[R&S] Gambit's Cup Round 1 - Page 14

On August 20 2012 13:32 dRaW wrote:
grats + Show Spoiler +

On August 20 2012 17:44 Mewka wrote:
Try to put Gambit's Cup 3 in calendar as a broodwar events

On August 20 2012 13:42 Eywa- wrote:


Race Picking has always been a problem when it comes down to race pickers playing against race pickers. Given that race pickers are causing an issue for themselves by race picking, the following ruling will be made for race picking:

Race Picking is permitted, however, by doing so, you are taking a severe risk. There is the possibility that your opponent switches races without prior notice. If this happens, you are to play out the game, players leaving a game due to a last minute race pick will be disqualified. Switching your race during the countdown is therefore permitted, however, the player doing so must ensure that their opponent is aware of the switch and what their current race is. Random players are not considered race pickers therefore, do not have to reveal their race at game start.

This ruling is primarily to discourage race picking given that it affects only themselves, no other players should feel the effects of this at all.

On August 21 2012 01:55 HaFnium wrote:


To be honest, I don't think this is very fair. Racepickers themselves do not pose a problem itself, it's only a problem when 2 racepickers face one another. Therefore it is not fair to punish 1 racepicker by allowing last minute change and also it's not very "neat" if u know what i mean.

What I propose is the method proposed by daemonarchy in the series, although it was never enforced in that game. Racepickers have to be announced beforehead and when 2 racepickers meet, the referre needs to go into the game too. If a conensus cannot be reached, each player has to whisper to the referee about what race would they play. This avoid last minute switching and I think it should be banned.

On August 21 2012 03:18 Eywa- wrote:

This is not going to happen, simply put... We're not going to implement a solution that is perfect for the party which is causing the issue. Aside from that, it's already a ton of stress to run clan wars when they have issues, I don't need race picking to be another issue that comes up. This way, the referee doesn't have to get involved in the selection of races between the players when he's potentially running up to 4 clan wars at the same time.

On August 21 2012 03:29 HaFnium wrote:


I've said it before, racepickers DO NOT POSE a problem, it's a problem when BOTH of the players are racepickers. Your method punishes one player randomly, at least Daemonarchy's method provideds a fairer way of who's going to play without having lame last minute switches.


edit: I'm really curious about how the other leaders/members think about this...

On August 21 2012 03:39 Eywa- wrote:

And the solution only addresses if both players are race pickers.

On August 21 2012 04:07 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:
dude just remove race pickers. i remember ret learned zvz. so.. lets remove race pickers from our professional league

On August 21 2012 03:57 HaFnium wrote:


And i thought that's precisely the point since "Race Picking has always been a problem when it comes down to race pickers playing against race pickers. " from your your earlier post.

On August 21 2012 04:22 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:
wait a minute... specter play pvp zvz tvt ? OMEGE !