[Mirjam_3]

uday said a nice thing in one his posts... he really has humor... he said: expert td's or suggested td's were experts at what they do...

for me a good reason to laugh since i know from myself i am no expert.. not in play and not as td... but i try to be world class in both of course!!!

what i try to do is being fair and even than i make mistakes.. so why sdnot i and maybe more td's admit that we are almost but not entirey perfect?:

i wd like to use this thread for td's to tell the things that went wrong...
and maybe.. only maybe we can laugh a bit about ourselves?

[Mirjam_3]

humor is a very difficult thing in a foreign language but as td you need it a lot.. i think...so plse help me to develop it

sometimes it takes a long time before a sub is seated...
it happens that i try to sub a player and the player starts to play again before he was subbed...
experience has learned me that mostly the sub will refuse the invitation if some time has passed in the meantime but i feel it as a big blooper if the player get subbed a few minutes later in the middel of a slam...
well. maybe one of you can tell me what wd be a good phrase to tell in that situation?

[Fouad]

A player asked me to adjust his score since he was playing 4h X .... and opp refused his good claim ... i reviewed the board very fast and found that 4h after his sequence of play cannot lose .... so i adjusted the score to 4h X made by NS ...............a moment and found the same player screeeming that he ( EW )played the 4h X and not his opp ... sure i made the mistake ..but had to re adjust it again ..... when we are in a hurry many mistakes apear


Fo at bbo

[aisha759]

I made a big mistake today too but i'm not telling....

Actually might hide for a few days!

[Fouad]

Aisha I ll keep blackmailing you cause i know the mistake u did today untill u post it ... but in my opinion the mistake is a mistake if u did not correct it ...but you did correct it .....so no need to hide


fo

[Mirjam_3]

today i subbed one out at the Climb when i just was going to look for his boards...

[Frosty]

And then there was the time that the nearly perfect TD subbed out the Dummy for not playing when it was his turn

Frosty

[willow23]

There was an incident where some TD I know all my life. <blush> had a request from a table to increase the time as he had a sitout pair at a 7-Min / round tourney.....So at the 1 min blink ..the TD confidently changes round time to 6 min..thinking that all players will get an extra 6 min...when that did not work ..he tries 8 min ...only to see 1 min blinking again...Well , you can just imagine the true confessions session...lol...Sorry .."Newbie TD, Sorry for any inconvenience caused"...lol..I <I mean my friend >had to chuck it up to inexperience ..as that was my first time running a Tournament by my self...as a co-director ..never had to change round time..

Talk about learding the hard way...

[Mirjam_3]

if i run private tournament i sent the members an invitastion stating that there will be a tourney in about half an hour. i sent such a message by chat and i think it only reaches the ones who are at BBO and as far as i know this works.

yesterday i sent the members of my private club the following message by mail (i used mail to reach the people who might came in during the day):

'tournament in 12 hours'

when even remarks came in like 'i cannot be there, i have to work', when the tournament was running i realised that the people got that message when they entered BBO and they counted from that point in eternity

[Gweny]

It is right after I get approval to direct and Total Points Olympics is coming so I think it is good idea to test drive doing Speedball tournament

So I make tournament for 5 min boards with 1 board per round. People is wanting more seats so i happily add more thinking this is very fun.

Tournament start and it is like 200+ tables and bbo lose some major connections and calls start coming in and poof i am boot
tee hee
it is huge mess and one of kind yellows cancel it for me when i am boot.
and also last timei try for 5 min boards!

[Mirjam_3]

in a very busy tournament...

other td, kibitzing a table: hi Ingrid, can you please get player out of here (t 0), he just asked me for that, thought i am TD

i wondered about it since i know this player very well and he finishes always.. than i thought that it might be an emergency.. can happen... cannot it? and i have no reason not to trust the other td... if se is there she might know what and why and i had 6 more calls so not much time to chat... so i said to this other td: 'Ok.'

->Mirjam_3: Automated message: Find substitute: Invitations issued
->Mirjam_3: Automated message: Substitution complete. player has been replaced with player 2

other td: ty dear :-)
Mirjam_3: wc

player (Lobby): I didn't truly want to be replaced, I was just joking to the kibitzer
I always believe in finishing a tournament that I start
->player: ok sure
player (Lobby): thanks anyway

i replace the player...

other td: ooops i am so sorry to bother you Ingrid :-((( he said he was joking about replacement but i took it seriously, silly ... me, please excuse me for giving you so many troubles :-(((
->other td: hehehehe np dear!H all solved

other td: u r the best !h ty dear !

(well it didnt feel that way and of course i replaced player 2 and said sry to him/her after tourney and i hope he never saw i blushed)

[Mirjam_3]

Since i see more and more dutch players on BBO i thought it might be a good idea to try once to make a tournament for dutch players so i created Hemelvaartsdag 2004. I made a description in dutch and than i wondered whether or not i was going to put in my rules. I read them again and i thought: well, i put them in... maybe the alerting rule is too vague but we will see how it goes and anyway if i sub they know they have no right to be replaced if they get online later.

So i put the rules there and i started to advertise for the tournament.

After a few hours a dutch player said:
'Do we have to follow yr rules? It seems not easy to do that this time'

I reread them and there i saw:


USE ENGLISH ONLY

[Mirjam_3]

today i started Glamour with 2 sitouts... luckyly i had 2 subs and i cd sub the sitouts and than i wanted to say hello to the players and after that i had immediately 6 calls...

this is the most painful moment a director can have in her tourney so i took a breath and went to the first call...

player a asked to sub his p xyxx
i looked and saw player xxx which had to bid
in pairs i usually (if i have time) ask the p if he/she needs a sub but here the partner asked to sub so it would be ok... and sometimes names are spelled wrong... with 5 more calls to go i subbed player xxx

i was 2 calls further when player a said: u subbed my p and xyxx still has not bid...

[blackbikin]

yesterday by whatever went trough td's head , who had to leave- i said i'll replace him directing stars( god help me and the rest)......i imediatelly called for 2 tds who are much better then me , for reinforcement, they kindly accepted. in the process of typing their names in i changed the name of tourney ( will not tell into what.) do i have to imigrate¿
barbara

[blackbikin]

player:im back, ive been to brige jail for a week
me:sorry, i can not remeber
player:you put me in bbase jail
me: sorry, i did not bla...bla..rules...bla ( uday!H does dirty work for me)
player:i was in for insulting my partner
me:just do not do it again, calm dawn a nd be nice..bla...bla...
player: but you insulted me
me¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
player:you called banning bridge base jail
me:well, you used the term all way along this coversation
player:i do not like it, it insulting, but i'll get used to it

[Mirjam_3]

Today my neighbour came in while i was running Glamour. Well, all seemed ok, so we had a nice cup of coffee.

Rounds switched and i saw i only needed to adjust one table.
A player asked: Are you adjusting?
Honest me: No

Ten minutes later the partner of this player asked for adjustment so i decided it was time i took a look... 6h down... i filled in everything... ok? Ok! Run!!

The player: Tx so very much dear, well done, u only adjusted board 6 and not 4.

Oops: they were playing board 6... in 3d 2 cards played...

Player: They looked funny when you adjusted!!

I believe that...