[Treveur]

I cannot believe we can score over 62% and come in 3rd in our section. We have no chance in this Regional. Why bother playing if cheaters are rewarded?

[pilowsky]

Treveur, on 2020-June-28, 11:08, said:

I cannot believe we can score over 62% and come in 3rd in our section. We have no chance in this Regional. Why bother playing if cheaters are rewarded?

How did they cheat?

[mikeh]

Treveur, on 2020-June-28, 11:08, said:

I cannot believe we can score over 62% and come in 3rd in our section. We have no chance in this Regional. Why bother playing if cheaters are rewarded?

Many years ago, in a large 28 table club game, my partner and I had a 70% game and came second in section. 65% was good for 4th

One unusual result does not make a pattern

[Zelandakh]

Treveur, on 2020-June-28, 11:08, said:

I cannot believe we can score over 62% and come in 3rd in our section. We have no chance in this Regional. Why bother playing if cheaters are rewarded?

This is the highest score you have achieved for nearly a year. Are you sure it was the 40 odd pairs above you that were doing the cheating?

[nige1]

Harold Franklin once announced "Omar Sharif claims, on public record, that anybody who scores more than 70% in a high-quality pairs event must be cheating. Hence, it gives me pleasure to announce that the winners, with over 70%, are Rixi Markus and Omar Sharif."

[McBruce]

nige1, on 2020-June-28, 20:32, said:

Harold Franklin once announced "Omar Sharif claims, on public record, that anybody who scores more than 70% in a high-quality pairs event must be cheating. Hence, it gives me pleasure to announce that the winners, with over 70%, are Rixi Markus and Omar Sharif."

I am sure that Rixi would immediately have responded that she had not encountered many high quality pairs...

[mycroft]

I remember a pair game in my club. I think it was 6 table Howell. I remember it for three reasons:

- it was labelled "[Mycroft]'s Birthday Pairs", because, well, it was.
- my partner and I won the event by half a matchpoint.
- 70.0x% was *second* (49% was third).

[McBruce]

mycroft, on 2020-June-29, 15:53, said:

I remember a pair game in my club. I think it was 6 table Howell. I remember it for three reasons:

- it was labelled "[Mycroft]'s Birthday Pairs", because, well, it was.
- my partner and I won the event by half a matchpoint.
- 70.0x% was *second* (49% was third).

Our record in Vancouver comes from the 1980s, when the biggest club had a thriving Friday Evening game followed monthly by a TGIF that would sometimes go until the sun came up, with drinking, rubber bridge, poker, and backgammon. Following one of these, the Saturday evening game was the dreaded 5-pair Howell where top is 1 and all play 20 boards and miss 5. One pair (who had not attended the frivolity of the night before) finished with 12%. The real joke was the 78% score that was second.