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Warboss Gubbinz wrote:

CT Gamer, I feel you have it wrong about sportsmanship, unless you meant comp(don't get me started on comp).

I don't think 40k or any other wargame should even be played as a sport (for many reasons from game design, to flaws in typica event organization, to the previling attitudes of the player base, etc., etc.). It is a flawed premise that you can do so fairly fom the start.

However if you insist on doing so then I find it bizzare that one would penalize a participant's score because you subjectively decide his army isn't "fair" or is "unfun". What the hell do those even mean, and how can we be sure everyone feels the same way or would agree on definitions? A scoring system in which you have no defined rubric is laughable at best, and bisased to the extreme...

Sports should not have subjective scoring that impacts event results placed in the hand of the participants.

Playing any list that is legal as per the game/rules and restrictions of the event without being penalized for it should be a given.

If one insists on a sportsmanship score it should have to be recorded in front of your opponent in the presence of a judge and determined based upon defined criteria not subjective open-ended evaluations.

It shoud have a rubric-style list:

1. Did your opponent swear, yell or argue disruptively during the game?

2. Did your opponent throw items/models or at in a physically aggressive manner?

3. Did your opponent cheat?

4. Was his list illegal in some way either based upon codex/game or event restrictions

etc.

Have as many as the TO feels are needed to get the desired scoring range/results, etc.

These are the sorts of things that can be clearly defined and that actually have a basis in sportsmanship.

Tanking someone because you don't like what army mens he brought is lame, unsporting itself, and is the sort of flawed mentality that is at the heart of the problem with tournament play in GW games and others...