[blml] When to late

[Sven Pran]

> On Behalf Of Eric Landau
> At 02:21 PM 1/2/07, twm wrote:
> 
> >My current understanding is that the ACBL prohibits reserving rights in
> >any way and that many ACBLers feel they can only protect themselves by
> >calling the TD when UI is made available.
> 
> Quite correct.  Those "many ACBLers" are, however, wrong.  Per ACBL
> policy, the TD should be called when one has reason to believe that an
> opponent may have violated L16.  I'm not sure, though, that that's what
> they really mean.  Many ACBLers do not call the TD when the UI is made
> available, but wait until the recipient of the UI makes a potentially
> questionable bid (in practice, 99% of the time this is a non-pass after
> partner's huddle).  Still others wait until they've seen the potential
> offender's hand, and call the TD only if they judge that a violation
> has occurred and they may have been damaged thereby.  Since the TD's
> inevitable response to either of the first two actions is "call me back
> at the end of the hand if you think you may have been damaged", I
> believe the ACBL intends the third.  I assume that the reason the ACBL
> has chosen to exercise the SO option in L16A is to eliminate those
> superfluous "advance" TD calls.

And exactly how does ACBL expect their directors to handle cases where the
alleged offending side "swears to God" there was no BIT five minutes ago,
and had they known that the other side eventually would have claimed BIT
they would immediately have summoned the Director to have that question
clarified?

This is no fiction of mine, this is reality.

Sven