[uday]

When a player is subbed into a tourney, and that player has already played in the same tourney, the scoring gets a little confused.

I have no idea why someone who has finished a tourney would volunteer to be a sub in that same tourney; but they do volunteer, as I discovered to my chagrin yesterday.

Anyway. I will find a way to stop this in server code. In the meantime, this is an FYI. Perhaps mentioning the name of the tourney in the "Need sub" would help.

[JRG]

There is another problem when making substitutions.

If a member who is kibitzing is substituted (at some other table), then he will play some of the hands he has already seen.

This happened to me yesterday when I was kibitzing and saw a chat message to "Tournament" for substitutes. I volunteered and played two or three hands I had already seen. It was not a problem as the tables I saw bid fairly normally and I simply repeated the same bids (even though I knew the result would not be good). I was dummy for two of the hands and held a yarborough on defense on the third (partner had to realize he had the setting trick and not panic).

I would suggest, as a work-around, that substitutes be requested from the lobby, not the tournament. I assume that since the same set of hands is going to be played by most (I hope!) of the pairs, that this problem cannot be avoided without barring substitutes who have been kibitzing.

Or is this only a problem with "untimed" tournaments?

John