[jtfanclub]

blackshoe, on Jun 19 2008, 02:54 PM, said:

The pair you describe in your last post, jt, should have been shot at sunrise.

Really? What's wrong with screaming "A HEART partner? Why the hell wouldn't you lead a HEART?" in a simultaneous pairs game, so everybody is playing the same set of boards at the same time?

And then, after 5 minutes of the director simultaneously trying to calm the guy down and telling him how much trouble he was in, we get two more tricks, and he yells "You f@H^$H b$^($%! How hard is it to figure out to lead hearts! He bid hearts, he bid hearts, you have hearts, how could I have any f#$&% hearts!"

I can't imagine why the ACBL would want to punish this guy.

Actually, the president of the ACBL was at that tourney- I'd played against him that afternoon. I wonder what they ended up doing?

Sorry, way the heck off topic, sort of. I apologize. That's the only case I've ever witnessed where somebody was as destructive in a ftf game as people regularly are online.

[blackshoe]

And folks wonder why I don't play online.

[onoway]

In a tourney yesterday one opp took over 5 minutes to bid (I thought he was frozen) the TD was called, then his pard took over a minute to bid, so we just barely got going when the clock ran out,...and WE got ave- . When I complained I was told I had notified the WRONG TD, that only one of the three could do anything about it. and I hadn't notified the right one. So we got penalized even though the TD I had notified was watching the nonaction for at least three minutes. The joys of free tourneys

Still, by and large most of the TDs do a decent job, even in the free tourneys.