Disaster!
Well, here it is, the most wrongheaded, convention-laden, screwed-up sequence that ever missed a cold slam. I've never seen a more flagrant misuse of conventions and doubt if you ever will. Eleven spades and six hearts and they wind up in . . . they wind up in . . . hearts?
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 K Q |
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 A Q 8 4 3 2 |
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 A K Q 10 |
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 Q |
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A J 10 9 6 5 4 3 2 |
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8 |
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K J 4 |
| West | North | East | South |
| Pass |
1 * |
Pass |
1 * |
| Pass |
1 NT* |
Dbl |
2 * |
| Pass |
2 * |
Pass |
3 * |
| Pass |
3 NT* |
Pass |
4 NT* |
| Pass |
6 |
All |
pass |
* Alerted |
Nine bids, every one of the first eight alerted to wind up not just in the wrong spot, but a flagrantly wrong spot. The opening bid looks like a short club forcing bid, as in Precision. Beyond that, I don't even want to speculate on what each bid means. I don't know and it seems evident that they didn't know either, unless you want to postulate a pair that likes winding up in such an inferior contract.