A hand from BBO

Bid the following hands...

North:

♠ 3
♥ 97
♦ KJT74
♣ KJ983

South:

♠ A872
♥ AT64
♦ AQ
♣ A54

North dealt, White vs Red, MP Pairs

Our opponents, who had the hand bid it as a simple 1NT - 3NT. I *hate* opening a strong NT on 18, esp. an 18 with all 4 aces, since the wrong thing always happens when partner has 6 or 7 points.

Playing the Canape system, I'd bid the hand like this.

North has a pass, although it's not far off a 1D open, off a queen at most, with that much shape.
South opens 1c (Arguments can be made for 1M also, but the plan is to open 1c, and then raise a 1h/1s bid to game, or rebid 1h over 1NT.
North has two options, either an immediate 2c inverted minor raise, or a 1d bid. 1d is probably the better bid.
South now bids 1h, 4cd M up the line.
North now gets to make an X-Y-Z bid, since 3 one level bids have been made. Playing X-Y-Z a 2c bid here would be a relay to 2d with various invitational type hands. (X-Y-Z is like NMF on steroids). So North bids *3*c, to show a hand with 6-9 HCP and 5 clubs.
South pulls to 3NT.

Net gain: Nil ;) Nothing in the system allows us to find our ice cold (Because E has the Qc doubleton) 6NT (or 6m) so we end up with the field. Just posted this to give an example of the system in action.