Why are we so strict on deadlines?

[EtH]

Rules are rules. I for one am in favour of a hard deadline.

[EtH]

Rules are rules. I for one am in favour of a hard deadline.

Originally Posted by EtH

Rules are rules. I for one am in favour of a hard deadline.

This is a dumb rule. And there are other rules that aren't anywhere near as concrete making for inconsistency and an overall unprofessional feel, so why be so damn strict with this?

Live battlers get a week at least to write. If someone is feeling uninspired and or has shit going on and can't get a verse in until 24 hours later, I think we should let it slide. Maybe I'm on the more extreme end, but perhaps a lesser grace period than I'm recommending would be fair.

How late were you on posting?

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Originally Posted by RULE

So... a deadline then.

A somewhat fluid one, I guess you could say. Just basically recommending a grace period. Maybe up to two times in a tourney run or something.

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Originally Posted by Subreal

because it holds the whole tournament up. I can understand if it is like an hour or something but not a whole day

Why not a whole day?

Originally Posted by EtH

Rules are rules. I for one am in favour of a hard deadline.

This is a dumb rule. And there are other rules that aren't anywhere near as concrete making for inconsistency and an overall unprofessional feel, so why be so damn strict with this?

Live battlers get a week at least to write. If someone is feeling uninspired and or has shit going on and can't get a verse in until 24 hours later, I think we should let it slide. Maybe I'm on the more extreme end, but perhaps a lesser grace period than I'm recommending would be fair.

How late were you on posting?

---------- Post added at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:25 PM ----------

Originally Posted by RULE

So... a deadline then.

A somewhat fluid one, I guess you could say. Just basically recommending a grace period. Maybe up to two times in a tourney run or something.

---------- Post added at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:27 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Subreal

because it holds the whole tournament up. I can understand if it is like an hour or something but not a whole day

Why not a whole day?

[RULE]

Originally Posted by Noir

A somewhat fluid one, I guess you could say. Just basically recommending a grace period. Maybe up to two times in a tourney run or something.

This idea has potential but could be easily abused

Remember with the strict 3 days to post 3 days to vote deadline this GC is taking OVER a MONTH to complete.

& we're talking 16 lines. I wrote a 64 in 2 hours a few weeks ago. Y'all got 3 days from the round opening. You could be writing bars NOW for the next round.

[RULE]

Originally Posted by Noir

A somewhat fluid one, I guess you could say. Just basically recommending a grace period. Maybe up to two times in a tourney run or something.

This idea has potential but could be easily abused

Remember with the strict 3 days to post 3 days to vote deadline this GC is taking OVER a MONTH to complete.

& we're talking 16 lines. I wrote a 64 in 2 hours a few weeks ago. Y'all got 3 days from the round opening. You could be writing bars NOW for the next round.

Originally Posted by RULE

This idea has potential but could be easily abused

Remember with the strict 3 days to post 3 days to vote deadline this GC is taking OVER a MONTH to complete.

& we're talking 16 lines. I wrote a 64 in 2 hours a few weeks ago. Y'all got 3 days from the round opening. You could be writing bars NOW for the next round.

I don't see how it could be abused really. It would just need to be requested 24 hours in advance of the deadline or something. Anyone could throw together a shit 16 just to show.. I'm sure we all wanna see the best out of each other in these tournament battles, not half hearted efforts to make a deadline. I couldn't even begin to count the amount of tourney battles, and even finals I've been disappointed in, probably due to people writing in a rush. And at the end of the day, we should all want the battle to go down rather than have tourney's riddled with petty no shows where the battler was actually around/active and could post with a lil extension.

Originally Posted by RULE

This idea has potential but could be easily abused

Remember with the strict 3 days to post 3 days to vote deadline this GC is taking OVER a MONTH to complete.

& we're talking 16 lines. I wrote a 64 in 2 hours a few weeks ago. Y'all got 3 days from the round opening. You could be writing bars NOW for the next round.

I don't see how it could be abused really. It would just need to be requested 24 hours in advance of the deadline or something. Anyone could throw together a shit 16 just to show.. I'm sure we all wanna see the best out of each other in these tournament battles, not half hearted efforts to make a deadline. I couldn't even begin to count the amount of tourney battles, and even finals I've been disappointed in, probably due to people writing in a rush. And at the end of the day, we should all want the battle to go down rather than have tourney's riddled with petty no shows where the battler was actually around/active and could post with a lil extension.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Originally Posted by Noir

It would just need to be requested 24 hours in advance of the deadline or something.

You can already ask for extensions on the deadlines at the moment. I think these should be more accessible, and I think if something comes up unexpectedly and you let the tournament organiser know afterwards you should be able to submit your verse late because personal emergencies/whatever leading to a no-show in a battle both battlers were taking seriously is pointless you're right. But having a blanket grace period and making the deadlines irrelevant just voids the point of having them and then tournaments will take forever.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Originally Posted by Noir

It would just need to be requested 24 hours in advance of the deadline or something.

You can already ask for extensions on the deadlines at the moment. I think these should be more accessible, and I think if something comes up unexpectedly and you let the tournament organiser know afterwards you should be able to submit your verse late because personal emergencies/whatever leading to a no-show in a battle both battlers were taking seriously is pointless you're right. But having a blanket grace period and making the deadlines irrelevant just voids the point of having them and then tournaments will take forever.