I can feel a burn out settling in. It's happened a few times in the past, and eventually passes. I'll still paint. I'm unsure if I wanted to attend any local tournaments for a while.
I'm tired of the dick waving and shit talking. I don't care when its friendly, but lately it is just been silly.
On one hand, I like that local tournaments have mostly done away with soft scores. I feel it turns tournaments into hobby events, and less about who stomps the most ass.. On the other, soft scores keep jackasses in line and scare off the worst ones. Comp can always die in fire though. I'm talking more about sportsmanship and painting.
I think painting should be required to participate, but there shouldn't be a score for it in a tournament. Sportsmanship is a whole other can of worms. It regulates some people, which is a plus. On the other, people will tank a sports score out of spite just because they took a kicking. Without a sports score at all, people eventually turn into assholes. It's a real lose-lose thing.
Perhaps I should just skip the locals all together. More and more its not worth attending, I feel more like a baby sitter some days than a tournament participant. Sadly, I'm talking about grown men. The prizes are questionable, lousy scenarios and I have to put up with asshole after asshole in some never ending dick measuring contest. Instead of attending the locals, I could just save and hit whatever indy gt's I can afford to get to.
Its like, if you lose or make a mistake.. You instantly suck or something. And if you win, you have to sit there and validate your win. What happened to showing up, playing and win or lose that was that? Do I need to be playing a different game or something?
Anyway, back to painting. The local assholes can go back to beating up on children. I just don't have any desire to educate them further at this time.
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I can relate to this. I havent played in any of the local tourneys since 2007. Too many guys seem to think playing with little toy men is a measure of testosterone, like its a nerd version of chest thumping.
Lack of accountability in certain tourney formats- like 'Ard Boyz, is generally only going to reward the ass-hats that think being a dick is part of being competitive.
Theres no perfect answer for the behavior issue. It seems alot of the internet trash talking makes guys think theyre bigger & badder than they are and that artificial ego gets stuffed into thier mini cases and taken with to the tourneys.
Soft scores do play a part in minimizing the tards, but as you mentioned- are subject to abuse if you get someone that gets pissy about losing- or if you hit a store that has a little group of freinds playing and they all max out eachothers soft scores. Damned if ya do, damned if ya dont sort of thing. I've only been to a few store based tourneys that didn't seem to favor thier regular customers- I mean, it makes sense from a buisness standpoint to keep the customers happy but it sucks that they sometimes do that. Makes it feel like theres a $$ factor attached with tourney success at those shops(although alot of those shops have went out of business lol).
But ya, its just part of the game when you play at a tourney level. It can take a while to rebuild your BS tolerance. Try to keep up on some freindly games that can remind you why you like playing in the first place ;)
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