Another CSI decision thread

Kid Dynomite said:

No, all you do is change the SUBJECT!!! This thread is not about me being "Self-righteous & Arrogant"


Now what???????

KD

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Kid Dynomite said:

No, all you do is change the SUBJECT!!! This thread is not about me being "Self-righteous & Arrogant"


Now what???????

KD

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BJTyler said:

The purpose of this thread is to discuss a topic, hear different viewpoints, and perhaps arrive at some sort of agreement or consensus. However the pompous, self-righteous indignation exhibited in your original post only serves to retard this effort. If you can't see this, I'm not sure what else I can do.

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Kid Dynomite said:

Oh, lets add pompous you forgot that one. Again, you are changing the subject and now name calling. Stay on topic if you can? Topic title = "Another CSI decision thread"

again, how am i relevant to this topic? God people reading is fundamental! LOL

KD

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Kid Dynomite said:

Oh, lets add pompous you forgot that one. Again, you are changing the subject and now name calling. Stay on topic if you can? Topic title = "Another CSI decision thread"

again, how am i relevant to this topic? God people reading is fundamental! LOL

KD

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mark187187 said:

To be fair, all you have done is attack members of the forum as being biased, for no reason other than that you don't agree with them. You haven't really contributed anything constructive to the matter in hand.

Nevertheless, backlash against a pretty inconsequential non-incident has been done to death, over multiple threads. Each thread has descended into the same personal slanging as this. If you are not happy with the state of this forum, stop adding to what is rapidly turning into a mountain of 5hit

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Kid Dynomite said:

This issue is about JUSTICE! Ah okay

Would the same action have been taken if it was SHANE getting the forfeit and KO was runner up of Ralph's bracket??? Hopefully. I have no reason to believe otherwise.

How do we as society determine if something is ETHICAL???

These questions should not EXIST!!! This board and PUBLIC outrage is paramount in facilitating JUSTICE. It being hashed out in the public and brought under public scrutiny allows the COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION to guide us democratically. That's fine. Plus it's a fun way to kill time.

If this happened in ASIA and shane was treated in this manner the OUTRAGE would be unprecedented. With that said, I can only lobby on behalf of what I think is right and how I would feel if the situation was reversed and the event was in ASIA and a USA player was treated in this manner. I would be outraged and have to be consistent and be just as outraged when a USA event mistreats a foreign player.

Yes this is America! But, come on people! Be uniform in your position on issues. Ok as long as it ain't happening to an AMERICAN!!!

KD

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So is that what all the outage is about? It's just the timing of the replacement? So had the charts not already been drawn putting in a replacement would not have been a big deal to anyone?

For whatever reason, many people on this site are just too emotionally invested in this. Why that is, I have no idea. Is it because we all had such big hopes for this tournament? Or maybe it’s because we all want professional pool to thrive so badly. Is that it? Is it because we have all been looking forward to having all these top players compete in the U.S. for some time? I really don't know what the answer to that question is. But let me pose a different hypothetical question and one that very easily could have happened.

Let's say the Ko brothers each reached the semi-finals only to realize they both had to head home or risk missing their plane. Would everyone be as outraged if CSI chose to fill those two vacancies? I'm not so sure there would be as much outage. I think everyone would have been pleased to see Appleton and SVB get another shot. Or whoever else would have filled those spots, especially if it was Efren - who everybody loves. Honestly, would everybody be outraged if CSI filled those two spots? Or would everybody understand that there was a tournament to be run and the next two players would need to step up?

Would everyone say -- "WAIT A SECOND!!! The charts have already been drawn and they were drawn in ink so they can't be erased. We must move right ahead to the finals." What if a portion of the first name was only written down on the chart? I can't imagine where we would even begin to sort out that epic moral quandary.

But I guess a rule is a rule and if the point of no return is once the chart is drawn than so be it. So the outrage is that CSI chose to break a written (or unwritten) rule by redrawing a chart. I could see that being worthy of criticism, but certainly not worthy of the death penalty or its equivalent -- no longer supporting CSI events.

I lied. Maybe I do know what's going on here. I think there are three things at play. First, we have reached a SVB saturation level. We all know he is a great player and clearly the best in the U.S. but many have simply grown tired of seeing him play. Second, many people have been suspect of the move toward invitational tournaments and excluding certain U.S. professionals from the mix. And last but most importantly, I think most of us U.S. pool fans (and our Canadian brothers) are decent people and we want to be viewed this way from the international players when they come here. We don't want them to feel slighted in the least because this makes us all look bad in a sense.

Now when you throw these three things into a blender and mix them all up you get the type of outrage that we have seen on this forum. But if you don't mix these things together and you just look at what actually took place in this tournament I don't think you will be as outraged. Instead, you will just possibly conclude that CSI made a mistake by redrawing the brackets after the fact. They didn't set out to screw someone over since this is not something they have a history of doing, at least not without a good reason. They weren't trying to push Shane into the final because he's their poster boy because had this happened in Appleton's group, I'm certain they would have done the same thing.

So just look at what happened. Is the outrage here REALLY because they redrew a portion of the bracket after the fact or are other things at play here?

I for one -- think there are other things at play and CSI really deserves better than that.

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BasementDweller said:

Your post just solidified my theory as to why there is so much outrage over this. In case you missed it - here were my thoughts I posted in the other thread. You can skip right to the bolded part if you want:

http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=4825673&postcount=137

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Kid Dynomite said:

Name one person I have attacked???

I was the one to mention the 3 players in 3/4th place and the money NOT working out or conforming to what was published! Check my post history and you will see I exposed that issue first and added awareness of that dilemma.

So what, did you add and what was thought provoking that was contributed other than regurgitating your opinion?

Me being forced to respond to this BS is taking us further and further OFF topic! But, hey that is what you want!!!

KD

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mark187187 said:

I think saying that SVBs fans are hypocritical is a personal attack on a lot of people. But, nevermind, generalisations don't count as attacks.

So i did not attack!

Regarding the 3 people in 3rd and 4th place, at this moment I am presuming that Ralf didn't get any prize money. Despite rumours (from a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend) that Ralf got a payout, I'll wait for a official statement confirming this rather than jump pn gossip. You didn't 'expose' anything other than a guess, which you pass off as truth, again to back up your point about bias.

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Kid Dynomite said:

Fact:

Ralph did not EARN 5/8th money!
Ralph because of his record earned 3/4th!

what he got paid or did not get paid is completely irrelevant to what he DID earn!

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mark187187 said:

I was being sarcastic- attacking a bunch of people through generalisations and nonsense accusations does count as attacks.

With regards the rest of your post- it reads as nonsense. Either Ralf got prize money or he didn't. I think you're hinting at some sort of conspiracy for Ralf to succeed in this tournament, even match-fixing. If I'm wrong, please clarify. But if I've understood you correctly, perhaps to could expand. It sounds like you may have entered the twilight zone, or an episode of twin peaks with Michael Moore guest starring

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