sportsmanship question.

You are playing in a team tournament.

Your team wins the first match in a best 2 out of 3. Your opponent then throws a 7 for the second match. While you are deciding who to throw against the 7 you find out their 7 has just been thrown in a match on another team he plays on. The 7 has the option of which team to olay for and decides to play for the other team.

Now keep in mind this is a higher level qualifying tournament. Your opposing captain seeks out the lo to ask if its legal form r him ti change who he throws...which by the way is not legal but never hurts to ask.

The lo comes to you and says its your option ... You can make them forfeit that match guaranteeing a win and move on to the next round without having to play a 3 match since this forfeit will give you the 2 wins you need.

Or...do you allow them to change who they throw and continue on with the match ?

More detail to help you make a decision. they only have 2-4's available to meet handicap. You have a 5 and a 3 available.

Considering those options ...what would you do ?

Celophanewrap said:

If I'm not mistaken we're talking about an APA Team tournament. If that's the case there
is no decision to be made, once the decision has been made and announced by the
captain or the acting captain there is no other option. At that point it's out of your hands
and the captains hands. When the the player has been announced He/She is the one
that must play. If you went as far as to ask the LO if they could switch I would assume
that you were just going to let them anyway, so, why not.
But according to the rules it sounds like you all had reached the point where it's no longer
at your discretion.
Many here say that rules are there for a reason and that they should be adhered to,
some of us are a little more casual. I know that in the National Tournament there is no
flexibility regarding this. At our qualifier our LO makes it a point to do her best to create
a Las Vegas like atmosphere and thus there would be no flexibility regarding this.
But just as in the National tournament prior to contacting the referee and the floor
manager it is left to the captains. Had I been in that situation, I would have asked for a
direct interpretation of the rule and left it that, given that the LO made it my choice, I
would have been (felt) forced to let them have a mulligan and pick again.
So, what did you do?

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I will try to address every ones comments and questions in my reply to celo.

I agree completely with everything you stated celo. This is a last chance tournament to qualify for our ltc's . It consists of all the teams that played in any and all of our 3 tri cups and failed to qualify for ltc.

As you state....its ran in a more serious way than regular session but would not go as far to Sa its ran as serious as our ltc in which it is exactly like nationals.

I was actually quite surprised that the lo came up to me ...called me aside with his wife who is co owner and stated I did not have ti let them change players but it was up to me whether they were allowed to or not. As a few on here stated ...i did not feel right winning due to a rule and would allow them to make a change. Both of them thanked me for displaying good sportsmanship .

I know several captains that without a doubt would have caused a lot of drama the minute the other captain went looking for the lo. I have never been one of those guys and was no about to start being one now.

This actually made my decision easier to determine who to throw. Oh yea...some one asked about the handicaps. this is a 3 man tournament with a max handicap of 14.

I threw a 5 first and they countered with a 4 . My 5 won 4-0 which gave us 3 points and them 0 . 5 points could win this round . They wanted to play their 7 next and could only play a 3 last and their 3 oughta be a 4 in my opinion. Since their 7 was out of the picture they threw a 4 instead and that allowed them to play another 4 last instead of their 3 if they so desired.

During the wait for the lo I was contemplating ....do I throw myself or do I dump my 3 and I play last against their 3 who I would be spotting 4-2 and I felt I should only be spotting 4-3. I could easily lose either match and my 3 could easily loss either match giving them a move on to the next round.

When they threw their 4 I decided to play and won 4-1 in a 4-3 race and the 3 rd match was not required because even if they won 3-0 the could not catch us.

So in the end o looked good playing the good sportsman and our team moved on only to lose the next round. Btw.....it was a lot of pressure because this was a single elimination tournament.