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The
Committee decided to believe that East had wanted to double,
but had taken a green card inadvertently. The Committee
believed that she had tried to change her call without pause
for thought. If this was indeed the case, then East should
have been allowed to change her call without penalty,
according to Law 25A. The Committee did not want to change the
ruling without hearing the Director one last time, and it
turned out he may well have ruled as he did because of
language problems at the table. The Director, having also
heard the evidence presented at the Committee hearing,
indicated that he had no problem with the Committee's
decision. Since there basically was no Director's error, there
was no reason to rule under Law 82C, which could provide for
average plus to both sides, but rather under Law 93B3, which
allows the Committee to exercise the Director's powers. So
basically the Committee decides to allow the change of call.
Now in some cases, this might lead to an incomplete board, but
in this particular case, the Committee decided that the board
would end with a contract of 2ª doubled, making the same number of
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result was changed to 2ª
doubled, down three, -500 to both
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