stories have I heard, with tournaments running WAY over time?
This **** doesn't happen randomly. a lot of the time it happens cause TOs don't set good rules and don't enforce them, because structure is what makes "on time" happen.
@ Plank
I don't know about you Plank? But when someone pays me something for a service, the serviced is tendered. And if it ISN'T tendered, that payment is refunded. If infact I find out you DQed them both, and held out on their money as well? Lol i believe the term is "Character assassination"
The service was the OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY, you are only guaranteed play if you act within the rules, like everything else is life.
Secondly, m2k is a top professional, so is jman. YES they get special treatment i'm ****ing sorry. Players like those two create the hype that even allowed you to have as many entrants as you did. You think Armada or Europe would have given a **** to fly out to your tourney if m2k, Mango, jman, hbox, or drpp weren't there? I'm sorry plank, they're not actually your friends, they came for the competition. Maybe use lava-life next time?
That behavior will get you sued.
Rules are contracts, you must apply them evenly to everyone, or at the very least make certain that exceptions (such as for top players) are noted. If you don't, then everyone else can claim violation of your contract and take you to court.
Don't think people would? This was a massive event, a lot of money went through, and since Maryland's class-action lawsuits don't have a minimum number of people, and when we consider punitive damages, well we're looking at the possibility of a massive lawsuit, so it's definitely worth it. It's also fraud, which means that criminal charges could be filed.
Your rules are your contracts, period, don't follow them and you get burned, this is real **** and could get you in a lot of trouble.
Lastly... Do you even understand why ADHD threatened you when you mentioned people being paid out in cheques?
The fact that the last tournament that ADHD won which was delivered in cheques, bounced. And he missed out on something like 1500+ dollars. He STILL has not been paid for that tournament that he flew out for and was down.
Now, I do agree however that ADHD needs to keep that **** in check, that was definitely uncalled for. They can't pay you in cash if nearly everyone paid for the tournament via online, think about it first.
That's what I thought when I first heard ADHD threatened Plank.
He took it overboard, but honestly, he has a reason to distrust it.
