COULD RUN SMOOTHER..............

Sorry about comp
Between pdb1, tujay
 
tujay wrote on 04 Jan 2015 at 6:30 PM

I am really sorry for not hanging around.  I am learning the concept on the go and did not understand I had left early.  Sorry

 
pdb1 wrote on 04 Jan 2015 at 6:42 PM

Quite alright . We'll do better next time . Thank you for your participation and especially for your response to this . All good .

Thanx Paul

May the SUN always be with you

 
pdb1 wrote on 10 Jan 2015 at 4:51 PM

Tujay are you going to make it to FLASHMOB ? It is starting .

 

Paul

 
tujay wrote on 11 Jan 2015 at 12:55 AM

Sorry but been away all day

 
pdb1 wrote on 11 Jan 2015 at 2:04 AM

OK . But the sponsors come to me and ask where are your guys . I have to go message you guys and come back to the chat and not know what to say . They end up having to remove you guys at the last minute and reshuffling the seeds . It just puts me in an embarrassing position.

 This was a WGT multi club / player tournament . Just happened that 3 of my club players were the only ones that didn't show . I of course apologized and said there had to be very good reasons and that I had told everyone not to sign up if they weren't going to be available . It was all good . The tournament went on and was very enjoyable . I'm just saying ....Lets try to not do it too often . Thanx and no worries . 

 

 
tujay wrote on 18 Jan 2015 at 9:22 PM

Mate - I will not be able to play Sunday comps as they commence at 8 am Monday Australian time.  I am at work at this time now my holidays are over.  Sorry

 
pdb1 wrote on 19 Jan 2015 at 12:21 AM

That's fine thank you for letting me know . You will be missed in the event . Please check the daily , weekday blitz we are doing . You can play at your convenience . Each day 

Thanx Paul


pdb1
1,542 Posts
01-25-2015 7:28 PM
  Tujay : I am very sorry you got that sense from what was only another miscommunication .  If you could see the certain situations ( and they are all a little different ) you would see that I try a nd stay cailm and always try to listen tio every angle ( that is if I ever get a chance to talk to them ) There are currently 3 individuals  (of which you were one of ) that had been entering the tournaments and then by some unfortunate instance by which no fault of your own I am sure of .Have left each tournament with out ever speaking a word to me . Not before , not during , and not after they have exited , and maybe never . 

 When I said you were one of those . Is because finally today one hour and a half after the tournament had started and to my knowledge had completely disappeared from contact until then .You did show up . And for the first time I was able to get your attention and we had a couple of exchanges back and forth that was to me a gr8 turning  point in the tourneys . Many of the problems occuring could have been fixed had I been talked to and given a chance to either reassign the match up or something fair to the event . 

 Not knowing if or if not a match has been able to be played has occured in every tournament . I have not just sat there and let people not give me the information but usually politely message them for an explanation .

 In one of todays situations with you when you were gone so long . It turned out that you had gone off and played with one of the other entrants . Not even your opponent . Assuming that the pregame sample bracket had the tournament match ups . 

 I have tried to tell , write , inform everyone  of the procedures in a bracket tourney .

 The list you saw still had 4 entrants on it that never showed up . I  waited the extra 20 minutes . First asking E 1 if it was OK to wait I thought E 1 said yes . 

 I then go and remove the no shows , resort the match ups so a master doesn't play a legend  and  start the tournament . All of that only takes 1 minute .

 I then go to the chat that where E 1 is looking at the real bracxet that had changed right before their eyes .

 And say the " tourney has begun ."

 Before I was able to then ask each match up to speak to one and other and decide who sets and invites .

 I notice a new person there . Someone that wasnt even on the original no show list .

 Inquiring if it was too late and may he stil enter ?

 I said of course and welcome .

 I then had to return to the admin . End the tournament , resort the match ups , and restart the tournament .

 I go back to the chat  . Ask E 1 if they are all ready ? I thought E 1 said yes . I thought the tournament would begin .

 But NO . WHY ? Because two of the enrants were off playing their own match . A master and a Legend . (which at that point nobody knew that we just knew they were gone)

 That left  4 more enrants that could not play in their matchups . I could not go back and restart because those two were gone and would not be able to play their true match ups (.unless they showed back up right away or let us know they were off playing in the wrong match up.)

 So the two match ups remaining (4 guys ) went ahead and played . 

 The tournament was over at that point even before the two match ups played . 

 Because out of the 8 guys remaining( 4 with match ups & 4 without) . They were so ticked off at me ( unjustly ) that they couldn't stop and make a match with each other , Which I had typed into the chat several times . They all left very disappointed .

 I played my match with MG , Chris played his match with Buffaloforest .

  A couple of you showed back up . 

 That was when Tujay and I were able to chat for the first time . I thought that was cool .

 Of course it was neither the place and time to inform the gang of the reason the tournament was as it was . And I did not .((( Especially in a chat room where one has to basically wait for the other person to respond. Which never happens. Because he was too busy typing to see anything anyone typed to him . By the time he looks up that screen had filled with chat and is gone .)))

 I offered to play another bracket after Chris and I played our final match .

 Some agreed and some declined . Chris and I played . He won soundly .

 To no surprize to us . Really it was fine . E 1 had gone about their ways . 

 That my friends was the short version . There was some other occurances nothing negative but not neccessary to include in the descrription .

 I am certainly not the nazi that tujay described . lol

 But as I had thought we were developing adult friendships where in the thick of things one may say something uncomfortable to the other expecting them to be able to handle it . I have encountered many with very short fuses and tempers witnessing some spontanious  combustions . lol. Usually settling and eventually straightening out 

 That being said . I  today as frustrated as I was and you could not imagine the things that were going through my head when That little feeling of being ignored and abandoned feeling was gnawing at the back of my head . 

 B ecause who knew or would ever think that the two guys that were missing from the bracket that I had not heard anything from . That were not matched up . And would  not have been if avoidable master and legend . And also at the same time that I was unaware they were also unaware that they were missing without our knowledge playing in the wrong match up .,

  Well during that moment as i was trying to search for the answers which in this case included and always does messaging and trying to politely request them to show back up or something .(several of you have been the recipients of these confusing and crazy messages . ) 

  This time I went to far though . 

  I want to apologize right now to tujay for leaving him a desparate message with the anachronym WTF & fkn . I usually never let go quite that badly but I did this time . 

 And look what it has done . I hope you accept my apology tujay . We can maturly move on .