I Directed a Tournament Today

[Blofeld]

I think both of Richard's ideas for reducing dropouts are good.

 

I particularly like the permanent floating individual -- rather like the MBC but with different partner and opponents each round. I think this would be very popular.

[zielona]

Much's been said about the sins of free tourney players and how to prevent them. But what about TD's? Some critisism of free tourney TDs was recorded along the way, mostly as "blanket" accusations of low standard, inability to adjust scores etc. To improve the image of free TD's, can we stop giving TD rights to just anyone?

 

Was playing today in a free tourney that was cancelled after the first or second round. TD made the following announcement and just cancelled 2 seconds later:

 

>>>SORRY<<< This Tournaments must be Cancel, 'cause i must playing TM >>>!H!H!H THANKS !H!H!H<<<

 

TD then went to play in the Main Bridge Club. May be there were too many absentees because the tourney started 20 minutes before the announced time??? I dunno.

 

Why do we expect responsible attitude from players? If Td can quit, so can players, right?

 

Merry Christmas everyone :))))♥ :blink:

[jillybean]

Why do we expect responsible attitude from players? If Td can quit, so can players, right?

This comment takes the cake :blink: I had to chose my wording carefuly else have the thread moved to the 'watercooler'

 

BBO can and do remove TD rights, send a complaint to abuse.

As others have said, free TD’s come under a lot of unjustified criticismn - if you don’t like the way the game is run, don’t play there.

 

The problem is not the TD’s, the problem is the inability to run open, free tournaments and keep out these players who are rude and abusive or simply leave after a bad board.