[Vilgan]

Heard a lot of things I find rather questionable at the online ACBL tournaments... is this actually accurate?

"You must prealert strange carding such as UDCA or odd/even discards".

Huh? Since when is that "strange", and why would it need to be pre alerted. Convention cards work here just like in f2f.

After a director is called:
"You should have pre alerted the fact you have variable NT ranges."

Huh? recurring theme here... if its not required in f2f bridge, why do we suddenly have to pre alert fairly common things like this? (All NT openers were alerted correctly). I questioned the director as to why it would require a pre alert and got no response.

"This is not the place for strange methods like precision. This is a GCC ONLY event."

This happened a few months back actually.

Is there any actual fact/basis to any of the above comments? Maybe I'm a bit biased because it seems like they never do anything other than sub people in. Just seems like a lot of things are invented because they feel like it, not because it is correct.

Eric

[jtfanclub]

Vilgan, on Jun 7 2007, 05:13 PM, said:

This happened a few months back actually.

Bad things were happening a few months back. My understanding is that a new person is in charge and many of the directors were replaced. Hopefully those problems aren't being repeated.

Because it's a club, they are allowed to make their own rules. One of those is to require announcement of system and non-'standard' carding. However, Precision is certainly permitted, as I play it there regularly.