Subj : Re: Apology to Silver To : All From : Cherokee Date : Tue Jan 07 2003 03:34 pm Understood; I wasn't suggesting you were considering that as a reason. Timberwolf did. --- Silver Dragon wrote: > > Just so we dont get confused. Not releasing the TWA has nothing to do > with protecting newbies. > Silver Dragon > >From a message by Cherokee about Re: Apology to Silver: > > Kemper is right on target. The better players are continually > assaulted > for being so much better than newbies. Why? > > Why do people insist that newbies should be able to compete? > > Nothing we can do (short of training them for several months) will > enable them to compete. > > > > --- Kemper3 wrote: > > > > Let me get this straight... if given a large amount of time to > plan, > > a good player will beat a newbie immediately. However, this same > > newbie who can't come up with a good strategy after 30 days of > > planning will be able to rapidly adapt to adversity and come up > with > > a winning strategy faster than a good team? Also, this a > tournament, > > > > not the special olympics. Let those who aren't cu .