[glen]

In a recent BBO ACBL tournament, one advanced opponent has:

Scoring: IMP

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Bidding is Pass(by this hand)-1♠-Double-Pass-?

The opponent passed and obtained +1400 and 12.2 IMPs, as the advanced takeout doubler had:

Scoring: IMP

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TD was asked to investigate the pass of the takeout double, and determined that the opponent had been distracted so had passed by accident, so no adjustment was possible.

Should the TD be able to roll back the result to average for both sides when this type of serendipity happens, or is it better to use some sort of recorder system (do we have one?) just in case there is a long term trend, or do we let players investigate each other (yuck), or just let this stuff happen as it does online?

[inquiry]

report the hand/players to abuse... this type of hand requires a little bit more investigations than a tournament director has time or tools to investigate. This could be a lucky accident or it could be some kind of neferous thing.... one hand can't tell....

Ben

[glen]

Thanks for the reply Ben! Would prefer to email "record@bridgebase.com" instead of "abuse" which sounds too strong for this.

btw I wrote two emails to acbl@bridgebase.com a while back - did not get a reply or a read receipt back - would anybody know if that email stream is read by anybody?

[inquiry]

officeglen, on Jan 14 2006, 12:47 PM, said:

Thanks for the reply Ben! Would prefer to email "record@bridgebase.com" instead of "abuse" which sounds too strong for this.

btw I wrote two emails to acbl@bridgebase.com a while back - did not get a reply or a read receipt back - would anybody know if that email stream is read by anybody?

the acbl address gets forwarded to the correct person. I suspect she reads every email but who knows? I get a copy of what is sent to fd@ the same address and so far out of about 100 emails, only one was real. Same thing might happen to the acbl one.

Writing to abuse is not a problem. Abuse will either
a) do nothing
make note of the player(s) involved and check their history
c) assign it to someone to take a closer look.

Since this hand was in a pay tournmement, i suspect option "C" will be chosen. And if you private message me, I will surely investigate this pair and inform abuse of what I find.

Ben