To patch or not to patch... that is the question !

I usually quote from Silence of the Lambs to get people moving. "It puts the patches on the targets or it gets the hose.....it does what its told". "It puts the score sheets in the basket,...":ninja:
 
Fair enough. While I agree with the broad understanding it is designed around - the shooting of the stage, or at least this is how most people define it, I believe for sake of discussion, it's a mechanism (a 'catch all') for fair play.
Fair play is not specific to shooting the stage, but conduct at the match as a whole.

As an example:

You are rolling with a squad during a work/shoot arrangement and A competitor shoots a stage and receives a call for multiple cover calls.
He looses it and gets p!ssy. Decides to have a pitty party for the rest of the match and doesn't help out on the remaining stages - including taping; what do you as the SO or MD do?

Would you let it slide and have it potentially ruin the rest of the competitor's match?
Maybe some of them are on his side, and not used to tight cover calls?
Does you reaction to this fellow change if he is a relatively new competitor as opposed to a 'big shot' within the club?

IMO, in the above instance, depending on the level of 'looses it' - the competitor should at the very least receive a warning. Escalating from there is an FTDR and then an outright disqualification.

100% agree. Anyone who looses it with either the SO or MD is on his way out of the match. He can send his complaint to the AC if he wants.

Take Care

Bob
 
I wonder why no one thought of printing something encouraging on the back of the standard RO shirts?

Something like "If all competitors patch and help reset the stage, we all get home sooner"...
 
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