SNCL

[Alex McFarlane]

Andrew G: adjudication is a lesser evil than being handicapped for a 2nd game, look at football where team which has played in Europe midweek loses locally next weekend , and penalty shoot-out is more desirable than a replay.

I don't see attraction of increments. A fixed playing session is better. My time control for SNCL would be : 10.15 -2.15 all moves in 2 hours each, 3.15-7.15 round 2

At this point in time I don't know if I will be there next weekend or not due to my views.

The attraction of increments is that the players decide the result of the game and not the arbiter when one player runs out of time.
Or are you suggesting that as soon as the last grain of sand runs out of your timer then you lose?
The equivalent of the football penalty shoot-out that you see as a good idea is to have very short increments.  Clocks could be set to  give 30 second increments up to 40 moves and then 5 second increments thereafter.  I'm not sure I think that is a better option than the current system but it is the logical conclusion to what you say.

I can just imaging the Andy Muir of 150 years ago saying "I'm not playing in that stupid Dundee tournament.  They will be using these new fangled clock things and, worse, they are allowing draws rather than replaying."