[hrothgar]

I am attaching the complete text from an email posted to the Bridge Laws mailing list. I do not in any way endorse any of the opinions that Marv presents in this email.

However, I felt that the chance in origanization structure would be of widespread interest...

I wasn't sure if this was more appropriate fro "The Watercooler" or "Offline Bridge". I have no objection if folks think it should be moved someplace else.

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Okay here's most of the story.

The position of Chief Tournament Director is abolished. Rick Beye is
out of Memphis and is now just another TD. He may have irritated
some politico or the buddy of a politico, as he seemed to be very
competent.. Read  Bobby Wolff's excellent book The Lone Wolff for an
insider's view of ACBL politics.

About seven regional supervisors will be in charge of the ACBL TDs
in their regions. Matt Smith is one of them. Rick Beye is not, I
believe..

In addition there are two new  positions:

Head of Field Employees (TDs) - Jeff Johnson. I do not know his
duties, but I think they are probably more administrative than
technical.

Jeff is a very capable guy who has been in charge of NABC equipment
provisioning for years. I believe he is also a well-qualified TD.
He's the one who got me a used Duplicate Machine some years ago,
leading to the widespread practice of pre-duplicating boards in our
District 22 sectionals and regionals as well as in the two San Diego
clubs.

Head of Office Employees - Barbara Varner. I do not know her duties
either.

DICs and AICs of the three NABCs have been determined:

Spring - Chris Patrias and John Ashton
Summer - Sol Weinstein and Doug Grove
Fall - Millard Nachtwey and Gary Zeiger

Chris was DIC at the Houston NABC, where I was disgusted to find
that across-the-field  (ATF) matchpointing was not practiced in
non-NABC+ pair events, even the two-session regionally-rated
events. When I asked Chris about this, he said the reason was that
ATF scoring errors mean that multiple sections are affected and
people do not like going to dinner and finding their good score
reduced when they return. That is baloney, IMO, and the true reason
is that TDs don't like running around to hang up revised scores for
multiple sections. ACBLScore has the option of in-section session
ranking, so that eliminates one old objection to ATF matchpointing.

Marv
Marvin L French
San Diego, CA
www.marvinfrench.com

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Thanks for posting this. I did read Bobby Wolff's book and won't ever look at news like this again without remembering his accounts. The ACBL is definitely an organization to steer clear of.

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hrothgar, on Apr 24 2009, 07:50 AM, said:

Chris was DIC at the Houston NABC, where I was disgusted to find
that across-the-field  (ATF) matchpointing was not practiced in
non-NABC+ pair events, even the two-session regionally-rated
events. When I asked Chris about this, he said the reason was that
ATF scoring errors mean that multiple sections are affected and
people do not like going to dinner and finding their good score
reduced when they return. That is baloney, IMO, and the true reason
is that TDs don't like running around to hang up revised scores for
multiple sections. ACBLScore has the option of in-section session
ranking, so that eliminates one old objection to ATF matchpointing.

We used to call it the Sid Davidson rule, he always felt across the field scoring took away matchpoints from the lesser players and lesser players were afforded more section tops with no across the field scoring.