A club night at Durham University saw the following peach of a deal come up:

West dealt, so usually the auction will be opened 1 and after a 1 response from East, there should be an uncontested auction to some contract. Perhaps 3NT, perhaps 5... perhaps something poor? Well, for a really poor final contract, you need a really poor auction; and a really poor auction starts with a really poor opening bid. And Tom Oag found such a bid - 1NT. The auction then proceeds:

The 1NT opening (12-14pts) is an awful bid as the shape is wrong. Tom just kinda counted 12 points and bid 1NT without any further thought. But then he followed this up by deciding to show the diamond suit at the 5 level, to try to recover the mistake, which does not work as 5 is bid by Sergei, sitting East, who does not know what's going on. It's obviously time to give up and the ridiculous score of 5X-4 for 1100 to north/south.

As an aside, at the other table, there was the far more sane auction:

This contract goes +3, scoring -690 to N/S and, since the match is scored with IMPs, they end up going for -18.