Posted 2004-July-09, 12:30
in response to uday's post, neither north nor south were abrasive in the least, nobody even asked us anything... i don't know about any private messages... the director simply came to the table (you can look at the bridge movie to see when, i think 5 tricks had been played), said "3S was an improper bid, assigning avg - " and left.. since this was last board, we immediately went 'out'
the director wasn't there long enough to know whether or not 5H was a good, bad, or indifferent contract... because of his action we were the first table through on this board, how could he know? and even if he somehow knew 5H was off enough to make it a complete bottom, how does that jive with punishing one pair for some supposed infraction by another?
as far as sceptic's remarks about only playing in tourneys with top flight directors, this was a 'stars plus others' (or something) tourney, the one fred played in... i'm quite sure he and the other experts playing expected quality directors
anyway, i spoke with one of this tourney's directors last night, i was offered an apology and my money back (which i didn't take, that wasn't the issue), and a promise to try to find out why this happened... that's all i want, for someone to tell me what happened and why
"Paul Krugman is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like." Newt Gingrich (paraphrased)
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