Re: Quick question for any directors out there please.

David Stevenson wrote:

> Kieran Dyke wrote
>>
>>>>>   First, as explained before, he has the wrong basis, which is Ro18.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Second, opening a hand which does not follow the requirements is
>>>>>not  illegal.  What is illegal is having an agreement to open with
>>>>>less than  R018.  The TD could judge that from one hand, but this
>>>>>description  sounds  as though he has gone wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Third, your openings, as described elsewhere, *do* sound illegal
>>>>>to  me.  You are not allowed to just open any 7 loser hand.
>>>>
>>>>By which law is this regulation sup****ted?
>>>
>>>   The same one as last time you asked this question.
>>
>>So, are the openings illegal because they're conventional, or because
>>they're a king below average strength?
>>
>>Or is the Rule of 18/19 just one big lie?
> 
>    As I told you last time, and the time before, we do not ban openings
> weaker than this: we make them unplayable by banning conventions
> thereafter, which is legal.

Except that in this case, the director's ruling appears to be that the
_bid_
was illegal, not any followups - and since the following bid was natural,
I
would think it should have been permitted whether or not the regulation
was
Ro18 or Ro19.  So while _you_ don't ban such bids, some EBU directors seem
to.