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Re: A different perspective on disrupting coopertition bridge balancing

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
You mean, aside of 2007, 2008, and 2011 where it was illegal to score for your opponent? Can't recall if you were allowed to in 2005.
Loading from your opponent's loading zones was a penalty in 2005, IIRC. I don't remember a penalty for picking up dropped tetras and scoring them, but there was the risk that you'd ruin rows, which could have a potentially disastrous (to you) point swing. (Depending where exactly you placed a single tetra, you could easily gain 13 points while depriving your opponent of 10. The 2005 Championship was won at least partially by just such a 23-point swing from a tetra landing on a row, breaking it up, while creating a row for the other alliance.)

I don't recall any rule for this year saying that you can't score in your opponent's hoops; however, the bridge bonuses make such a strategy risky in the extreme.
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