[ksk2005]

Several times my entry has been cancelled when my partner played at a another tourney , team game or disconnected. Would'nt be nice just replace the offending player with sitout and not punish the non-offending player?

[diana_eva]

ksk2005, on 2013-January-16, 12:40, said:

Several times my entry has been cancelled when my partner played at a another tourney , team game or disconnected. Would'nt be nice just replace the offending player with sitout and not punish the non-offending player?

You are asking about BBO tourneys right? Not live events.

I think it's your partner's responsibility to show up if he accepted to register for a tournament with you. I personally prefer to have my entry canceled if I can't play with a partner of my choice, rather than be swept away in tourney with a random sub. Not sure if this is how the majority feels, but I would guess this was the logic for the software to cancel a registration when one of the team members is not available.

[Zelandakh]

diana_eva, on 2013-January-16, 13:37, said:

I personally prefer to have my entry canceled if I can't play with a partner of my choice, rather than be swept away in tourney with a random sub.

Perhaps you could implement this as an account option so that players can decide for themselves how such aborted entries are handled.

[helene_t]

I don't think it should be an account option. BBO has a policy of avoiding too many options and this is clearly an option that can be missed. The orphaned partner can chose for himself to register with a robot or to try to find another p.

Starting the tourney with a sitout is a bad idea. Not only because the orphaned player might prefer not to play at all. But also because subs are scarse and tds are overloaded at the start of a tourney with the search for subs for players who are nonresponsive at the start of the tourney.

[barmar]

Subs are intended for situations where a player is unexpectedly disconnected during a tournament. Not showing up to play when the tourney starts is a different situation.

However, I suppose that in the case where your registered partner was just a random pickup, you would probably consider a sub just as good. But we can't currently distinguish between a regular partnership and a random hookup (maybe check whether the missing partner is a friend?).