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Maybe we can put up the ACBL casebooks (assuming it is legal) and make these required reading.

I agree 100%, or maybe WBF but am sure they are very close to being the same.

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Are there any such things as online quizbooks for TDs with which we could test or score new TDs .

I even agree more here.

Mike

[sceptic]

I help direct occasinally and some people call director and when you ask them what the issue is they don't say a word or answer the directors messages, so it is easy to understand why their pick up p's don't know who called the director as the director sometimes has no idea why they are called to the table either.

As for anything else to do with bridge, I am incompetant to judge the rights and wrongs of any decision due to lack of knowledge, but as a helping TD I am perfectly qualified to find subs and replace people, which sometimes GOOD TD's need to allow them to manage the issues.

I do not direct ACBL events and possibly I am 10 years away from being competant, BUT, some of us incompetant TD;s can help some people have a stable 10 - 12 hands of FUN bridge, only play in ACBL events if you want perfection and avoid FUN tourneys set up by people like myself who just fancy a few hands of stable bridge (as far as a tourney can be stable), it wont take you long to avoid idiots llike me running my tourneys, just stick to the expert TD's tourneys and I am sure that there are a lot about.


And certainly, I can not understand how anyone, can expect anything other than mayhem and disorder, when you are about to have 10 - 12 hands with 10 - 12 different partners who could play loads of different systems and speak loads of different languages. a recipe for fun (unless you take the game seriously) then I dont understand why you play in an indy, they are just FUN after all.

My advice is only play in the tournaments you know have top class directors.

as gerben stated [/QUOTEMy humble opinion is that the correct action is to take all directing powers away from whoever decided this.
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YOU will find if you take the power away from the directors that have no idea what they are doing (or even only if they have restricted ability)(or worse make a bad decision) you will take away a lot of peoples fun

[luke warm]

in response to uday's post, neither north nor south were abrasive in the least, nobody even asked us anything... i don't know about any private messages... the director simply came to the table (you can look at the bridge movie to see when, i think 5 tricks had been played), said "3S was an improper bid, assigning avg - " and left.. since this was last board, we immediately went 'out'

the director wasn't there long enough to know whether or not 5H was a good, bad, or indifferent contract... because of his action we were the first table through on this board, how could he know? and even if he somehow knew 5H was off enough to make it a complete bottom, how does that jive with punishing one pair for some supposed infraction by another?

as far as sceptic's remarks about only playing in tourneys with top flight directors, this was a 'stars plus others' (or something) tourney, the one fred played in... i'm quite sure he and the other experts playing expected quality directors

anyway, i spoke with one of this tourney's directors last night, i was offered an apology and my money back (which i didn't take, that wasn't the issue), and a promise to try to find out why this happened... that's all i want, for someone to tell me what happened and why