[McBruce]

1. Two players during a 20-table tourney I ran claimed to have to leave part-way through (separate incidents, one in round 3 of 5, one in round 5). Neither seemed to be avoiding a bad score and both told me that they had to leave and apologized. I didn't press for details. Should we perhaps be keeping lists of the players who leave to make sure that people are serious about staying the duration? I'm comfortable with 2 out of 80 having an emergency, what do others think?

2. Is the sign-up as a substitute working? I signed up as a sub for a tourney in progress, messaged the director to say I had done so and got a reply thanking me and saying I might be needed, but then about five times he called for a sub from the lobby. Later I ran a tourney and changed the tourney message to "this tourney has begun, if you'd like to sub, please sign up and do not kibitz" but the subs list was always empty. I thought of signing up as a sub myself but didn't want to risk a crash. Is it possible it is not working?

3. 2D (5-5 with 1 major and 1 minor), pass, 2S (preferring hearts), pass, pass. The explanations were clear to me but confused the player in the pass-out seat. I clarified the explanations for him: "your LHO has better hearts than spades, but RHO appears to have spades and a minor." I was careful to point out that I was interpreting their explanations and not their actual hands. If you can assist a player with an unclear explanation is it reasonable to do so?

--McBruce

[Karma]

1) seems reasonable. I usually have someone that has to leave during a tourney. I record the names of clients that leave after a bad result. I don't know what to do with the list yet. Again it is usually one or two per tourney, and usually in the early rounds.

2) full subbing will work when everyone has the newest client program. 3.4.9

3) absolutely.