{"id":3700,"date":"2013-09-03T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:54:02","slug":"jar-series-general-unwanted-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/09\/jar-series-general-unwanted-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"JAR Series: &#8220;General Unwanted Behaviors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on with our Judging at Regular (JAR) series, let\u2019s take a look at \u201cGeneral Unwanted Behaviors\u201d next. This is going to be a bit different from previous weeks, because it covers behaviors that don&#8217;t have to occur during a game; in fact, someone doesn&#8217;t even need to be enrolled in the event to run afoul of this rule. A two-page document like the JAR is nowhere near long enough to cover all the potential issues that may arise during the event, but the three big headers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Players taking unreasonable amounts of time sideboarding or making play decisions. Magic is a game with time limits, and those limits need to be respected, both for your opponent and for the entire tournament. Some LGSes have strict closing hours; do everyone a favor and play at a reasonable pace! Also noteworthy is being tardy arriving to your match; after ten minutes, the late player is considered to have conceded the match.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Inadequate shuffling after a search. A shuffle is considered proper when neither player could know the position of any given card in the deck after the deck is presented. The recommended minimum is seven riffle\/mash shuffles interspersed with side shuffles. Pile shuffling alone is not sufficient.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Asking for, or providing, strategy advice during a tournament match or booster draft. Magic is a great game to play with friends, but sanctioned events draw the line at table talk that includes strategy advice (or that takes up unreasonable time before gameplay decisions are made). A tournament tests your own skills, not your ability to follow directions from other people. In-between matches, feel free to discuss strategy as much as you like!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Players who commit general unwanted behaviors should be educated by the judge on proper behavior, and warned that further instances could result in a Game Loss penalty. At Regular REL especially, the educational aspect is more important than the warning. Judges aren&#8217;t out to punish players; they want the unwanted behavior to stop for the sake of the tournament, and this can\u2019t be accomplished if the player didn&#8217;t realize why his or her actions were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, players whose behavior is likely to offend others &#8212; such as using foul language &#8212; should additionally be warned that continuous unwanted behavior could result in a Disqualification. What warrants a Disqualification, you ask? Well, come back next week, when we talk about \u201cSerious Problems\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Tournament Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our journey through the Judging at Regular REL document with a discussion of General Unwanted Behaviors and how to deal with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournamentrules","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}