[awm]

After some discussion, the director decided to restore the table result and penalize team L by 6 VPs (which dropped them out of the overalls, but they still get match awards).

As a member of team L I can perhaps comment a little bit on what happened. The team captain is a very regular player at the club, who was playing with a hired pro. Usually the pro turns in the match results (when team L wins). But for some reason he decided to leave prior to even comparing scores for the last round (he actually does this fairly frequently; guess he needs to be home for some reason). I was on the other pair and somewhat out of it (it was late, has been a long few days) and figured that I hadn't handled comparisons and results for any of the other rounds I would not need to do anything this round either. My partner was worried about her ride home and had to rush out and make phone calls and make sure things were in order. So we left it to our team captain -- but she hadn't turned in a score all night and didn't realize it was her job this time either!

Obviously this is a big screw-up and I have no real issue with the director's final decision. Some of the other possibilities suggested seemed uncalled for though (ban our team from the club for a week? let the misreported result stand?)

[blackshoe]

You would have to let the misreported result stand if the Correction Period had expired. Apparently it had not, so correcting it should be routine.