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#1 User is offline   Fluffy 

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Posted 2014-December-26, 07:18

I was playing with screens last weekend and though that this might solve a lot of issues about mobile phones.

Why don't you attach boxes to screens so that each player can deposit his phone while playing?, it might be better to do so on a locker, but let's face reality, people forget to use them and they are impractical, if you put them on the screens, on a transparent box, you will see your screenmate putting it there and remind yourself you should do the same.
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Posted 2014-December-26, 07:42

Could be nice for long team matches. But in a pairs game it means that everybody will be hunting for the cell phone that they lost the previous round.

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Posted 2014-December-26, 10:19

I have played in games where everyone puts their phone in a box and then takes It out after play is finished.
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Posted 2014-December-26, 19:50

How often do people go home with somebody else's phone?
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Posted 2014-December-26, 19:57

 blackshoe, on 2014-December-26, 19:50, said:

How often do people go home with somebody else's phone?

The first thing people do is to turn on the phone to check the results on the internet. If you can't get it turned on, it is not yours.

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Posted 2014-December-26, 22:50

Heh. Good point.
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Posted 2014-December-27, 03:44

 Vampyr, on 2014-December-26, 10:19, said:

I have played in games where everyone puts their phone in a box and then takes It out after play is finished.

If you're talking about the various English trials, that won't happen any more. After the EBL changed their rules earlier this year, the same change was made to the CoC for EBU trials. So now you can have your phone with you, but it has to be visible on the table.

By the way, I think "everyone" rather overstates the extent of compliance.
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Posted 2014-December-27, 03:51

 blackshoe, on 2014-December-26, 19:50, said:

How often do people go home with somebody else's phone?

I once deposited a phone which I'd owned for about six months. For all that time I'd managed to preserve the plastic film that protects the screen of a new phone when it's in the box. When I came to retrieve my phone, someone had removed the film. That made a considerable dent in my faith in human nature and intelligence.
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Posted 2014-December-27, 08:06

 Vampyr, on 2014-December-26, 10:19, said:

I have played in games where everyone puts their phone in a box and then takes It out after play is finished.

 gnasher, on 2014-December-27, 03:44, said:

By the way, I think "everyone" rather overstates the extent of compliance.


Both in terms of those who put phones in and those who remember to take them back.
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Posted 2014-December-30, 06:58

Really? If you are supposed to put your phone in sight to show you are not cheating with it, why not have 2 phones? If you have two transparent boxes to cater for that, then I am sure I can wear trousers with big enough pockets for 3 phones...

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Posted 2014-December-30, 09:39

 fromageGB, on 2014-December-30, 06:58, said:

No, the only answer is to play in the nude.

Gives new meaning to "strip and end-play". :)
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