VanHalenLover:
andyson: I'm speaking of the unlimited play weekly, monthly WGT tournaments. Like the
weekly 9-hole and
monthly 18-hole, unlimited play free tournaments. The "Limbo. How low can you go?"
I am speaking of the same andyson. I tested this a few weeks ago (I rarely play these, so getting locked out of them didn't bother me. I don't think it was a glitch as it is now programmed to lock a player out of they use the quit/end round option. The next time I went to play it again, after quitting, it said that I was no longer able to play it as I quit the tournament.
It was a WGT mistake, the weekly unlimited play was set up as a single play. Its back to where it should be so YJ is right, "You can quit your butt off in the Unlimiteds and play them as many times as you like."
Another "oops moment" this afternoon. Played some CTTH and Blitz this morning and went to work in the garage, had lunch sat down at the computer and teed off on the weekly 9-hole unlimited. 10th tee at St. Andrews, the caddy gives me my 3H club. I had added wedges for the CTTHs and removed my Driver and 3W. Good thing I was able to End game/Main menu out of it. Would have wasted a half hour under your harsh system.
Similar thing would happen under your system in a two player ranked MP game and one player quits. I'd be left having to spend a half hour completing my game alone, when I'd prefer company, so I'd probably be miserable and make a half hearted, hurried effort to get through the round as fast as possible and my score would not be representative of what I could shoot.
Also, in the weekly unlimited tournaments I think the same thing will happen. Say I've already recorded a 32, (-4) for a 9 hole unlimited play. I start another round to see if I can shoot -5 but I'm +1 after 3 holes. Not likely I can shoot 6 under in the last 6 holes. Today I can restart by End Game/Main menu. But under your system I'd have to waste another 20 minutes hurrying through the last 6 holes to start again. My score would balloon and again not be representative of what I could shoot. I'd look like a friggin' sandbagger.
Since you admit to not playing the unlimited, I can understand how you can come to this illogical conclusion:
VanHalenLover: Posting every score will give a long term overall ACCURATE average to
base tiers off of -OR- force those players who manipulate scores to do
it by artificially posting high scores, and not just simply dropping
unwanted rounds. This score history wil make it easier to identify
sandbaggers, finally.
Personally, I don't give a rat's eyelash about people manipulating their scores or averages or tiers. Its not a big deal with me. Cherry pickers only hurt themselves. Sandbaggers? pfft, easy to spot, easy to avoid, fool ya once, shame on you, check their profile before agreeing to a challenge. Deal with it in MPCs. Tiered tournaments? No sandbagging in the Legend tier. Let WGT solve it for the other tiers by adjusting the average computation and tier promotion criteria. Remove some of the the tee differential with a new driver for Legends and the sandbagging TMs and Masters issue for Legends in RGs goes away.
No need for a harsh system saying you can't end a ranked round if you want or need to end it.
Please stop claiming your system solves the quitting problem. It doesn't since it doesn't cover quitting multiplayer practice rounds and forces people to finish rounds they don't want or need to finish. People quit those and contribute to all the posts on the forums on quitting.
Faterson's method addresses only the quitting issue with no claims to solve the world of WGT's problems.