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#1 User is offline   glen 

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Posted 2008-December-31, 20:00

During the last ACBL speedball, an announcement was made that finishing last in your section would get your entry fees refunded - from the look of some of the sections, there was quite a race to last!
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Posted 2008-December-31, 20:33

glen, on Dec 31 2008, 09:00 PM, said:

During the last ACBL speedball, an announcement was made that finishing last in your section would get your entry fees refunded - from the look of some of the sections, there was quite a race to last!

fantastic idea.
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Posted 2008-December-31, 20:49

We may hear more complaints about destructive bids.
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Posted 2008-December-31, 22:34

I have to agree, I am not so sure this is a good idea. Someone close to last might be tempted to do un-ethical things like throw boards like crazy, giving un-earned tops to others in the event, effecting not only who comes in last, but who comes in the top positions.
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Posted 2008-December-31, 23:26

Agreed, this is really really bad. Can't beleive they're actually doing this, essentially encouraging the membership to violate the CoC (The section that basically says you should try to obtain the best possible result on each board, regardless of longer-term consequences.)
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Posted 2009-January-01, 05:37

When I used to run our christmas party we gave a prize to the pair with a score closest to 50%.
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Posted 2009-January-01, 18:37

I much prefer Frances' idea.
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

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Posted 2009-January-01, 22:01

It was a New Year's Eve one-time (what I thought would be) fun idea on the last night of the year.

I also refunded entry fees for 5th 8th and 10th place finishers.

On this one game, I didn't notice any wild bidding so people could come in last and get their buck back. There were some extratordinary attempts to get to 8th place though.

Good grief!

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  Posted 2009-January-03, 12:18

I can handle if it's for special occasions; if it's a standard tho, I have a fundamental problem with chucking and such.
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