[swanway]

EBU

A scoring problem. We were playing a 9 table Howell movement. On the last round there was an arrow switch at some tables. At one table North failed to notice that there was a switch of direction and the boards were played the wrong way. It only happened at one table and on the last round. How do I score this problem? Does the score stand? Is the score cancelled and an adjusted score given? Are both pairs to blame or was it the fault of North? Would appreciate your comments.

[helene_t]

The score stands, hopefully it is not too awkward to let the computer understand that NS/EW were swapped at that table.

BTW do you really mean Howell? I thought arrow switches applied to mitchell movements only.

[Cyberyeti]

 helene_t, on 2012-August-20, 03:40, said:

The score stands, hopefully it is not too awkward to let the computer understand that NS/EW were swapped at that table.

BTW do you really mean Howell? I thought arrow switches applied to mitchell movements only.

There are non full howell type movements where some tables have stationary pairs, who do nothing other than "arrow switch" one round in the middle and one at the end. My local club uses them some of the time.

[P_Marlowe]

Germany.

This has nothing to do with the movement, this can happen all the time, and
does happen.

Score stands, but you need to make the NS pair the EW pair, and vice versa
for the boards played in the wrong direction.

Blame - you have to be there, a common reason is a time rush, NS had to play
long and EW brough the boards to the table, laying the boards wrongly on the
table, ... not their job, but they did it.

In the end, both pairs are responsible, but I would usually give no penalty at
all to the einvolved pairs.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[gordontd]

Usually you can just click a button or type in a letter beside the score to arrow-switch the result. If not, just look at the number of match-points each of the two pairs get, and put in an adjustment that has the effect of reversing their scores.

[barmar]

I don't know the scoring program usually used in EBU, but ACBLScore makes it simple to deal with this. You use its EDMOV (Edit Movement) command, find the round and table, and then tell it to do a full-round swap of NS and EW.