Crobat speaks, twice in one thread?
rroaryh, the answer to your question is in the thread which crobat linked. crobat better explains the rational than I did, I mostly answered your question "what can a judge do to me?" and the justification for applying those penalties. To round off my list of what a judge can rule as a penalty, for those who need to know, I'd say that trying to encode public knowledge in a non-deceiving way would fall under ruleslawyering.
Although, I must disagree with Liesik when he says the only reason note taking is allowed is for those who like to write TRs. I'd push the idea that note taking allows the option for players to better track the game state. A player could come into a game and use a paper to mark power usage, energy drops, etc of the opponent.
William W was a highlight of the event for sure. In fact, he is a reason I like the 40-minute rounds. 30-minute constraints are too rigid for his kind of fun--the SotG kind
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The one thing that really sucked was the long delay in getting the tournament started. I know Leah was doing her best, and this is a volunteer operation, but for those that showed up just before 11:00 and the first match didn't start till close to 1:30 is way too long. I think there could have been better communication on approximate starting times, etc.
I would think knowing the tournament had 60+ folks would have set up some kind of signal flare that this is more than 1 person can handle. In some ways I think what made it worse was that the pre-registration didn't really solve any of the problems in that it only provided a count. I would recommend if you want to have pre registration than you include POP ID#, and the basic information from the form upfront on the pre-registration so that the software program and all the data (which I think was getting entered on the fly and caused the biggest delays) could have been entered ahead of time.
The unexpected delay was truly unexpected. We've used prereg lists several times at Fairfax and this was the first time I've heard of this. Asking for POP IDs at prereg doesn't work. It assumes all players have POP IDs. I'll look into adding such fields to the prereg list so players can be inputted before the tournament day, but overtime this problem will remedy itself as Leah's tournament program has more and more players entered into it.
In most tournaments, there is only 1-2 person/people at the 1 computer. Kind of scary when it comes to a 130+ player event...
So, why use a prereg list? There are a few reasons. Some, like you said, it is for estimating the amount of players (I'd have never known we'd break 50 without one), and to provide a fair shot for everyone at getting into the tournament (I don't consider "who shows up first" to be fair at all; don't need people camping outside the store
).