[pigpenz]

last night one of the ACBL TD's by accident or purpose ran the tourney with no kibbers. The results were interesting for a 12 board tourney. All of the top ten were within 4 imps of each other with a high score of 26 imps. Normally it takes about a score of 50+ to win the overall and the spread on the top ten is usually about 25+ imps.

I wish they would do this more often or at least run more games like this and see if there is a difference in the scoring and play or at least run one or two games a day like this. The idea that the ACBL likes the exposure by allowing kibbing ...hmmm.....I dont really know if thats true.

But it would be nice to play in a game where you feel thinkgs are a little more even steven than most games.....NOW IF ONLY SOME ACBL TD'S READ THESE FORUMS

[uday]

The ACBL (the organization in memphis) is not involved in our games any more than it is involved in the games at your local bridge club.

We - acbl@bridgebase - make decisions like this.

Many people enjoy speccing tourneys. Some small % of people enjoy cheating, or perhaps the risk of being caught.

I would not take one data point too seriously, but you can make the suggestion to acbl@ -- this allow/disallow spec discussion comes up once in a while in forums and the feedback is usually in favour of allowing specs

[pigpenz]

i understand as this has been brought up a thousand time before but boy it sure makes the bridge more enjoyable its just too bad that i have never seen an acbl TD even post a comment on the fourms....and the <edited:ui> Gweny is the one who makes deciscions

[Gerben42]

Sorry but to score 50+ you need endless help from your opponents. I guess is somehow this had nothing to do with "no kibitzers" but was just a coincidence.

And perhaps the hand were quite dull.