all you commentators and operators

[Finch]

It is interesting to read about players looking at the operator's computer screen at the end of the match to check the score. In Australia this practice is explicitly prohibited under Regulation 23.9.

I sometimes try not to do it because it's a bit hard on teammates, who generally don't like it if you know the result and they don't - but it's very hard to resist, so I usually peek if I know the other table is still in play and otherwise I'll have to wait.

 

It's odd that it's specifically prohibited: why?

[peachy]

It is interesting to read about players looking at the operator's computer screen at the end of the match to check the score.  In Australia this practice is explicitly prohibited under Regulation 23.9.

I sometimes try not to do it because it's a bit hard on teammates, who generally don't like it if you know the result and they don't - but it's very hard to resist, so I usually peek if I know the other table is still in play and otherwise I'll have to wait.

 

It's odd that it's specifically prohibited: why?

I would imagine it is sometimes hard to control body language when looking at the results on screen and if it is within sight from the table still in play, it could provide UI one way or another. As said, I am guessing. But even without this guess, I favor it being prohibited.

[JanM]

I'll second Frances - why would you prohibit this? in the "old days" before Vugraph, I know of lots of instances where a player or kibitzer would come out of the second room to finish with the scores from all of the previous boards to give the players who had finished (a player of course could only do this on the last board if s/he happened to be dummy). Of course if the two tables were in the same room without visual separating there could be a problem, but we try to avoid that anyway.

[mrdct]

If there is an onsite presentation or anybody with a data-enabled phone in the non-quarantined area the players can easily get the match score that way.

 

The rationale for the prohibition on players looking at the operator's screen is mainly directed at conditioning players to always enter and leave the playing area in a manner such that they can't get a glimpse of the operator's screen which is obviously more of a problem at the beginning or midway through a session but we may as well get the players in the habit of not looking at the operator's screen at all. It might also help avoid the situation of a player jumping up to look at the operator's screen when he erroneously thinks he's just played the last board of the segment but in fact has an extra board or two play due to the boards coming out of order or a fouled board.

 

I also think it's discourteous to teammates to ascertain the match score before the actual score-up and as npc I would at the very least strongly discourage my players from that practice.