Denying entrance to a tournament
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For the last couple of months I've been running tournaments at a coffee shop,after asking the manager for permission of course.
The problem here is that it all started as a way for a little group of people to spend our Sunday mornings but eventually word spread and more and more people started coming.Of course I've never refused entrance to anyone but since the tournament is run on a foreign shop at store hours I want to be able to control it.And having over 20 people basically using the whole floor for the tournament could be easily characterized as abusing one's hospitality.
Also and most important most of the newest players have no respect for the place.Last week when I had my record of 18 players (of whom at least 6 were new,and 3 or 4 were playing for the second time), by the end of the tournament there were cigarette butts and ashes all over the floor and even inside a glass.I did ask everyone to behave but they pretty much ignored me.
And I know I should have given a penalty to the offender(s) but quite frankly I had no idea who did it.
So is there a way to deny someone entrance to my tournament?
I know it's not the best thing to do,and it certainly doesn't make me look good but I want to continue running my tournaments, and making a mess out of the store and constantly shouting isn't really making things easier.So if I have to deny someone from entering my tournament in order to preserve it in the long run I'm willing to do it..
Thank you,
and sorry for the long post.
Click here to view the full discussion Then feel free to return to discuss the subject here.The problem here is that it all started as a way for a little group of people to spend our Sunday mornings but eventually word spread and more and more people started coming.Of course I've never refused entrance to anyone but since the tournament is run on a foreign shop at store hours I want to be able to control it.And having over 20 people basically using the whole floor for the tournament could be easily characterized as abusing one's hospitality.
Also and most important most of the newest players have no respect for the place.Last week when I had my record of 18 players (of whom at least 6 were new,and 3 or 4 were playing for the second time), by the end of the tournament there were cigarette butts and ashes all over the floor and even inside a glass.I did ask everyone to behave but they pretty much ignored me.
And I know I should have given a penalty to the offender(s) but quite frankly I had no idea who did it.
So is there a way to deny someone entrance to my tournament?
I know it's not the best thing to do,and it certainly doesn't make me look good but I want to continue running my tournaments, and making a mess out of the store and constantly shouting isn't really making things easier.So if I have to deny someone from entering my tournament in order to preserve it in the long run I'm willing to do it..
Thank you,
and sorry for the long post.