| | *I take it very personally, since I was among two or three others who begged you to provide stricter, clearer rules, and was rebuffed by you. I also cannot find anywhere, among our several contests, any mention that "Team Captain" is anything other than honorific. If it were a real position, with responsibilities, it would have been spelled out. What is clear, more than every, is that Andy should not ever again be team leader. He wears too many hats, and does not dispense his rulings in a fair manner, having made up new rule, new interpretations after the contest began. In what contest or sport is this allowed? The answer is, nowhere. Even though Andy on both his talk page and via email asked me to be in charge of deciding upon Categories, and even though the one I created was better umbrella category than the several we had for Government terminology, I hereby forfeit all points I took, as Andy, in his spirit of good sportsmanship, is obviously a far better judge of what is fair or decent. If it helps, I hereby invoke these powers of "Captain" that I didn't know I had, hereby also forfeit the contest also and declare Andy's team the winner. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 00:48, 25 November 2007 (EST) | | *I take it very personally, since I was among two or three others who begged you to provide stricter, clearer rules, and was rebuffed by you. I also cannot find anywhere, among our several contests, any mention that "Team Captain" is anything other than honorific. If it were a real position, with responsibilities, it would have been spelled out. What is clear, more than every, is that Andy should not ever again be team leader. He wears too many hats, and does not dispense his rulings in a fair manner, having made up new rule, new interpretations after the contest began. In what contest or sport is this allowed? The answer is, nowhere. Even though Andy on both his talk page and via email asked me to be in charge of deciding upon Categories, and even though the one I created was better umbrella category than the several we had for Government terminology, I hereby forfeit all points I took, as Andy, in his spirit of good sportsmanship, is obviously a far better judge of what is fair or decent. If it helps, I hereby invoke these powers of "Captain" that I didn't know I had, hereby also forfeit the contest also and declare Andy's team the winner. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 00:48, 25 November 2007 (EST) |
| | + | : As [[conservatives]], we welcome accountability and we should accept it in a sportsmanlike manner. That applies to me, and to all of us. And, yes, there are contests where the outcome is subject to post-contest challenges. This occurs in the Olympics, for example. You'd have a hard time finding a contest where each player awards his own points and then objects to post-contest review by an independent referee or judge! Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 10:14, 25 November 2007 (EST) |