Managing Slow Play
At our various congresses we have a pair who are notoriously slow, often being a board behind everyone else at the end of a 7 or 8 board round.
I can (and do) take a board off them, but that can be unfair to whoever they're playing.
I can of course award 60/40, but I need evidence that one side is at fault, and "it's always you" doesn't really count. If I instead award 50/50, their opponents will often (quite rightly) complain.
So I wondered if this would work as a condition of contest:
"Any pair consistently in the last 5% to finish a round will be deemed to be at fault if a board is taken away in any round through slow play, unless the Director determines otherwise."
Thoughts?