[Hoobloid]

Sometimes I simply host a tournament because there is nothing for me to play in. I have also created a few events and gone off to bed because 1). it's past my bedtime and 2). there are no other events in the next 1/2 hour or whatever.

It appears however that in my/the TDs absence players have been unable to substitute sitouts etc when there have been subs available. I am guessing that the absence of the TD is disabling this in some fashion.

Players seem to be able to do substitutions themselves when I am there anyway so why not if I am in my bed?

I suppose it would be nice for all the competitive players out there if an Auto Tournament feature could be implemented. An Individual event that has as many tables as appropriate with the latest remainder of entrants placed on the subs list. Substitutions would be automatic if connections were lost for a period of time - 20 seconds? Ideally there would some way of replacing unresponsive players as well. All entrants would accept these conditions of course.

Stu

[spwdo]

dont create tourneys with no td present please
some players when down will not finisch hands, convenient slowplay.
players will not alert.
players will talk whatever language is their first.
causing a lot of grieve unneeded
some ppl dodnt know how to sub
created and played a tourney last night, specificully wrote in tourneyinfo english only at the table, alert conventional bids and some other things, first round had i had non english, non alerting opps.Third round one player passed partners cue bid(unalerted off course) , he stopped playing, didnt answer my questions so he went for the A-.Later on in tourney he called mutiple times because he needed adjustment himself.

My point even when td is there these things-issues happen .So thefore every tourney must have a present td who tries and do his job as best as he can, personally i think tds who create stuff just to create because nothing is on and go offline shoud have their tdpriviliges taken away.Nothing more irritated then a td not present.
BTW it is not posible to substitute a sitoutpair for players opposite of the sitout, one minor reason we need a td present.

I think NOBODY is asking party for a not present td, at least be smart enough to create a survivor mode tourney where missing-) also NO sitouts' and so on can be discarded and when ppl come aware that they are in a monster of unpresent TD tourney they can log off and get excused.REally why woud anyone create a thing where no adjust is possible. if the only motivation is to create something because there are only payed things on , leave it please.

Many times a tourney has caused bad blood from a td taken a wrong dissision, well this beats it all.Do not do this please, create and be there and do your best or dont bother

Regards Marc

[Hoobloid]

Just figured out the Survivor option though that is not for individual events.

I understand your points but most players would rather play in an event than at the ordinary tables IMHO. Most players would recognise the limitations of an absent 'TD' and recognise that it would be just for fun.

Incidentally the usual time that I would set up an event and 'disappear' is 24:00/0:00 UK time = about 19:00 USA etc. I find the lack of events at this time quite surprising. :s

Stu

[uday]

A yellow who spots a T running w/out a TD will likely report this to the other yellows, and we'll remove the TDs ability to create Ts. Please don't deliberately start tourneys unless you know there will be a TD present.

[Hoobloid]

I guess that's me told off then.....