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Quoted from fraac

Have you heard of angle shooting? Playing within the rules to fuck your opponent. It happens in poker, which is why the first rule of poker is “The good of the game” – meaning an official can arbitrarily make a decision in the interest of fairness, regardless of every other rule written down.

Admins already get a lot of flak for following rules to the letter. Can you imagine the amount of abuse and discontent volunteer staff would get if they had the ability to bend or even make up rules on an individual basis?

This would be great. In Wireplay you can just talk to b0nes if they’re denying a fair merc, which is nice.

Quoted from Collaide

Or denying to reschedule, or denying servers for “lag” that doesn’t exist? Or deny pauses etc…

In the case where one team complains about the provided server they may provide their own. If both teams cannot agree they must use a server provided by ETF2L.

Failure to schedule your games is often your own fault although there are tricks people use to gain favourable default dates. Most of which rely on the other team not doing their job.

The Pause rule is one that’s abused. We had it a couple of times in an official this season two pauses without warning or request. Technically this is against the rules. I’m not 100% on this but I believe the pause rule is roughly:

‘You may ask for a pause and the opposition is expected to pause the game without taking advantage unless a passage of play (push) is underway. At which time the push must be completed prior to the pause being enacted.’

Bad manners, name calling and verbal abuse are all covered.

There may be a few minor things that could be written into the rules but yeah it would be specific instances or incidents that could be considered.

Quoted from SmAsH

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Personally i agree with what you are saying, but then that is probs because im not a keener generally its the keeners that do this. I cant recall a game where i have ever turned down a merc request myself sometimes certain players in my team do though. However the team is playing well within the rules when not giving an RR. The only reason i say this is for example.

You are playing football, you are given a penalty shot with minutes to go which could win the game. (very similar to a golden cap) Just as the whistle blows and you start your run up the keeper falls over i bet you’d still shoot.

keeper falling over isn’t comparable to a timeout during rollout though. :P

Of course it can be abused as well, if demo really fails his rollout or whatever, he can jsut kill his connection. It still is very bad sportsmanship not doing an rr during rollout when the medic times out.

Quoted from Kuferl

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keeper falling over isn’t comparable to a timeout during rollout though. :P

Of course it can be abused as well, if demo really fails his rollout or whatever, he can jsut kill his connection. It still is very bad sportsmanship not doing an rr during rollout when the medic times out.

I can’t really imagine someone being such a retarded cunt to do such a thing, and it will be kinda obvious if he actually fails a jump then times out.

Quoted from Phnx

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I can’t really imagine someone being such a retarded cunt to do such a thing, and it will be kinda obvious if he actually fails a jump then times out.

me neither, just saying it is a possibility

Quoted from fraac

Have you heard of angle shooting? Playing within the rules to fuck your opponent. It happens in poker, which is why the first rule of poker is “The good of the game” – meaning an official can arbitrarily make a decision in the interest of fairness, regardless of every other rule written down.

ETF2L have a somewhat similar rule. If you search the rules pages for “admin discretion” I’m sure you’ll find it :)

Most stuff that can be covered by the ruleset is. Anything specific you can always contact an admin on IRC about.