TD ruling

[A2003]

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Final contract: 5NT by East.

Plays:

8♣3♦T♣Q♣

Q♠3♠2♠5♠

7♠A♠4♠6♠

Time ran out.

No play after.

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Tonight's game:

ACBL TD corrected the score as down 1 for east west.

Is it correct ruling?

[glen]

At trick 4, with South on lead,

 

1) If a ♣ is led, 5♠s + 4♣s + 3♥s = 12

2) If a ♥ or ♠ or ♦ Q is led, 5♠s + 3♣s + 3♥s = 11

3) If the 2 of ♦ is led, then guess - if declarer goes up K, then down 1 is possible

 

To me doesn't look like TD can adjust this board due to possible ♦ guess.

 

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Sometimes the TD can get the adjustment wrong even when two tricks left and the player on lead only has winning cards:

 

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3NT by West, North on lead.

 

Here's the 11 tricks played (defense winning tricks bolded):

1) ♠ T A 5 3

2) ♥ 3 4 K 5

3) ♣ J 6 3 Q

4) ♦ A 2 6, ♥ 6

5) ♠ J K 4 6

6) ♣ T 5 8 2

7) ♣ 7, ♦ J, ♣ K 4

8) ♣ A 9, ♠ 2 ♦ Q

9) ♥ Q A, ♦ 5, ♥ 2

10) ♦ K 4, ♥ 9, ♠ 7

11) ♥ 8, ♦ 8, ♥ T J

Dummy wins trick 11 and has good ♠ Q, ♥ 7 left when time runs out

 

TD adjusts board to -1. My protests to the ACBL TD seem to have failed that day, based on the hand records in myhands (unless myhands does not have the final, final hands, which it should):

 

Board 9, adjusted to -1

 

What can you do? Oh well, on to another tourney...

[Guest movingon]

no way should the board have been adjusted to down 1...

Either adjust to making 5 or don't adjust at all...

[cherdano]

There is just no way this South player will switch to ♦2.

[blackshoe]

The board was not completed, so artificial adjusted scores (law 12C1). Probably average to both sides, unless one side or the other was determined to be at fault for the delay.