So the plan was to play 3 matches of 10 boards each so that each pair got to play with every other pair (and there'd be a winner and/or a loser.)  We squeaked through our match against Jeff and David when they had a system drop (imagine that!) on one hand, missed a slam on another, and their teammates took a phantom save on a third.  Their only significant plus position was a thin game that Waldemar and Piotr missed.

Our next match started poorly when we stopped in 3 Diamonds and 3NT rolled home at the other table after the wrong lead (we were wide open in Clubs, but the auction made it impossible to find at the other table.)

Then 2 boards later, this fiasco occurred:

I picked up in 4th at unfavorable.

J64 / KQT95 / A5 / 643

Nic L'Ecuyer opened 1NT on my Left and it went all pass.  After the auction it was established that 1NT was 11-14, but that didn't change anything (most players, myself included, are less inclined to come in over a mini-NT than over a big NT.)

Partner led the King of Clubs and dummy tracked:

T5 / J643 / Q832 / T82

I discouraged clubs (Hervé prefers standard carding) and prayed for the unlikely Heart switch.  Unfortunately, the inevitable Spade (the eight) hit the table and I played the Jack after a brief pause for thought (it looks like Nic has AKQ9 but who knows?)  Nic won the Ace and played a low Spade up.  Now it was partner's turn to think, and he produced the 9, allowing the Ten to win.  Now Nick played a low Diamond off the board.  You're up.

- / J643 / Q832 / T8  Dummy (on your Right)

4 / KQT95 / A5 / 64  You

I was worried that Nick was trying to steal a 7th trick and that partner would never find a Heart switch from Ax.  I flew Ace of Diamonds and put a baby Heart on the table.  When Nick paused to think, I knew my goose was cooked.

Here's the hand I was playing for:

T5 / J643 / Q832 / T82

AK732 / XX / KXX / AXX

If that's the hand, my defense is the only way to save the day.  Unfortunately he can't have this hand because surely partner would have continued clubs instead of switching, in spite of my discouraging signal.

On the actual hand, Nick ducked my heart switch around to Dummy's Jack, his 7th trick.  Doh.

T5 / J643 / Q832 / T82

AK732 / A7 / JT4 / Q97

He scored 5! Spades, 2 Hearts (without losing any Heart tricks) and a Diamond, even while misguessing the end position.  That definitely qualifies as ugly.

-120 cost us 6 IMPs (the good news is that Nic stretched to bid 3NT on the next board after witnessing our defense on this one and we got the 6 IMPs right back.)