jigglejuice
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I played a city championships today and my record was... poor to say the least. We went six rounds. Of the matches I lost , three were pretty much decided by me correcting my opponent on errors they commited in my favor or me not taking advantage of a short attention span. Here are my three situations. I did what I felt was the right thing in these situations and my play group and busted my chops for it. Was I a pushover or just being nice?
Situation one:
My opponent was playing a reshirom and I was playing a tangrowth. He had nothing left on his bench and 80 left on his reshirom. If he survived the turn he would be able to knock me out for his last prize. I only managed 60 damage on him, but being a new player he had a slight lapse in memory and thought reshirom was a 110 hp pokemon. Meaning he was scooping Reshirom up to declare it knocked out when I corrected him on his error. He then played an interview, slapped a double colorless on and outraged me for the knockout. Was it his obligation to know his cards or was I morally obligated by the spirit of the game to allow him to correct his error?
Situation 2:
This involved another player playing Reshirom. This one was around the middle of the game so I don't know how large of an impact it had, but I felt it started the ball rolling to my defeat. I had a Reshirom within two strikes of being knocked out. I struck the first blow, but his outrage wasn't enough for the knockout. So my opponent used blue flare. Having 3 fire energies on his Reshirom he began discarding all of them stating that blue flare required him to discard all energies on him to use it. I once again corrected my opponent to my own demise. Next turn he slapped an energy on and began rolling over me with outrage. Had I allowed him to discard all energies, the return attack would have been impossible and my path to the win would have been alot clearer. Once again: pushover or nice player?
Situation 3:
I played an opponent who had a habit of looking at his hand while it was in his lap during my turns. You know the kind I'm talking about. Absolutely oblivious to the other player's actions. Well we go to the 5th turn of the game and I looked over to my left side of my board and noticed I had forgotten to lay down my prizes. I am completely confident that I would have been able to slip 6 cards into the prize slot without him being the wiser, but once again being the kind of guy I am, I informed him of the situation and we agreed to give him as a prize as a penalty without calling a judge over. That might have resulted in an automatic loss for me by that point in the game. So what do you think about this one. Was I right for owning up to my forgetfulness or should I have just slipped those prizes in there and continued on? By the way I lost the match because I was one turn to late in putting an energy on a benched pokemon. Had he been required to take one more prize the benched pokemon would have finished him off.
So that is the general question posed. Where does the line for maintaining spirit of the game end and the line for being a chump, push over or sucker begin? Not just in these situations, but in the context of the game in general if you would.
Situation one:
My opponent was playing a reshirom and I was playing a tangrowth. He had nothing left on his bench and 80 left on his reshirom. If he survived the turn he would be able to knock me out for his last prize. I only managed 60 damage on him, but being a new player he had a slight lapse in memory and thought reshirom was a 110 hp pokemon. Meaning he was scooping Reshirom up to declare it knocked out when I corrected him on his error. He then played an interview, slapped a double colorless on and outraged me for the knockout. Was it his obligation to know his cards or was I morally obligated by the spirit of the game to allow him to correct his error?
Situation 2:
This involved another player playing Reshirom. This one was around the middle of the game so I don't know how large of an impact it had, but I felt it started the ball rolling to my defeat. I had a Reshirom within two strikes of being knocked out. I struck the first blow, but his outrage wasn't enough for the knockout. So my opponent used blue flare. Having 3 fire energies on his Reshirom he began discarding all of them stating that blue flare required him to discard all energies on him to use it. I once again corrected my opponent to my own demise. Next turn he slapped an energy on and began rolling over me with outrage. Had I allowed him to discard all energies, the return attack would have been impossible and my path to the win would have been alot clearer. Once again: pushover or nice player?
Situation 3:
I played an opponent who had a habit of looking at his hand while it was in his lap during my turns. You know the kind I'm talking about. Absolutely oblivious to the other player's actions. Well we go to the 5th turn of the game and I looked over to my left side of my board and noticed I had forgotten to lay down my prizes. I am completely confident that I would have been able to slip 6 cards into the prize slot without him being the wiser, but once again being the kind of guy I am, I informed him of the situation and we agreed to give him as a prize as a penalty without calling a judge over. That might have resulted in an automatic loss for me by that point in the game. So what do you think about this one. Was I right for owning up to my forgetfulness or should I have just slipped those prizes in there and continued on? By the way I lost the match because I was one turn to late in putting an energy on a benched pokemon. Had he been required to take one more prize the benched pokemon would have finished him off.
So that is the general question posed. Where does the line for maintaining spirit of the game end and the line for being a chump, push over or sucker begin? Not just in these situations, but in the context of the game in general if you would.