[McBruce]

The Tuesday night Alphabet Points Tournament 'L is for LEAD' was hit with some severe network problems about 40 minutes in. I was disconnected and when I got back on at least half of the 132 players were missing and most of the others were calling the Director frantically!

Eventually, I got word to the survivors to sit tight and wait it out, and after five more minutes I saw that the number of missing had dropped from about 60 or more to 40. I waited a few more minutes and then began subbing in players, with the help of yellows jjsb and uday (who also helped out by playing the last ten or so deals). At some tables there was about a 30 minute delay until we found subs to get it back in business again.

By the end I think we had subbed about 60 or more players in, but all were finished only about 20 minutes later than usual.

I want to thank everyone for their help and patience in getting through a bad network night. Losing half of 132 players is tough to recover from, but we did it.

[Trpltrbl]

BBO is a very friendly place Let's keep it that way.

Mike