The wierderst thing happed in acbl pay tourney

[tony stack]

Situation: Acbl pairs (scoring: imps) tourney starts with an odd number of teams. Acbl TD is disconnected from BBO for about 20 minutes. Sitout’s are filled with real people during round 2. One of those real people is me. I play round 2 of the acbl tournament and then look at the score from previous boards. Round 1 boards show a score of -3 imps a piece. I call TD and ask for board adjustment to Ave (since our pair was occupied with sitouts during round 1, I think it unfair for the automatically assigned A -- result to stand , I believed it should be Ave==). TD is unable to view the board history for our pair (we were not present in round 1, sitouts were there) and is unable to adjust the board for our pair. I asked TD to try adjusting the board for the opponents to A==. Acbl TD says she was able to adjust their score successfully (but no adjustment message appeared at our table). So I told the TD that the score should then have been adjusted for our side as well based on what she had done already and that I would check at the end of the tourney to see if it was. At the end of the tourney, the first two boards still had -3 imps and the results from the tourney leader board reflected that (-28.62 imps on the leader board compared to -28.7 imps totaled from the bridge movie). The 6 imp difference in this case did not damage the field in any way (the same people who actually won MP’s still won what they were supposed to). But I am afraid that if the situation above happens again (sitouts not replaced in round 1), the field could be damaged by what the software is doing and therefore, the software should be fixed.

Therefore: I believe that BBO is currently unable to adjust a board from an ave- for a substitute pair (but is able to adjust it for the pair that opposed the sitout pair) if the substitute pair was occupied by sitout pairs for the round in which the board being adjusted was (not) played.