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Is this venue in PA? we got one kinda like that an hour or so North. Like fer razzle.
No this is in NW Indiana. When it comes to certain prizes we get so much cheese and prize hawking it is sickening. I feel like I went to Wisconsin with all the cheese.
And we go to lengths to communicate to people that they are not "cops". The judge's job, in my opinion, is to create an event that is equitable to all players. To give each player an equal opportunity to play the game. A cop's job is very different. Their job is to deal with the crimes at hand. But it is pretty evident that different communities have different interactions (response-time, community assistance, etc.) with the police.
As indicated elsewhere, stalling is cheating. If someone looks at their opponent and says "Well, I'm going to take 3 minutes here and run down the clock." they are going to be told "no, that's cheating, you've just lost the game."
But let's be honest - no on stalls like that. They do more subtle things like giving the appearance of thinking, or forgetting it's their turn and then moving, and so on. I can say very easily that if you are caught stalling you will be DQ'd, but I dare anyone to give me a clear criteria that an observing judge would be able to apply to make that determination. So for this abuse, the best we can do is look to the opponent to say "hey, you're taking kind of a long time, and I'm just going to ask the judge to keep an eye on our game because I don't want to lose because you're chewing down the clock unfairly."
I have seen players that I know are extraordinarily honest takes a long time to make a decision. Heck, I know I sometimes get overwhelmed with the number of decisions I have to choose from and which will be the best course of action - and it's sometimes can appear to an opponent that I'm just running down the clock. That person should be prodded that they need to play more quickly, but I'm extremely reluctant to start offering people a free win by calling out "hey, this guy just took 2 minutes and 8 seconds for a decision, I should win 'cause he's stalling!"
Anyone with a litmus test that can be used, I'm way open to listening. Anyone who just wants to say that our system is bad without offering an alternative method of implementing a fair and equitable system, well, I'll read your post but will be unlikely to reply to it.
Here was my situation and I never said anything during the game. (in future I will) my oponent today was stalling, no ifs ands or buts. He sat and stared not saying anything, reread his cards, my cards, asked me my opinion on what he should do or could do etc. He has been playing over 2 years. He always plays this way, I only play him now and then because of tournament play. It is the most annoying thing. Tutling is on thing, I say it is a strategy as it forces the other team to go and get the other characters, like the movie 300, forcing the opponent into an ambush situation. This guys just sits there and does nothing when both characters have no outwit, no perplex and 2 tokens! I don't turtle, I don't stall, I like all out attack, however this type of stalling is crazy when it is timed tournament. If it was not timed I could care less how long it is taking. I discussed with my judge that if up against this player for Thanos, I will be calling the judge over quite a bit. In my first game today, I was taking long so I stopped my turn, cleared and let my opponent play without doing all I could or would have done. I try to limit the time my turns take out of courtesy. I played a 45 minute game with this guy once and got 4 turns in. FOUR!! (my own stupidity for not calling him out, as I didn't want to look like I was being petty or deuchey) I try to be ready for my turn and make my moves actions in under a minute, in other words my strategy is prepared before my turn. Sorry for the vent, just frustrating as all get out when people do this.
There is a reason that offiical tournament guide says a judge can add +/- 5 minutes to a round: so that no one is ever exactly sure when the game will be over. Time is supposed to be called in three different ways during that game: ~25 minutes in (halfway), ~10 minutes remaining, and last action. Beyond those three times, nobody except the judge(s) should have any idea exactly how much time remains. It keeps things fair and balanced in those last few minutes.
At tournaments I run I have been known to call out times at different intervals in different rounds. perhaps first round I call it at 25, 15, 10 . next round I might go 20, 10 , 5. it keeps the players unaware and yet attuned to their game, not on the clock. I have even done the extend the rond abit if I do see someone "stalling" .