McBruce Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Questions and ramblings... 1. BBO users can apparently avoid chat directed at the lobby. Can they similarly avoid chat directed to "Tournament?" Is it only the Director who can make such announcements? I have a standard set of announcements that I run during the first round (the first is "begin playing and read these at your leisure"). I also run lighthearted announcements during the game. No complaints yet, but I can imagine some might. I think that the announcements help keep the mood informal and fun, and since people can read them at their leisure they do not interrupt in the same way that your local Director with his microphone and sound system will. If people complain that some Directors (like me! :) ) talk too much, don't cave and offer them a "squelch Director announcements button." 2. When a player loses connection I have yet to see the case where he comes back. Has anyone had a booted player come back and ask back in? I would imagine most subs would be happy to relinquish the seat in such a case. (Perhaps what is happening is that players who are losing connection are really losing patience with their partners!) 3. Does the standings table list the players in each partnership when they completed the tourney, even if a sub played only the final three tricks? 4. What do you do with players that have to leave in the middle? I don't mind calling for a sub and assuming that they had a good reason for doing so, but would it be a good idea for a list to be maintained of repeat offenders? Players need to know that they are supposed to stay to the end. I'm sure most exiters who actually message me and say they need to leave are honest, but people who do this every second or third tourney they play maybe should have to sit in the tourney penalty box for awhile to teach them a lesson. 5. Adjustments to avg== granted to tables which cannot finish a clocked round, due to a connection problem or delay in waiting for a sub to be found. I think running out of time is avg - - so this is only 10% extra but recognizes that it is nobody's fault. I only do it if it is clearly unfinishable. Fair to the rest of the field? 6. In a clocked tournament, moving as TD from table to table reveals that not all are perfectly synched during later rounds, sometimes as much as a minute out. Is this the black and yellow flashing Minutes Left: 0 serving as a grace period? 7. This Actually Happened Dept.: Table 1 East message to me: "Can you come and tell these people to describe their bids in point ranges?" Off I go to Table 1, where the auction was 2H END, and 2H has a bubble describing it as "weak, natural." I explain privately to East that this is clearly a normal weak two, probably 6-10 or so, not really neccesary to be much more specific. We exchange a few private messages, and now South, partner of the declarer, has noticed the TD at the table as a kibitzer and messages me that he is concerned that there is private talking going on! I explain that his side has done nothing wrong but this does not mollify him. It takes a few minutes to convince him that I am not helping his opponents by telling them what his partner holds... 8. How do the team tournaments work? Do you sign up as a team? a pair? Is it like a Swiss Teams? 9. Five rounds of three, seven minutes a board, seems to work well. Both such tourneys I have run have attracted 18+ tables in 30 minutes. 10. I suggest we use a term coined by a loud leggy redhead at our local club here (and of course when a LLR coins a phrase, the whole room hears it). When you are called to a table and you arrive to find out that nothing has happened, I suggest you announce to the Tournament that a DIRECTOR PSYCHE has just occurred. You might even say "Director Psyche number three--any guess on how many we'll have by the end?" :) --McBruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRG Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Questions and ramblings...[...snip...] 10. I suggest we use a term coined by a loud leggy redhead at our local club here (and of course when a LLR coins a phrase, the whole room hears it). When you are called to a table and you arrive to find out that nothing has happened, I suggest you announce to the Tournament that a DIRECTOR PSYCHE has just occurred. You might even say "Director Psyche number three--any guess on how many we'll have by the end?" :) --McBruceI LIKE that!!! A great addition to the jargon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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