[blml] adjudication

[Nigel]

[corrected posting]
[Nigel]
Sadly, the EBU tournament committee gave into pressure from the 
directors who who wanted more scope for judgement. The new Orange book 
has
introduced director judgement into evaluating "rule of 25" (or 
whatever) by adding the qualifier "or equivalent".

[Robin Barker]
As far as I know this is complete rubbish - the L&E (not the 
tournament committee) did not change the regulations under pressure 
from TD and
TDs were not pushing for such changes.

[nige1]
IMO, Robin is right that it was the Laws and Ethics committee who made 
the decision but he's mistaken in his other claims. Directors wrote to 
BLML that such regulations could not prevent them from using their
"judgement" in order to "play bridge", I wrote to the L&E, asking them 
to scrap the regulation completely or clarify it and enforce it, so
that players who understood the regulation would no longer lose 
matches by complying with it. The directors' position was eventually 
upheld.  Hence the "or equivalent" qualifier in the Orange book that 
allows director judgement to over-ride objective criteria.