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Running a tournament where the staff cannot make decisions based on a ruling majority is bad.

Very, very bad. I mean I was "head judge" for HoH last year, but that didn't give me any real authority, it just meant I handled the paper work and got to occasionally poke Dash or Desi with a cattle prod to have them do something. I never assumed that it gave me any plausible authority, because I knew that one person having any higher "say" over the rest of the staff was - IS - a godawful idea.

In a huge, messy ordeal such as running a tournament, one person cannot sufficiently review, understand, and decide on every potential situation. The only way to run something smoothly, or as smoothly as possible at least, is to rely on a democratic method.

tldr I agree with Jello as usual, although I do think that what happened with the DERP REVOLUTION was sort of a jerk-off move, because as staff, people should AVOID disruptions, not cause them. There were considerably better venues of operation than practically defacing every part of the guild and abusing one's powers.

I agree, there is a lot of trolling going on. But even in trolling there are valid opinions being stated. Real things that people have concerns over that should be addressed.

And they should be handled in a way that doesn't punish anyone.

And they should be looked over by other members of the staff before being made official.

And so on. And so on.

People will always complain, that's a given. And even though you can try to be someone's friend when you are an administrator you need to make decisions that are for the good of everyone, at appropriate times. Rule changes in the middle of the round should be reserved for when they are absolutely necessary.

Like that ring out one from this round, that was apparently changed when someone was already in the water. 3 days after the round started.

...ah, whatever. Stuff.






All things in life can be answered by the Little Red Hen.

The only mistake people have been complaining about was when KB started whining that he didn't win, and thus questioned our ruling. Provided, the judging method I used was one of the many that exist out there. At first, honestly, I didn't think people would take it so seriously. Yes, people will always complain. I accepted that fact long ago when I took up GTB. But then suddenly it was "ONE PERSON HAS ALL THE POWER." And well...it went from there.

Anyway... >:{

Questioned YOUR judging.

He won, Vintrict, and you ******** know that. You purposely changed the scores so low that you over-ruled TWO judges. One person beating out two? Ridiculous.

Vintrict, not even. Not even somewhat. Can you honestly say with a straight face the judging approach to KB's fight, while I agree that was heavily flawed mind you, has been the only problem this year?

I know you're busy and can't always monitor things the way you'd like, but for ******** sakes, you're more observant than that.

I hope you know Victrict, you just lost the best judge, that you've had the entire tournament. Not only did he do stuff he wasn't assigned, he also picked up the slack that the other judge(s) couldn't accomplish. I think that's pretty damn stupid of you, and that just proved that you're quite retarded. And you might as well ban me too, because I'm not in the Tournament anymore, and there is no point in me being here.

Go ******** yourself, and die.

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YOU DID, VINTRICT.

Two judges said he won.

One judge (You) said he lost. You purposely made your scores SO low that it beat out two people. That is retarded, and one of the stupidest ******** things you've ever done.

My god am I glad that Dana didn't allow you to help with rules for the DT.