Comment from Dorcas

On this particular comment ......"Now let's see... would it be better to refuse to play that person in the first place, or to sign up for a tourney the undesirable person is signed up for, while PLANNING to forfeit and disrupt the tourney? You tell me!" ....Yes you are right , i have thought about my decision to forfeit against Amplify which i have now done twice. I didnt do it to disrupt the tourneys , i did it out of a personal animosity towards him, not out of ill will towards the TD's in question. Hindsight is 20/20 they say and i apologize to you, Ivystung, who was the other td involved in a forfeit and any players that may have been offended. Next time i will withdraw from a tourney instead of playing if said asshole joins after i sign up.
While a league does function better when everyone plays everyone else we all know that is a fairy tale that will never come true. The initial issue for debate however wasnt about me forfeiting against a scumbag who was banned from 3 leaguesand who i share a great deal of mutual dislike with as well, it was about players who refuse to play someone else on the passing issue after the leagues , the tourney rules, the rules of wordox etc etc all state THAT IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO PASS AS A STRATEGY. Your words... "In the case of passing, when you know ahead of time your opponent will use that "strategy" - you can plan to play (or not play) accordingly. But you don't always know ahead of time, and that's when a pass feels "unethical" - because you've played the game under one assumption, and it got stomped on."
So in other words in my opinion if you sign up for a tourney there shouldnt be any assumptions when its LEGAL to pass and ANYONE can do so. And just for the record the reason i brought this up in the first place is because of a couple of lobby situations and conversations i saw recently , not games that i have personally been involved in, but if i feel the need to pass im going to do it up front ,im damn sure not going to feel guilty about it or worry about whether my stock in others eyes goes up or down, especially since its never been a blue chip stock anyway, anywhere .

Aaaah Controversy

Did i say i didnt want anyone pissed off at me ? LOL we all know that if i havent pissed off someone, somewhere , by the end of the day i havent had a good day. Well a few have weighed in with opinions on passing . The 1 thing Dorcas said that i did not agree with was the prime function of the pass button being for a rack of completely bad tiles, the submit button serves the same function, why add another button? Saying that, i usually use the same strategy Dorcas spoke about, when passed to i uisually take the free turn, but not always. And it depends on who im playing too. I notice that its usually the women of wordox as opposed to the men who get ticked off about passsing.... usually.
I dont think it makes a player weaker to pass on the final play of the game , i have seen it "bite them in the ass" tho as one person put it. However you rarely see that end of game passing going on. If the leagues and Hoyle and the rules of wordox agree that passing as a strategy is acceptable , why cant players who choose to not employ that strategy accept that there are those who will use it , and finish a game without forfeiting or otherwise causing a scene including refusing to play a person if they do use the strategy. THAT was the main reason for the initial post. And mummy , hang around ox wouldnt be the same without ya ;-).

Passing as a strategy

Would someone please explain to me what the big flap is all about over passing as a strategy? If you read the rules of wordox they state "If you choose to not make a word on your turn you may pass to your opponent" . Thats straight from the hoyle word games rules of wordox. There is also if people have noticed a button specifically for the purpose of passing. Every leagues rules also state that passing is an acceptable strategy yet there are people who get all pissed off if you pass. When the game was invented why did they put a pass button there if it was not intended to be used as a strategy? In scrabble you can pass your turn and exchange tiles , am i not correct in this? The reason for this post is because i have had it come up several times in the past few weeks in email and lobby chat. If you are in a league game or tournament competing to better your rank or your stats and a play will cost you the game but a pass may give you an oppurtinity to win please explain to me why it isnt ethical to pass. I have seen people pass and it cost them the game. In my opinion if you are in a league and your opponent passes you should use whatever strategy you can to counter the action.... if a play can be made that wont hurt you play it, if not pass back.... gamble , take a chance .... but please dont distort the rules of the game and of all the leagues by protesting when a player passes as a strategy, it makes no sense and cause only hard feelings. I personally refuse to pretend the pass button isnt there until someone can prove to me that it wasnt put there for use as a strategy. I may or may not choose to pass , it depends because i do take wild gambles and they do payoff sometimes but i damn sure dont want anyone pissed off at me when im staying well within the rules.

Battleground, Shadows comments

I want to make sure everyone knows , this site is a battleground , a mudwrestling pit , an open forum for any jabroni who wanders in to air his/her bitches anonymous or otherwise. I dont care who slings mud here , leave your name or not. And Shadow, if someone hasnt been affronted by the stuff i have put out so far something isnt working. By all means raise all the hell you want here, suggest formats tell us about whatever you want , comment on others comments , call Amplify a dirty s.o.b... i dont care just enjoy.

New blog links

Allrighty then here are some new blogs from fellow wordoxers http://360.yahoo.com/cleopatra2u
http://journals.aol.com/lolapepper/lolpepper//
http://360.yahoo.com/barbhearn
I hope you enjoy them . Its fun to read them and fun to write in them . if ya start 1 and want to link to mine or have your link added to my site please gimme a shout.

Re: Robbed

Pard, i barely remember my thoughts last night . I barely remember last night at all lol. I do know the old switcheroo got pulled on us but next week im gonna be ready for that i promise!!

one more time on cheaters

The thing that chaps my ass about any cheater , (names deleted) etc etc is the fact that they arent gonna go away. The fact is they multiply. More and more people are cheating . I said once before bring on the cheaters, i can take them 9 times out of 10 because they suck at strategy. I fucking hate to give away a win to that pile of shit(name deleted) when like someone else said everyone else is gonna suck his ass and play him. I know cheaters will be a problem here forever , do we let them rule us? tough decision all the way around. Stand on integrity and forfeit or fight it out and take a loss if they can swing the win? damned if i do and damned if i dont. im gonna post this leaving out the cheaters names because i have glorified them enough already.

This 1 is for you Junior

i Got an email from a player who raised some points i totally agree with and here is an excerpt from that letter..... So what if a great wordox player doesn't like certain formats? That doesn't make him any less great and that's why ice cream comes in different flavors. . . not everyone likes the same thing. For Junior to say that a "true champion must be able to win at all formats" is like saying a great track star has to be able to win at sprints, hurdles, and distance races or he's not a true champion. Well said!! Wish i had thought of it first lol. Anyway that being said i will consider possibly playing in some of the "gimmick" tourneys just because my day isnt complete without a few headaches.

Train Wreck

Hey Pard , did you get the number of that bus that ran over us last night? It had to be a bus cos my head hurts really really bad. Remind me to stick to beer on saturdays during the summer please. When i drink whiskey i get us into trouble because after a few shots i lose my mind and think i gotta finish the bottle. I think Mike (Ivystung) snuck up behind me and beat the hell out of me a couple of times too. I seem to have a hazy recollection of my pard kickin me a time or 2 as well. LOL i love a good drunk. If i had been out on the town they would be bailing me out this morning so Thank You God for creating Wordox to keep my drunk ass at home safe.