Proper way to report a complaint or judging error

zman22674 · 10/12/2008, 03:28 PM

If this is the wrong forum to ask this, please let me know.

I have a friend who told me something shocking last night. She told me the last thing any player would ever want to do is email POP with any issues that arose in a premier event. She said anyone emailing POP normally receive a "not-so-nice" email from them. She said she was told take any issues to the representative for your state. Is this true? I always thought if you had any issue with the officiating at a premier event that you should contact POP and voice what you witnessed, after you went through all other channels (going to the head judge and TO).

For example and I am not going to go into details, I had several people come up to me about a ruling the HJ/TO made at a local BR tournament, as well as several other rulings the floor judge made. The ruling was completely contradictory to all the official rulings here for how this PokePower is used. I told the people who came to me since the ruling was made by the HJ/TO, then they have to accept it during the tournament, but then to email POP after the tournament was over about the entire situation. When I mentioned to another friend about this, she said never email POP and pretty much told me what I said in the paragraph above. Please tell me the proper course of action if this ever happens again, so I can tell people the correct course of action to be taken if they feel their matches were judged unfairly or inaccurately.

Thank you.

Z

***PokePop*** · 10/12/2008, 04:36 PM

Stickied at the top of the Tournament forum, you will find this: http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=reportaproblem

Yes, the best way to report a problem is to contact POP.
There are no people "in charge of your state".

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10/12/2008, 03:28 PM	#1
zman22674	Proper way to report a complaint or judging error If this is the wrong forum to ask this, please let me know. I have a friend who told me something shocking last night. She told me the last thing any player would ever want to do is email POP with any issues that arose in a premier event. She said anyone emailing POP normally receive a "not-so-nice" email from them. She said she was told take any issues to the representative for your state. Is this true? I always thought if you had any issue with the officiating at a premier event that you should contact POP and voice what you witnessed, after you went through all other channels (going to the head judge and TO). For example and I am not going to go into details, I had several people come up to me about a ruling the HJ/TO made at a local BR tournament, as well as several other rulings the floor judge made. The ruling was completely contradictory to all the official rulings here for how this PokePower is used. I told the people who came to me since the ruling was made by the HJ/TO, then they have to accept it during the tournament, but then to email POP after the tournament was over about the entire situation. When I mentioned to another friend about this, she said never email POP and pretty much told me what I said in the paragraph above. Please tell me the proper course of action if this ever happens again, so I can tell people the correct course of action to be taken if they feel their matches were judged unfairly or inaccurately. Thank you. Z

10/12/2008, 04:36 PM	#2
*PokePop* Administrator Images: 1073	Stickied at the top of the Tournament forum, you will find this: http://pokegym.net/forums/view.php?pg=reportaproblem Yes, the best way to report a problem is to contact POP. There are no people "in charge of your state".