[McBruce]

Both relate to accidentally specifying the wrong file when you create a tournament.

1. If the tournament definition of banned players is changed before the tournament begins, and as a result of the change a player already signed up is found on the new banned list, the player is removed from the list of players signed up.

I loaded the wrong file in tonight by mistake and a player on my banned list signed up. I could not find a way to get rid of the player, who we will call X. (Asking X to voluntarily leave and threatening to sub X out in round 1 if X refused, would simply lead to argument, given the behavior X showed during the incident which got X on the banned list.)

(Luckily, the player was responsible for a long pause on Board 1, so I got a sub quickly and solved the problem.)

2. If a file containing bridge hands is loaded up as the tournament rules, it should be rejected.

I accidentally loaded the .lin file for the pre-analyzed deals once. Anyone clicking on the Tournament Rules during the 20 seconds it took me to correct my mistake would have seen the deals about to be played.

[mycroft]

1) I don't know; if I subscribe to a tournament and 10 minutes later get kicked out for "no apparent reason", I'd be pretty annoyed. I know there are people that are gaming the system; but if I get allowed in, I'd be upset if I wasn't in.

2) While I think this is a good idea, one would want to be careful; I might want to put up a hand or two as examples of whatever I'm talking about in the rules.

But yeah - just bridge hands? Probably not the rules ...

Good ideas; I'm just commenting on what we need to think about.

Michael