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[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

WBF Code of Practice, "Hot Seat Rulings":

[snip]

>An aspect that has special significance,
>when a player meets a quite unusual
>bidding situation and takes time to
>deliberate, is how clearly it is apparent to
>partner what is the nature of his problem.

[snip]

>A sympathetic treatment of the law here
>should be an aim and it is an area in which
>regulating authorities may find it helpful to
>give guidance.

Richard Hills:

This WBF CoP advice carefully (and presumably
deliberately) fails to grasp the nettle,
instead devolving guidance to local regulating
authorities.

But it seems to me that when Law 73D1 mentions
"steady tempo", the word "steady" may depend
partly on context.  That is, if a 20 second
pause may be deemed to be so slow as to be a
break in tempo in a routine auction, that same
20 second pause may instead be deemed to be
"steady tempo" in a hot seat auction.  Indeed,
calling after a mere 10 seconds in a hot seat
auction may well be deemed to be faster than
"steady tempo", thus providing UI to pard that
one's hot seat call was clearcut.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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