A Remarkable Redouble

[lamford]

Redoubling in the hope that a silenced player will pull is crazy, of course, and so I'd deny N/S some portion of redress for that reason. South should just pass; he would still get redress on the basis that he would have redoubled were it not for the infraction.

My reporter tells me that the AC met (while I was away in the US) somewhat late and decided to award 80% of 7NTxx= by North and 20% of 7Sx-3 for EW. Redouble was automatic, of course, and the AC decided it would be a serious error not to make it. Not in the hope that a silenced player would pull, of course, but as an effort to get 7NT played the right way up which it should have achieved opposite a North who was not dead from the neck up. They considered whether North's failure to bid 7NT instead of his final pass was a serious error, and decided it was not. They thought that East would have pulled to 7S all the time, being a timid rabbit, but then North would normally have woken up and bid 7NT. West would have doubled, as the rank and suit of his own penalty card is UI to him as well. SB was amused by your classification of his call as a serious error or wild.