Reecius front Frontline Gaming interviews Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, and Alex Fennell who received a $5,000 sportsmanship award from Marc during the Las Vegas Open 2018 and how that grew into a $15,000 donation to a children’s hospital!
Hey Reecius!
Just commenting to state my support for how very professionally I feel frontlinegaming is handling this whole issue.
Warhammer is, and has always been, a game with a certain level of “gentlemans agreement” between the players. It has also been a game with no “DM” or judge for everything but rogue trader ( and not really even then).
I am appreciating the maturity and sincerity in which you guys are addressing a very difficult issue in the (quite large) “grey” area of the game and looking forward to how the LVO and other tournaments will more formally resolve issues such as this.
Hey, thanks very much for the kind words, Tacitus! Much appreciated.
I think it should also be mentioned that in situations where a player may say something like, “oh, I forgot to do this last phase, can I just go back and blah blah blah”, it not only puts the opponent on the spot to agree under penalty of coming off as having a bad attitude, it is also unwittingly encouraged by a lot of Tournament scoring rules where you are asked to weigh in on sportsmanship.
People may agree to allowing a fudge because they are after those points, although the two things should not be relevant to each-other.
I don’t have any ideas how to address this, but simply putting, “rank your opponent on sportsmanship 1-5, this score shouldn’t reflect rule adherence, etc…” may not be enough to get players to speak up.
In a way, sportsmanship scores may potentially be hurting a player’s internal enjoyment because of the pressure to do things out of character or, like Geoff said, shut down a player who may be trying to play fast and loose.