Posted by Jessie_James (Ranked on Team Cribbage (The Gamer Shack) Ladder) on April 18, 2008 at 23:15:33:
I know I left suddenly the other night. I thought I’d explain why since I’ve been asked in private by a few.
The night I left there were three teams in the room. the number 1, 2 and 3 teams. The number 2 team had four players so they could play two matches at once. Something that has been decided is not against the rules and gave more chances for people to play and not sit around. So a one versus two was going on and my team, in third at the time was also playing the number 2 team.
Our (ex, current, who knows) ladder op came in the room. Now as I remember, this is the same ladder op that broke this ladder in half, taking her chosen teams to a different game site. She sent emails to supposedly (according to the email) all current and past team captains. But mysteriously, the teams that stayed at the gamer shack all had their invitations lost in the mail. (Yes, someone sent me a copy of the email. But if I wasn’t invited, I sure wasn’t going to the other site.) It appears, the new ladder didn’t make it so she now wants to come back and run one with all the people she didn’t invite to her new one.
It took her fifteen minutes to change the rules we’ve developed to do the nice things that have brought new players to a ladder that according to the teams that left with her should die.
The change, she decided that it was ok for a team to play the same team more then once in a row even if other teams are in the room. Five minute before my teams match was finished, another one vs two started. At the same time, the number two team loses a player so we would have to sit through one match before we could play again. Now, if I apply the cases, non team specific challenge rules, when that match was over, they could ask for a third one vs two. Since they would of course still be the “UP” team, the number one team would have to accept. And according to the rule interpretation, as a down team I would have had to sit through two matches before I could even challenge the number one or two team. Now it this is a fair ruling, I won’t be back.
When the ladder split, two players on teams formed new teams. The other is a tournament player on the shack and was able to get very good players for his team. I took a different approach and even talked people into learning to play crib and join teams.
This could not have been done with a few of the players that left to go to the other ladder. They used to run people out for being too slow for “THEIR” expectations. And when the team that usually did this was at the shack, somehow they could be as rude as they wanted with never any consequences. Most of us left on the shack were actually happy to see the rude ones leave. Lobby fights when they were there were almost a nightly occurrence. Since they have been gone, there hasn’t been a single argument in lobby that wasn’t handled quickly without having to bother cases by trying to do the “NICE” think. I would like to think this proved that the rudeness that used to go on was the cause of the ladder declining, not slow play as claimed by the rude ones. Seems that ladder with the chosen ones was the one to fail.
If there are going to be changes for the better, I’m sure I’ll hear about them. But until then, I can always find someplace else to play when I’m bored.
To my friends on the ladder, (most of those who play there), I’ll miss you. But as most know, I’ve been one of the few to stand up the management when I felt the majority of us were being treated unfairly. I totally expect cases to delete this, so I’ll keep a copy and will email it to anyone who asks once it’s gone. Hope to see you all again, and I still plan on going to Vegas in October so I hope to meet some of you in person there.
Oren