Asylum Rants - 14 - Judges Are Lazy

ror · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 36

I've only just come back to ML after a year or so break so I don't know what it was like a while ago but there are definately enough minis at the moment, usually even just after losing in one it'll only be 10-15 mins before another pops up, and that's just for the format (t2) I play.

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2449 Location: somewhere

Pilon · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 287

No matter how many minis is run per day, there is always an amount of ppl that will always say that ITS NOT ENOUGH. We give them an inch they want a foot. Period.

Bejeezus · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 1728 Location: Right Here

I don't think the problem is how many minis there are as opposed to the fact that most of them are 8-max minis. People complain a lot about how minis fill-up to fast and they never get a chance to enter. You can't expect everything to revolve around you and be done your way, make due with what you got, it's simple. If you can't deal with it, leave...

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2449 Location: somewhere

funny... last time i made a 8 max it took like 5 minutes to fill up... funny how the world works Smile

Metzel · Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 291 Location: Bob Marley

it was a mws mini those tend to take longer to fill

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2449 Location: somewhere

actually it was a appr

Dehydration · Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 193

The problem is, noone is ever satisfied. One time, Lordhawk and I made a bet on who could make more minis in a week, this was during the time when I wasnt nearly as busy (when I used to make 70 minis in a month, I think around May). So i made 5 minis at once, One appr, One MWS, One draft, and 2 in channels I created for the purpose of running those 2 minis, and two people complained that I didnt make an extended mini... Then people signed on an hour later and mini begged, saying there were never enough minis. I was understandably annoyed, so I pointed out my 5 minis, to which they complained about how I was not running any right then. What have you done for me lately. The number of minis is decent, it could be better, but think, if there were more minis, there would be more league regulars and the regulars would play more often, resulting in a lack of minis.

There is no solution to this "problem" and the current number of minis is more than enough to test decks and the like. This can also all be fixed by simply passing the judge test, it has become insanely easy over the months, to where anyone that takes the time to read saturday school for a few weeks should know enough to pass it, there are no humility opalescence questions, so just read the cards and use common sense, and all but the most retarded monkeys can pass. Whats that Craze? you failed? I stand by my statement.

I think that the most important thing to remember here is that if one runs 5 minis at once, they cant focus on each one as much as they should, and this causes delays. I felt pride in running 5 at once in a manner that caused few delays, but I could have run 2 a lot more efficiently. This was tied into Craze's post count on the first page, he posts 4 word posts, and has 3,000. I have 150ish, but the vast majority of my posts are longer than the average bear? (I dont get it either).

Minis are not easy to run either, with the lack of people reporting, a no max mini often has half of the games go unreported, meaning that the tc has to get the attention of about 20 players to figure out what happened. Dont complain, it isnt as easy as it looks to tc 4 a month, especially for people like me. I am going to high school, taking 5 AP classes, and no non-academic electives, amounting to a mountain of homework and about 4 tests per week, along with friends and football games and any IRL magic I can manage, it leaves little time to run 3+ hour tournaments. I guess what this basicially amounts to is a math problem:

Me > Craze

No thats not it, Im confused. Err, Vote Quimby