Smoking during the Play

[CamHenry]

Alcohol is banned in all NBF tournaments. This applies to players, officials and spectators, on the premises as well as outside, each day until all play that day has been completed.

 

Unquote.

 

Note that the CoC says all play that day, not that session.

That sounds unbelievably harsh: what if it's a short knockout, for example, and you're eliminated at 7pm. You're not allowed a beer down the pub with team-mates while you do the post-mortem?

 

Wow.

[RMB1]

You can imagine the scene: some hotel in the English Midlands, it is Saturday night at some EBU national competition. The session is due to finish at 23:30 but some players are late. Noone can consume alcohol until all play for the day is completed. The event continues tomorrow, so no one can drink after midnight (because play for tomorrow will not have finished until that evening). David Burn has finished play an hour ago and is waiting patiently (!) at the bar in the next room but at Robson's table there are still two boards to finish. The TD is hovering (he wants a drink too) and some sort of "bush telegraph" is evolving to relay the moment of the last card being played, from the playing room to the bar. The atmosphere in the playing room, and in bar, is getting edgy, as play again grinds to halt at the remaining table ...

[blackshoe]

Another prime example of thread drift. Not to mention the ridiculous extremes to which "zero tolerance" can take us.

[olegru]

I am wondering how many IMP will be penalty for entire team for murdering a kibitzer by team member in the toilet room. <_<

[jeremy69]

Talking of to whom the penalty applies I believe there was a case where a player in an international event refused a drugs test which is viewed by officaldom as the same as failing it. The net result was no medal for the said person but the rest of the team did get their medals which I thought curious. In Athletics if one player refuses or fails a test in a relay all the team is disqualified which it seems to me is the right thing to do.

 

I am wondering how many IMP will be penalty for entire team for murdering a kibitzer by team member in the toilet room

 

6 imps. Sufficiently serious to merit a double disciplinary penalty

[TimG]

In Athletics if one player refuses or fails a test in a relay all the team is disqualified which it seems to me is the right thing to do.

If a player on a MLB or NFL team fails a test, the individual is suspended and the team is not penalized (beyond being without the services of the player). At least that's how I think it works.

[mjj29]

In Athletics if one player refuses or fails a test in a relay all the team is disqualified which it seems to me is the right thing to do.

If a player on a MLB or NFL team fails a test, the individual is suspended and the team is not penalized (beyond being without the services of the player). At least that's how I think it works.

Perhaps it depends whether they were tested before or after the event they competed in...

[bluejak]

Surely a double DP is 12 imps?