[TimG]

I seem to recall a recent story of four foreign players entering a bracketed KO. When the director asked them how many masterpoints, they professed not to know, but offered that they had recently won the Vanderbilt. The director assigned the team 100,000 points.

I know it is not the same as a flighted event where one player alone can automatically put a team (or pair) into the top flight, but it is not so dissimilar so as not to be relevant.

[TimG]

This topic was recently opened in rgb, today there was an interesting response, a portion of which I quote here:

"I know for a fact that Lucas asked the ACBL for "seeding" points and was told "NO". So
he basically shrugged his shoulders and began with zero. Usually, because of good teammates, he has been in bracket 1. In the last couple of years, due to being hired by Joyce Hampton, he has often played in bracket 2 in regional events. Lucas did EXACTLY what he ethically was required or expected to do. The ACBL screwed up by first not awarding seeding points, then later deciding he was ineligible to take credit in is mini-spingold win."

Tim

[Stephen Tu]

I think finally after much discussion among ACBL BoD/Pres they decided the ACBL had screwed up way too much in the past in terms of vaguely written CoC and inconsistent enforcement of the foreign MP rules that they decided to reverse the disqualification & restore the original result, and try to fix the rules in the future. Which is reasonable IMO.