Start Games On Time

[Sufficient]

TWL next season should be the same. Announce 10 min before scheduled time and start on time. If you can't make it on time then your not goin to make it in the real world when you hafta get to work 8 AM on the dot.

http://www.rshl.org/mambo/

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Written by Icevulture
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
Teams may or may not have read some of the changes in the S13 rulebook, so I'm going to point out one of the bigger changes happening this season. Rather than having 10PM games get delayed, and delayed, and delayed some more so that they start at 10:40PM or something stupid like that, we're going to have the games starting at the times that they're scheduled to start. The referee training guide has the following in it:

-Games should be STARTING at the time they are scheduled
-If a game is scheduled for 7PM, it should not be getting announced to the zone at 7PM or 7:02 PM, it should be getting announced at 6:50PM and starting at 7PM

Consider this your formal announcement about this rule change. You need to get your teams online and ready to go so that the game can start ON TIME. If a team cannot show 4 or more people by the time the clock gets to the time your game is supposed to start, you will forfeit. If you can show enough people to your game, but they're having lag problems, the refs can wait for things to clear up so that he can start since your team had enough people when the game was scheduled to start. There are limits to how long the ref should be waiting though. I'm not going to put a firm number like "5 minutes" up there or anything, because it depends on the circumstances of the situation.

Games SHOULD be getting announced to the zone about 10 minutes earlier than they're scheduled to start, give or take a few minutes. The important thing to remember is to have your team ready to go on time so that the puck can drop when it's scheduled to drop. This rule not only makes it easier to figure out how long you're going to be playing your league game, but it's going to make things easier on the refs since they'll be able to finish the average game within the 1 hour time slot so that if they feel like helping goal judge the next game, they have the ability to do it.

Any questions, let me know.

[concealed]

i second that e-motion

my puns r money, if u dont get it fuk u

[death row]

I think that might be a little too technical. I honestly don't see a problem of the games being announced at their respective times. I mean, you could do it that way (your proposal), sure. But it's truely not that big of a deal to change things.

[Sufficient]

I think that might be a little too technical. I honestly don't see a problem of the games being announced at their respective times. I mean, you could do it that way (your proposal), sure. But it's truely not that big of a deal to change things.

I think it'd be better ... big deal or not.

[Shadowmere]

That's more important in Hockey Zone where you copied it from, than in TW.

TW players are more active than HZ ones, and delaying a game in TW doesnt cause so much trouble than it does in HZ.

Other than that, it should be up from the host to decide do they want the games adverted 10 minutes before the game is scheduled.

[Hero*]

i definately agree with suff here. If the games start at 7 exactly and not 7:08 or something, then that stupid rule that is like '30minutes after the start of the game...etc' cannot be challenged. "oh but TWLOp, the game started at 7:02". "no TWLop, it started at 7:06 therefor the rule applies!!" If the games all started on schedule, give or take a few seconds, there would be no confussion incase of a bot mishap.

[Cremation]

agreed, start advertising and making lineups 10 minutes earlier.

[King Baba]

Fiends need their fix on time, on demand. Go get me my pum'kin pie, bitch.

[Sufficient]

If you want, you can make it even more specific:

Lineups must be submitted by 4:00 PM EST (or whatever time). Saying that the game will start at exactly 4:00 PM EST (or whatever time) is a bit more ambiguous bc what if lineups have not been submitted. I hope what I said makes some sense.