[blml] almost TD problem

[David Grabiner]

Jeff Easterson writes:

> After play the gentleman LHO who was N or S scored the hand as 3 hearts
> making, -140 for NS. The lady said it had been doubled. The gentleman
> said he knew this but refused to score it as doubled after the
> hesitation.  He was quite adamant about this and refused to call the TD.
>  The lady (who didn't want to make waves and cause any problems as a
> foreigner) did not call either so the score was recorded as 140.
> Now we finally get to my question.  Assuming that you, as TD, had been
> called, or was informed in some way of the occurrence, what would you
> do?

This wasn't an ACBL event, but the ACBL does have a standard set of 
discplinary regulations at 
http://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/CurrentCode.pdf, which is useful 
as a guideline.  One of the listed offenses is "intentionally [changing] a 
score or any information that could result in awarding incorrect 
masterpoints," and the standard penalty is a suspension of 180 days to one 
year.  That would apply at a tournament; this was a club game, and it would 
be appropriate for the club director to suspend the player from that club 
(possibly not for a full 180 days) and report the event to the national 
disciplinary committee.