Life In 19x19

Calvin Clark wrote:Oh, and welcome back to L19, Violence.

I'm not here for long, just popping in to give my two cents about a dumpster fire.

Rather good then that apparantly two proctors at the location to monitor no cheating can confirm it was due to lag?

From my understanding, that was not their role in the tournament, their job was not to keep local time. If that's a role we would like them to have going forward, I do think that ...

Knotwilg wrote:There is unfortunately no middle ground. Either Mateusz lied or he didn't.

And when it comes to tournament policy, it is generally a poor decision to take a competitor at their word, especially to overturn a game result.

I think any kind of vitriol against the American team or its players is poor sportsmanship. The referee was ultimately the arbiter of this situation and using their decision to attack the American team or its players seems misguided at best.

I trust Justin Teng and given that I don't really ...

This is the only result that I believe is truly fair, and I say that as an official of 8 years for a different tournament game(which has both in person and online tournaments that suffer from timing issues). A player should not have authority over a clock unless that is already supported in the ...

What do you propose should happen in cases where there is evidence of timeout due to KGS lag?

That I'm not so sure about, and I think that's far more open to discussion. I think things should be decided immediately, and because we're here a week later, it may just be that a full rematch is the ...

Ok. I'm reading a lot about the circumstances regarding this situation and how that affects the decision that should be made here, and I think that's really approaching this situation from the wrong perspective.

Tournament policy is founded on tournament philosophy, namely, the idea that the ...

Hey guys, it's finals week and I don't really have time to spare. Gimme a week or two for this, sorry.

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Gimme a few days for this one.

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