[blml] Multiple Teams : Fouled Board

[Robin Barker]

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From: blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org
[mailto:blml-bounces at amsterdamned.org]On Behalf Of Steve Wright
Sent: 07 November 2006 20:34
To: blml at rtflb.org
Subject: [blml] Multiple Teams : Fouled Board


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.
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In EBU-land we would give protection if the other table got an exceptional result; but only if the side with the good result was not all at fault for the board being unplayable.  In your case North and East are both a fault so there would be no adjustment. 

The regulations do not distinguish between multiple teams and head-to-head matches.  The result that would be awarded for the fouled board would be the normal result on the board (e.g. a making game) and the assigned score would be the IMPs for the normal result against the exceptional result.

Robin


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