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[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Mike Amos:

[snip]

>>I would invite the pair concerned to appeal.  It
>>really pisses me off when I'm the CTD for an event
>>and the Regulations are useless.  If a suitable
>>Appeals Committee ruled that the system was
>>allowed I'd accept their advice but suggest that a
>>new CTD was found (in the next ten minutes :))

Konrad Ciborowski:

[snip]

>As much as I am all for systems freedom I
>absolutely require full disclosure - if you don't
>have it on your CC you cannot play it. Period.

Cootamundra Congress Teams
Sunday 24th June 2007
Round 1, Board 1

North-South are Hashmat Ali and Richard Hills.
East-West are Wayne Burrows and Konrad Ciborowski.
The Director is Mike Amos.

Imps
Dlr: North
Vul: Nil

The bidding has gone:

WEST      NORTH     EAST      SOUTH
Wayne     Richard   Konrad    Hashmat
---       1H        Pass      1S

Richard alerts Hashmat's 1S response, explaining that
although it is a natural call, it is also a non-forcing
call.  Wayne summons the Director, and complains that:

"This method over a natural 1H has not been disclosed
on their card nor was any verbal pre-alert given of
this response.  Will you allow Konrad and me time to
prepare a defence to this unusual and undisclosed
agreement?"

The Director, Mike Amos replies:

"The ABF alert regulations do seem to require advance
pre-alert notification of system so clearly it was the
regulation writers' intention to demand advance
disclosure of this 1S response to 1H.  No one can deny
that this non-forcing response is 'unusual', and I would
expect Cootamundra country congress competitors to
understand their obligations."

However.....

The Chief Tournament Director over-rules the Director,
deeming that the 1S response to 1H is such a trivial
part of the Ali-Hills system that it would need a pre-
alert only in a Canberra Bridge Club supervised play
session.  The CTD offers Wayne a free game therein.

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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