[zielona]

Hi

I joined a pairs tournament today as a sub. I played 6 out of 8 boards with a complete freak but despite his amusing efforts I managed to achieve some decent results on few interesting boards. Or so I think. Unfortunately, there was no barometer and the tourney was cancelled so no results on myhands are to be ever seen.

A player dropped out (quit?) during the last board on the last table. No TD in sight so someone called one of the yellows who just cancelled the tourney.

So here is what I would like to know:

-- What are the yellow powers?
-- Can a yellow take over the tourney? Are they / should they be familiar with TD functions?
-- Can a yellow add other TD's to the tourney? I think I have seen this happen once or twice.
-- Are there different categories of yellows (vugraph personnel are excluded from this question)?


cheers

zelona

[uday]

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What are the yellow powers?

They can see anyone, lookup aliases, ban people, manage tourneys

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Can a yellow take over the tourney? Are they / should they be familiar with TD functions?

They could if they wanted to. Not all of them are TDs and they don't need to be.

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Can a yellow add other TD's to the tourney? I think I have seen this happen once or twice.

Yes

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Are there different categories of yellows (vugraph personnel are excluded from this question)?

Not really, tho some are staff & some are volunteer




The real question you might be asking is "Why didn't the yellow step in and take over the TDing or find another TD? "

Sometimes he does, sometimes he does not have the time time or inclination.

[Gerardo]

Probably I was the one who cancelled it.

Don't think we should take over the missing TDs.

I do this when I am called because people call TD and is missing/unresponsive.

And call TD(s) twice. If no answer, and no one asks to take TDship, I cancel it.

[zielona]

Gerardo, on Aug 26 2007, 02:47 PM, said:

Probably I was the one who cancelled it.

No it wasn't you Gerardo

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Don't think we should take over the missing TDs.

(...) If no answer, and no one asks to take TDship, I cancel it.

I am not sure what the self proclaimed players' rep asked for, but the crowd was screaming 'TD give them AVE'. As I said, it was only one table and only one board.

It's a bit disappointing when you play for an hour and then have to forget the whole thing, especially when it was so easy to save it.

Thank you for your responses.