[blml] Multiple Teams : Fouled Board

[Steve Wright]

Playing in a multiple teams event, North and East between them managed 
to foul a board to as to make it unplayable at that table.

The TD ruled that board would be void for that match.

When the board was played on the other table, one of the pairs got into 
a stupid contract and scored -1400. The team that got the good score was 
not amused to have the board voided. But they accepted the TD's ruling 
and at the end of the session they end up as the winners.

In the pub afterwards, one of the winning team wondered if the ruling 
should have been something different. He felt that it seemed wrong to be 
deprived of a good score.

He said that if it had been a straight match between the two teams there 
would have been no choice but to void the board. There would have been 
an option to redeal it; but the "good score" would have to be lost.

However, as it was multiple teams, he felt that there was a case for 
giving an assigned score based for the fouled table based on the average 
of the other seven tables.

I wasn't sure, so I'm asking here.
-- 
Steve Wright
Leicester, England