[aguahombre]

Situation:

A and B are partners.
C and D are their opponents.

C and D keep going out and back in, over and over again, so no action can occur on a hand.

A explains the problem to the director.
Eventually C and D are ousted from the tourney.

B has remained patient and silent during the ten minutes this is going on.
B is removed and replaced --cannot get back in to play with her partner of choice.

Is there a glitch in the program, which just boots someone out if they have not chatted or hit any keys for a period of time, regardless of why? If so, could B --had she known about this glitch -- simply typed in a word of chat and kept her status open?

[uday]

1. The system does have an idle timer but is it almost certainly not a factor. In addition, when it fires off, the idle user is logged out.

2. The system removes a player from a T if and only if

a. The TD (or host) subs the player out
b. The T is a 'survivor' format pair game. At round change, survivor pairs that are incomplete or low scoring (how low is up to the TD) are excused from the T.


THe most likely explanation is that the TD, for whatever reason, subbed B out. But if by "cannot get back in" you mean "cannot get back to bbo" then the most likely cause is that B simply had conn trbles, got booted , could not login again until conn trbles went away

[aguahombre]

Ok, she got back in to bbo (actually never left the site), but was told by the TD there was nothing he could do to reinstate her with her pard. From what you are saying, apparently the TD just zapped everyone except "A", who had been talking with him about the problem with C and D.

[hotShot]

Consider it a finger fault from the TD.
I don't think it's the software.