Proper etiquette for flagging slow play

[itsfroze]

It's taking me to long to read this, please put me on the clock!










Thanks

 

[CreeDo]

Does it make sense to do some automatic system?

I guess you'd get a specialized clock or just a laptop with a programmed timer.
Players start this timer after the lag.

You estimate how much time you want/expect the match to take... say one hour.

- No clock for the first hour.
- Clock automatically kicks in after the first hour, at 20 seconds per.
If a player hasn't hit the ball at the 20 second mark, there's a small "ding" and the other player claims BIH.
- Two extensions or however many seems fair.
- Maybe at the TD's discretion there's a deadline, say... 1.5 or 2 hours or whatever he thinks is fair.
If it's still not done despite the shot clock after this deadline, the winner is whoever's ahead.

This might result in some griping but it requires no judgment calls or constant monitoring or subjective exaggerations from the slowplay 'victim'. It's just a simple set of rules where you either obey or get penalized.

 

[manwon]

In a tournament recently, I noticed a player playing ridiculously slowly, at least a couple of minutes for a routine shot. This was consistent during the match.
At the end of this 2 and a half hour race to seven (it was probably closer to 3 hours and there were a total of 11 racks played in the match) the losing player congratulated the victor, but also mentioned to the victor that he should probably increase the pace of his game.
The victor of course said that it was a case of sour grapes and that he was just being a bad loser.

What should the loser have done? Bearing in mind that threats to be "put on the clock", were mentioned at the beginning of the tournament, but I have never seen it enforced.

Find some one else to play, those who use this routine aren't good players or they would not pull that shit in the first place and second who needs the headache. If I gamble with some one these days (I am 52) I do not care about the money. I am after the challenge, and you can't learn anything from idiot except to not act like one yourself!!!:smile:

 

[manwon]

When someone takes that long to shoot my standard approach is to ease up behind them as they are about to shoot, then yell right in their ear, "Shoot the f*%*in shot already!!"

This usually doesn't make them shoot any more quickly, but for some reason it does make me feel a little bit better.

Your my kind of people, and the picture of Grady truly brings back some memories. When that was taken he was dangerous but always a gentleman, god bless him.

Thanks I enjoyed your responce:smile:

 

[manwon]

Anyone consider just saying,
"Hey dumbass, hurry up and shoot the f#cking ball!"?

At a boy, that is the spirit!! Sounds like something I would have said 20 years ago!! These days I do not have the energy and the spirit is in a glass over ice!!!!!:grin: