[blml] Consult the people.

[Guthrie]

[Eric Landau]
Player holding 3-4-3-3 with opening values attempts to open 1H 
(promising 4+), and is informed that the auction has gone 1S-P-.  1H
is not accepted, and he chooses to bid a non-systemic 2H, which shows
a game force with 5+ hearts.  The auction (opponents silent) proceeds
1S-2H-3H-3S-4H-P.  IBer's normal call over 1S would be 2C (game force
with 4+ clubs or exactly 3-4-3-3), in which case the (systemic)
auction would most likely have been 1S-2C-2D-2S-4S, but IBer could
not bid 2C here, as his partner would have been barred.  4H, in the
4-3 fit, turns out to be a superior contract to 4S in the 5-3 fit
due, and duly makes an extra trick.  L27D would have us adjust the
contract to the normal 4S, with the normal (one trick less than 4H)
result.
[Grattan Endicott]
+=+ Thank you, Eric; I will offer any examples that appear for possible 
discussion in the European Bridge League Seminar. This is for NBO 
officials who set up training courses for TDs in their NBOs. It is to 
take place at the end of the month. In the EBL the Director might decide 
that the pair has a mechanism available that could lead to the better 
contract some of the time; the assigned adjusted score could perhaps
be weighted.

[Nigel]
Great new law :) The insufficient bidder blesses the the new law that 
seems to allow him to beat par after an inauspicious drive, inspired 
recovery play, and a benign rub of the green. But not for long. The 
director is ecstatic -- not only cancelling the table result - but also 
imposing his own meld of imaginary results as an adjusted score. While 
the players gasp in puzzled awe :)