Talk:Event E2/Proposal Karacan

Cheaters?

How will your player judges be able to detect out of game cheating? Jacquilynne / Jasandrea

- Out of game cheating is indeed very difficult to detect, unless it's blatantly obvious. If I am Nilling, and you lead a 2 on a colour that wasn't played before, which I am accidentally blank at, well... quite obvious. At least one of my player judges would be from the top five ultimate Spades players on Midnight, and is quite capable of watching and judging games. Karacan

- Providing judges in this case is more of a soothe to players who feel more comfortable when someone is watching the game, to prevent said blatant cheating. The randomness of the partners is the main mechanism that will prevent cheating in most cases. People who rely on cheating will likely not end up in the pricewinning ranking anyway, even if they are randomly teamed up with one or two partners who they played with before. Karacan

Cheater prevention

I think the randomness of the partners should be enough to prevent 99% of cheating potential.

- That was the main reason for chosing the mechanics. Karacan

Potential Problem

If one participant leaves during a game, will the opposing team score a victory or will it need to be replayed with one of your "dummy" players? I have seen someone get mad and leave way too many times due to mistakes of their partners or just general asshattery to think it might not happen here. Shandra (Taco)

- That's a good question. It will largely depend on the amount of players joining - if there's few enough, and the logged off person rejoins immediately, the game will be replayed. Otherwise, a dummy player will take over for him until that Group has finished its games. In case of someone disconnecting and not reappearing in the first game, there's also the possibility of just restarting the whole group. Since the tourney is with preapplication, handling of droupouts will be one of the last things to finalize, dependent on the amount of participants. Karacan