a good debate on the Raw Deal List

[CRASHER]

they've been talking alot the last two days about time limits and the implications of the time limit and what it means... now in most cases (when I'm not being rules whored, which we all know I DESPISE) I don't really give a shit about the time limit, cause the idea is to play the game, enjoy it and learn more about the game in the process and some people are slower then others (and I know I have a sick metabolism and work at a FAST pace, faster then most people)... so I tend to ignore anything involving said time limits (which is my right as well.... it's a shame it's not in the fllor rules but a good non-rule to have in there would be nice to have the power to bend the rules a tiny bit to allow things to keep going... like we did when Brian and Bojangles had the double count-out scenario in the playoffs)... and I was wondering what people thought of the time limit and the rules of it.. they say 30-45 minutes per round is the normal rule... like I said before it bothers me none, and not to single people out but we all know Hillary and Hamus do tend to play at the slowest pace for anyone in our store

... sooooo:
time limits, what do you think and how would you resolve a game that went over the time limit ??

[MrBotibbles]

i think we should do what barron gayly did a orgins, if its a double count out, if both players aggree they can flip a coin or roll a die to see who wins. or you can let it go another 10-15 min to see how the game plays out.
the playoff thing, it was either that or ray wins, ray did win but at that time it didnt seem too fair to let ray win cuz brian went for the double count out:) PRAISE THE LORD FOR ROLLING HEADLOCK VISE!

[CRASHER]

HA HA HA HA yeah Headlock Vise !!!

man I'd have lolst my mind if my trip to the finals was down to a coin toss... but hey no one is perfect and these scenarioes do occur.. and sometimes you gotta d lib them and just fix it in the future

I can say we will NEVER determine a winner by a flip or dice roll on my watch.. it's wrong....

[yrallee]

For the tournament when we had the time limit.. it was a complete surprise to me. I wasn't expecting it, so I a) didn't think everything through and make sure I read the cards as I normally would and b) I panicked.. my best matches are long ones, so a time limit basically fucks me over.
I'm totally against time limits.. obviously..
but if I knew in advance instead of it being sprung on me when I sat down at the table it might be different.

[CRASHER]

yeah I know... well I was just as surprised by the whole thing that ensued the night before on ICQ (again why I have an ignore list right ?)... I don't intend to ever enforce the time limit thing again... it was a dick thing to have to do but the whole situation required a dick answer.... I'm sorry that it affected people that had nothing to do with it, hopefully it won't happen again....

(I'm still being too nice... I need to fix this .... 6 months ago my answer would have been tough deal with it ... damn that maturity !)