[blml] San Diego Lightfoot Sue [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[John Probst]

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From: "Ed Reppert" <ereppert at rochester.rr.com>
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Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] San Diego Lightfoot Sue [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]



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> ACBL club owners/managers typically don't specify such regulations.
> Recently, when I asked a local club owner who'd asked me to direct
> her game (last night's game, in fact) what convention regulations she
> wished to be in place, she said "just be nice to the players". I'm
> told by some correspondents that "it's just a club game, who cares?"
> Doesn't seem a very professional attitude for a TD - or an SO - to
> take, but given that attitude it's not surprising that nobody
> specifies what alert regulations should be in force in their online
> games.
>
BridgeClubLive certainly does.  Each "room" has the alerting system defined. 
The EBU room is "EBU alerting". I'd guess the ABF room is ABF alerting. The 
international rooms are WBF alerting, and all tournaments have their 
alerting rules specified in the CoC. The club spends a lot of effort on 
educating the members, and by and large, the alerting procedures are well 
followed. We adjust scores for the MI causing damage associated with failure 
to alert (as one would in a f2f game) and this impacts the players ratings 
directly.

  cheers John (ChienFou) Probst;  CTD BridgeClubLive
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