blackshoe Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 "I reserve my right to call the director" is not "jargon", it's plain English. Yes, it's possible, and probably better, to do it another way, but it is neither illegal nor discourteous to follow the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_corgi Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 "I reserve my right to call the director" is not "jargon", it's plain English. Yes, it's possible, and probably better, to do it another way, but it is neither illegal nor discourteous to follow the law. It always confuses me. Is the right to call the director something that needs to be reserved? It often sounds more like a euphemism for "I want to disparage your ethics, but I want to do so in the absence of the director and I don't want to fall foul of BB@B [or ZT or whatever the local regulation is]." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 IMO no right needs to be reserved. But the law says that's what you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 "I reserve my rights" is the usual way it's phrased, when I've had issues with a later director call and a totally confused pair of opponents. "...to call the TD" would help. Actually stating what you think is an issue, and calling the TD (who shouldn't think that failing to use the magic words is a problem) if there is either disagreement on the UI, or potential use of it, seems like a more polite thing to do when you *know* that the other ways will just be gobbledygook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 There are lots of high-level competitive situations where a couple of seconds would be normal. It is too bad that more jurisdictions do not use the STOP card for competitive auctions at the 3-level or above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rdy Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 It is too bad that more jurisdictions do not use the STOP card for competitive auctions at the 3-level or above. I agree, but: can you imagine more than a very small percentage of the general bridge population taking any notice of an instruction to use the STOP card in competitive auctions? My impressions1 of use of the STOP card in the EBU at the moment is that perhaps 1-2% use it as directed by the regulations, and another 10-20% hold it out for 5 seconds or so at the appropriate times. Are there jurisdictions in which a STOP card regulation is followed accurately by most of the bridge players there? 1gained in either provincial club bridge, or meandering around the middle (45-65% of max VPs) of Brighton Swiss events; I don't think there's a meaningful difference in levels of compliance between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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