Attempting to Win

[fbuijsen]

There was an incident in 2003 or thereabouts in the Netherlands where a pair asked the TD for permission to deliberately lose imps on a couple of rounds because they had figured out that that would improve their chances of winning. The TD was OK with it but later they were disqualified. I can't find any references to it now unfortunately.

 

Tammens-Wintermans. There is a write-up of the whole incident (in Dutch) in WekoWijzer 82: http://www.bridge.nl/groepen/Wedstrijdzaken/WEKOwijzers/wekowijzer82.pdf

[helene_t]

Seems to me if the TD okayed it, and they were "later disqualified" (by whom?) they should have had their entry fee returned.

It was the organizing comitee that decided not to invite them for the final after they managed to qualify by means of dumping some boards in the qualifying round.

[blackshoe]

It was the organizing comitee that decided not to invite them for the final after they managed to qualify by means of dumping some boards in the qualifying round.

Google translate is not nearly as good as I'd like it to be. :P

 

Hm. Apparently there was nothing in the existing regulations prohibiting the dumping. They were told it was legal. Then they were told "yeah, it was legal. We don't care. Go away." (Paraphrasing, not quoting).

 

Back in the 1970s, I watched Pete Gogolak (I think it was Pete, might have been his brother) miss a field goal because the opposing team formed a pyramid on the line of scrimmage. The NCAA later decided they didn't want people doing that, so they made it illegal - for the future. They did not go back and retroactively change the rules for the game in which the incident occurred. IMO, that's the right way to do it.