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| Written by Christopher Rowe |
| Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:21 |
| I think Ian makes a perfectly good point here, which is just being waved away under the idea that tournaments should enforce the rules. The first incident is a different issue, but the second and third issues are not enforcing rules, because the rules do not exist. They are not a case of punishing people for breaking rules, they are a case of people being cynical, pedantic and harsh for no due cause. There is no rule that says once a score is written down it cannot be altered. Obviously once the hand has been shuffled back into the tiles then it would be a bit late to claim you had some yaku which wasn't counted at the time, but whether it was a mangan or a dealer mangan is fairly easy to recall, even a round or two later. The same applies for the third rule. A false call of Ron or Tsumo when a hand is not a valid winning hand is a chombo penalty. However, I don't recall ever reading anything in the EMA rules (or any other Riichi rules for that matter) stating that a call of Pon can't be changed to a Ron. Sure, it's a fairly elementary mistake that shouldn't happen in the first place, but it makes no actual difference to the outcome of the game whether they call Ron from the start, or initially call Pon and then change it before they discard. There were similarly ridiculous calls at the UK Open, one in particular I heard of being against a player who on their first turn would make their discard before drawing their tile. Not a good habit, but a player claiming that it meant they should have a dead hand because their hand temporarily (for about half a second) contained 12 tiles is just ridiculous. Players shouldn't be continually looking to have even the tiniest of potential rule violations by their opponents to be punished. I think it's terrible that someone would want to want to win so much that they'd sink to such pedantic and unsavoury behaviour. It shouldn't be the case that you've got people looking out to penalise you for even the slightest error. It's quite easy to become nervous and/or excited at the tournaments, and these sorts of things are perfectly likely to happen. It's even easier if the play is going faster than you're used to, and you're feeling pressured for time. To enforce rules is one thing, and it should definitely be done at tournaments, but punishing for the sake of punishing is unnecessary, and I think it will sour the game, as it will lead to the sort of backhanded tactics as in Ian's first hand to be more prevalent. If someone miscalculates their hand, and you notice, you should say whether it's to your advantage or not, if for no other reason than I think you'd rather they did the same to you. It shouldn't ever be the case that players are deliberately allowing other players to make mistakes because it's in their own interest not to say anything. |
| Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:31 |
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