Posted by emanofang (Platinum) (Ranked 3 on Backgammon (Club Games) Ladder) on July 04, 2006 at 15:00:49:
Common courtesy if one of top players is going to disappear for any decent length of time is to take a voluntary rank reduction
Traverscty did it a couple weeks ago. Most didnt even notice.
Now we have had a nice long 4-day weekend for many of us. What do we have? #1 idle for 3.7 days and counting.
Pensive has been #2 the entire time I believe, and has been unable to have a shot at number 1 the entire weekend.
Rules say that one must play as often once in top 10 as before top 10.
Last week #1 averaged about 4 matches a day.
0 saturday
0 sunday
0 monday
0 first 18 hours of Tuesday.
Courtesy would be to take a belated rank reduction upon return.