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These are some of the issues:
1. you cannot challenge his decisions, if you do - you are expelled for life,
2. you cannot argue with him, if you do - see #1,
3. whenever there is a discussion in the tournament chat, he is either patronizing or rude,
4. you cannot be late at a start of the tournament, if you do - you are expelled for a week, at least,
5. you cannot have any connectivity problems, if you do - the same as #4,
6. TD arbitrarily sets the number of players participating on a given day (there are over 1200 members, the maximum number of lucky players allowed = 120, sometimes 100)
7. One day, TD did not show up, and there was a bunch of players on a reservation list ready to start so I started chatting with two of them. Apparently, there was a problem with in the past, he was suspended or something 3 years ago.
I understand, TDs are volunteers, they spend their private time allowing others to have a good time. But this man evidently strives to exercise his power while directing.
So my question is this. Do we need something like an appeal/review committee that monitors and assists TDs to do the best possible job and the BBO members to have the chance to continue playing with a group of friends even if there were some (minor) problems in the past?