Reason for Adjustment Box

[McBruce]

In a large tournament, sometimes several boards or rounds will occur between the time that a TD is asked to review and possibly adjust, and the time he actually does adjust, assuming he decides to do so. The players involved get the message that the score has been adjusted, but it is quite time consuming (especially in an indy) to find the location of all four players and send them a message explaining the reason for the adjustment. Without a reason for an adjustment supplied, some players seem to feel put off because they were not consulted, as we've seen in another thread...

 

It might be a good idea to add a way for a short message to be passed to the players explaining the TDs basic reason for adjusting:

 

 

Board ___ Any Player ____________ Adjustment ______

 

( ) to save time . . . . . . . . . . ( ) because of infraction

( ) misclick . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( ) substitute misinformed

( ) other: _______________

 

 

 

The system would send the 'score adjusted to [whatever]' message, plus 'Reason for Adjustment: [reason]' and perhaps something like 'Please do not hold up play discussing this adjustment. Scores can be adjusted after the end of the tournament if an adjustment error needs correction.' -- to avoid the abuse we TDs take whenever we make an error.