> No point playing any tourny's as it full of them
Surely the only problem people have with finding out someone has made a new nickname for a tournament is the fact they thought they would get an 'easy' first game against a red and they subsequently find out they are actually a pink/black in 'disguise'?
I agree with your points, it is probably more fair for players to use their
real
usernames rather than making a new one up just for the purpose of a tournament, but surely the ultimate purpose of the tourny is to discriminate on the grounds of skill level. Regardless of whether or not the person is ranked red/yellow/black, if you find yourself playing them in the last stages of a tourny you know they have some amount of skill.
>like those ranked RED with NO game history beating Blues, Pinks and even Black's
I think the advice here is not to play anyone ranked 400+ points below you unless they are a good friend or you want to take the risk that they could actually be a good player.
>throw your hands-up and allow cheaters to run the F/D game system
FOD rules aren't the clearest sometimes, the rules regarding cheating don't necessarily include playing higher rated people. (If this was the case you would have to introduce a rule saying that a red ranked snooker player cannot play someone with more than 200 points, this wouldn't be suitable in my opinion)
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2.2 operation jumping
2.3 encouraging your opponent to leave the match
2.4 intentionally loosing in favour of your opponent
2.5 accepting your opponent's behaviour who is intentionally loosing
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