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**Orkeosaurus**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Chipmunking? Que?

Taking down your opponent's soft scores to try and take them out of the running.

It also includes other things you do in a tournament to try and win outside of playing well/painting/being a good sport/whatever you're supposed to be doing.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Wow. Thats. Just....lame.

Does winning really matter that much to some folk? Bloody hell!

**Hellfury**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Wow. Thats. Just....lame.

Does winning really matter that much to some folk? Bloody hell!

It takes all kinds of people to play this game, sadly there is that element.

Which is one reason why I vastly prefer to play people informally, for fun. Because thats the point.
Fun to me isn't dealing with some mouthbreathing neckbeard trying to eek out every advantage so that he can feel he has accomplished something with his life using dollies.

In all fairness, this sort of person is extremely rare. But all it takes is one for the whole tourney experience to really lose its flavor...fast.

**willydstyle**

I don't think that it's "extremely rare" at all. At a tournament series in Sacramento they "local" players routinely drop out-of-towners' sports scores for spurious reasons. They usually don't completely tank them, but just dropping them a point or two will often put players out of the running for best overall, and immediately disqualify them for best sports.

**skyth**

Not to mention the common tanking sports and painting scores because of the person playing a powerful list.

(which is more bullying than chipmunking, but it is related)

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

That is just dumb.

Time for another thread I think, to avoid hijacking this 'un.

**H.B.M.C.**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:That is just dumb.

I'm really surprised that you're surprised by this Grotsnik. Either they do things really differently in the mother country compared to here and the US or you just haven't paid much attention to general tournament etiquette. I really thought that that kind of behaviour was, if not common, at least well known about.

BYE

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Only played in one, and that was more than enough for me.

Anyways, divergent thread now open for business, so please feel free to return this one to it's topic

**Black Blow Fly**

malfred wrote:
Polonius wrote:The problem with sportsmanship is that unlike paint, comp, or battle, there's no reason to expect anything less than perfect sports from every player.

The main problem with sports is that the biggest tools will simply chipmunk their opponents by giving them all low scores.

I don't know if you've done much tournament gaming MDG, but the elimination of poor sportsmanship has more to do with judges ability and willingness to toss people that are cheating, stalling, being offensive, etc. rather than any score you can give them.

How far do you think they can chipmunk in a ranking sports system?

You have heard of the Olympic scoring system haven't you?

G