Old vs. New
from UDE's Player Management Forums
With summer upon and more players being abvailable with school out, especially younger ones, I'd like to bring up a discussion about some situations and see what we can come up with.
Lets talk about younger players in general. Younger players are an important part of any event, and especially important, as these are the players we are teaching and raising into our next generation of players. However, while older players are more likely to understand a ruling and the reasons behind it, especially where a game loss is involved, younger players don't typically have the reasoning skills or typically the knowledge of the tournament environment to understand such rulings. So this brings up point 1.
1. When dealing with younger players, what are things you do to enforce the rules, but try to avoid a potentially upsetting experience to the younger player?
Personally, when dealing with younger players, I try to remain strict in my ruling, however, try to change their perception of the ruling from a punishment to a learning experience, and each time, try to come up with something positive to say.
Something that I see occur often is a younger player enters with a deck, and is very confident in it. However, taking a closer look, it's modeled after a deck from the show. While the build may not be illegal, it's not exactly going to be winnning anything anytime soon. Often I see a player go from being really confident to fairly upset by the time the event is down.
2. What are some things you can do to take the pressure off a crushing tournament defeat? Taking a look at their deck and offering advice can be helpful, but has to be done carefully. Some kids are so entranced with what they see on the show, they don't want to hear that it really isn't any good in real life. I've been there, I bought myself 3 kaiba decks when I started so I could have 3 blue-eyes. So what are some suggestions here?
Our third situation is one I see occur a time. It's the last round, maybe second to last table, little timmy is paired against John. John is an older and more advanced player with a pretty good deck. However, his deck just wasn't running right, and now John's pretty mad that he's going to be ranked so low. Timmy is a new player, because of this, he doesn't know most of the cards in john's deck. Also, timmy deck is pretty weak.
John, who's upset decided to take it out on timmy, and doesn't hold anything back, crushing timmy during their games. Timmy, who lost the first 2 rounds, and won the 3rd and was starting to gain some confidence just got destroyed during the first game. They're about to begin the second. Noticing the pairings before the round, you had asked john to take it a little easy on timmy, John has no intention of doing so.
Clearly timmmy is going to lose the match, but what can you do afterward to try and keep timmy from losing his desire to play altogether?
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from UDE's Player Management Forums
With summer upon and more players being abvailable with school out, especially younger ones, I'd like to bring up a discussion about some situations and see what we can come up with.
Lets talk about younger players in general. Younger players are an important part of any event, and especially important, as these are the players we are teaching and raising into our next generation of players. However, while older players are more likely to understand a ruling and the reasons behind it, especially where a game loss is involved, younger players don't typically have the reasoning skills or typically the knowledge of the tournament environment to understand such rulings. So this brings up point 1.
1. When dealing with younger players, what are things you do to enforce the rules, but try to avoid a potentially upsetting experience to the younger player?
Personally, when dealing with younger players, I try to remain strict in my ruling, however, try to change their perception of the ruling from a punishment to a learning experience, and each time, try to come up with something positive to say.
Something that I see occur often is a younger player enters with a deck, and is very confident in it. However, taking a closer look, it's modeled after a deck from the show. While the build may not be illegal, it's not exactly going to be winnning anything anytime soon. Often I see a player go from being really confident to fairly upset by the time the event is down.
2. What are some things you can do to take the pressure off a crushing tournament defeat? Taking a look at their deck and offering advice can be helpful, but has to be done carefully. Some kids are so entranced with what they see on the show, they don't want to hear that it really isn't any good in real life. I've been there, I bought myself 3 kaiba decks when I started so I could have 3 blue-eyes. So what are some suggestions here?
Our third situation is one I see occur a time. It's the last round, maybe second to last table, little timmy is paired against John. John is an older and more advanced player with a pretty good deck. However, his deck just wasn't running right, and now John's pretty mad that he's going to be ranked so low. Timmy is a new player, because of this, he doesn't know most of the cards in john's deck. Also, timmy deck is pretty weak.
John, who's upset decided to take it out on timmy, and doesn't hold anything back, crushing timmy during their games. Timmy, who lost the first 2 rounds, and won the 3rd and was starting to gain some confidence just got destroyed during the first game. They're about to begin the second. Noticing the pairings before the round, you had asked john to take it a little easy on timmy, John has no intention of doing so.
Clearly timmmy is going to lose the match, but what can you do afterward to try and keep timmy from losing his desire to play altogether?
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