[hallway]

The DIRECTOR aka TD did NOT I repeat NOT put the sub into the seat of the disconnected player in the tourney under discussion

The partner of the disconnected player contacted the Director AFTER the disconnected player had returned to ask to have him reseated.

The Director then informed the Sub and the Sub declined to leave

This was NOT a BBO Masterpoint Tournament but a FREE Practice one, the Directors of BIL Free Practice tournaments are NOT obligated to reseat a disconnected player unless the SUB is WILLING

The BIL's disconnect/replacement policy will not be reviewed - I consider it fair and reasonable on the rest of the players and the substitutes - non of those people are responsible for the failure of a single player's connection to the internet.

Any member with a contrary view can ask to stand in as a TD, and we will see what transpires.

Many have aspired to the post but my records show that only 5 in 100 come back for a second attempt and of those I am fortunate if 1 goes on to become a regular TD.

No TDs = no tournaments
No Substitutes = no tournaments

Players need to keep that in mind

[golfacer]

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The DIRECTOR aka TD did NOT I repeat NOT put the sub into the seat of the disconnected player in the tourney under discussion

Based on the posts and the evidence, it appears as if the director did remove khjbsc from the tournament before the next round started, contrary to the stated BIL policy.

In that case, the director made a mistake. All directors make mistakes. Some choose to learn from their mistakes to become better directors. Hopefully the director in question is one of them. If I were the manager of the club, I would have apologized to khjbsc (for not being able to continue playing) and to loubel (for not being able to continue with his/her choice of partner).

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the BBO software records every disconnect from a tournament and it does not differentiate between the ISP dropping them or my having taken the Sub out to put the player back in- the Sub could have connection problems of their own the following day and then find themselves with an automatic week ban from tournaments. (I am not sure what the % is these days to activate the ban but it was and presumably still is arbitrary and TD's have to keep that in mind)

The latest information I could find was from Uday's posts from April 2004:

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I'm now settling in on this set of paramters:

People who abandon more than 40% of tourneys over the past 6 days and have entered at least 6 tourneys will be banned from tourneys for 1 week.

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Hmm.

So you think that the ban process should only apply to the original players, and not to the subs?

Do we agree?

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