[Lobowolf]

So, if you don't set a card, BBO defaults you to SAYC. You're not supposed to be playing anything else if you don't have a card posted. I've had (multiple times) players deviate (in the extreme) from SAYC, which has to be one of two things - an agreement to play something other than posted SAYC card, or a psych. Or is there a third possibility? When I've raised questions about certain auctions (usually in the last round, when the players in question have left), I've been told, "We have to know what the agreement is." But my question is, isn't the default posted SAYC "the agreement"? What's the point of BBO defaulting people to the SAYC if it there's apparently not even a presumption that that's what they're playing? If you don't post a card, and the system posts SAYC for you, then my take is, until you replace it with a card of your own making, SAYC *is* "the agreement." Am I completely out to lunch here?

[diana_eva]

As far as I know this applies to ACBL tourneys only. Other tourneys default to GIB 2/1. Free tourneys ran by volunteers don't have a default CC.

[barmar]

Even in ACBL tourneys, I think this rule is mostly ignored. There are lots of pick-up partnerships who don't have time to fill in a CC, and as round 1 begins they're often still discussing agreements.