If a TD feels slow play is actually that much of a problem, he should advertise that slow players are not welcome. Every tourney advertisement has language like 'All are welcome!' Well, don't say it if it aint true.
I don't agree with your syllogism.
"All are welcome" logically implies minimal constraints:
- accepting the format of the tourney
- having minimal grasp of the rules
- minimal social adapatation to other people.
And that last aspect is where the problem of extremely slow players arises.
If they
know that they never will be able to end the scenarios within reasonable time, they are not accepting the tourney's format (adjudicating a win should be a last resort measure, not a nice and normal one).
It also comes down to respect of one's opponent - I mostly see very slow players
requiring everybody to adapt to them, not giving a rat's ass of their own adaptation others.
That type of victimization tells a lot about their "I, me and myself" set of mind.
Why knowingly force your opponent to systematically suffer adjudication rather than a result obtained in the expected way?
How does one feel when they win a tournament only on games settled by adjudication?
Adjudication is quite certainly always doubtful and unsatisfying, given in a God-the-Father, up-to-down, way - especially when the result is not blatant.
Is it an objective that one will deliberately aim?
A tourney is a competition, which is organised in rounds. If too much time is taken to complete the rounds, the time to rest and eat is affected.
Occasionally acceptable, of course.
But depriving other people from having time to rest, to social talk, etc. on a regular basis is making their time at the tourney rather unpleasing.
It is not about discrimination.
No more than when a player decides to join a tournament without knowing the rules, or while wanting to play other scenarios than those prescribed, or behaving in a disruptive way.
In the case of an extremely slow player, this not about prohibiting people to play as they like, but about them adapting to the necessary rules of an organised competition.
Most tourney meetings allow people come for casual play, anyway.