Edited Alexey Chernyshov (June 15, 2015 08:19:52 AM)
Originally posted by Mark Mc Govern:This is a great point, which will find its way into my greetings speech to protect players from similar episodes.
They should be speaking quietly with the judge.
Originally posted by Alexey Chernyshov:I think it should be covered by common sense. I would rule that same way in this situation, and explain to our spectator, that if he have something to tell to judge, he should do that but in appropriate way - away from players that may affect by this.
I had a lot of conversations with players that saw this, they seem to agree with the final decision, but they think that the policy itself is not very friendly in this particular case.
Originally posted by MTR 1.11:
If spectators believe they have observed a rules or policy violation, they are encouraged to alert a judge as soon as possible. At Regular or Competitive REL, spectators are permitted to ask the players to pause the match while they alert a judge.
Originally posted by Scott Marshall:
Some discussion among L4+ judges on this interesting topic… none of us feel this is Outside Assistance.
Originally posted by Mark Mc Govern:Apply what? An infraction that wasn't committed?
I assume though that if you had sufficient belief that a spectator deliberately did this to “get around” the Outside Assistance penalty that you'd apply it anyway?
Edited Pedro Gonçalves (June 15, 2015 02:30:11 PM)
Originally posted by Scott Marshall:Mark Mc GovernApply what? An infraction that wasn't committed?
I assume though that if you had sufficient belief that a spectator deliberately did this to “get around” the Outside Assistance penalty that you'd apply it anyway?
Originally posted by Scott Marshall:1. Why would we ask the spectator to be more discreet next time? Is it just out of an abundance of caution (i.e. just because, in general, we'd like to have all such communications be out of earshot of the players), or was there something actually unwanted about how the spectator handled this in this specific case?
I would ask the player to be more discreet next time, but they did not commit an infraction.
Edited Mani Cavalieri (June 15, 2015 04:26:34 PM)
Originally posted by Mark Mc Govern:I'm far more concerned about not discouraging the kind of behavior that we want, than I am about preventing the odd corner case (which, admittedly, we don't want).
And I'd rather not have them use “I was asking the judge a question” as a Get Out of Jail Free Card.
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