provisional players

poohb832

Tournaments

03 Mar 06

poohb832

Joined: 10 May 05
Moves: 199850

03 Mar 06

how is it that a provisional player can enter a grouped banded tournament? one player started at 1200 and now he is at 1600. how is that fair to the 1200 rated players? This sucks

Tengu

Joined: 20 Dec 05
Moves: 12772

03 Mar 06

i was wondering the same thing not so long ago.

any answers anyone?

schakuhr

Joined: 12 Feb 05
Moves: 47202

03 Mar 06

Originally posted by poohb832
how is it that a provisional player can enter a grouped banded tournament? one player started at 1200 and now he is at 1600. how is that fair to the 1200 rated players? This sucks

True. I think a script should be implemented that provisional rated players are automatically kicked out of tournaments with a rating limit.
Or taken care of by the tournament mods when they'll be around..

Natural Science

blunderer of pawns

Rhode (not an)Island

Joined: 17 Apr 04
Moves: 24785

18 Mar 06

Originally posted by schakuhr
True. I think a script should be implemented that provisional rated players are automatically kicked out of tournaments with a rating limit.
Or taken care of by the tournament mods when they'll be around..

I am in favor of this as well. I still feel bad about my one tournament win, a tournament I joined during my first weekend on the site without even noticing the rating group it was intended for.

RBHILL

Acts 13:48

California

Joined: 21 May 03
Moves: 227555

18 Mar 06

Originally posted by poohb832
how is it that a provisional player can enter a grouped banded tournament? one player started at 1200 and now he is at 1600. how is that fair to the 1200 rated players? This sucks

That just goes to show you that life is not fair, haha!

ExpressiveOutburst

Swansea

Joined: 21 Jan 06
Moves: 33584

18 Mar 06

in one of my tourneys there was a player that was a provisional 1250 in a 1200 and lower tourney for a start and he then rose to 1365 so that kinda wasnt fair either lol