PeppeA

Of course i'd be very glad if i could have a personal option to set this matter; i think it is such a personal question, that it could be solved only this way. Thanks to the wonderful team for caring.

Let me say, pls, that i hate new settings for robot tourneys; I never played with dummy's cards close to me and mines as declarer far and in front of me. This is terribly confounding me: i must continuously remember who is the dummy and who's the declarer and which cards are hidden and which ones are shown to the opponents :-(

I played 7 of 8 boards and was 1st ranking in #6334 Robot Duplicate - (IMP); then i had to go to door and stayed far for some minutes; when i was back the clock showed still 7 minutes to the end of tourney, but there was a pop up telling that for bbo i was far away and it was going to close: i hadn't time to study the board to bid, when it has been suddenly closed. I asked the very kind yellow Chas_P, who told me that "those games are timed for inactivity. obviously you were away for too long." So i expressed my doubts about the reason to time those games for inactivity: they are already timed to a maximum to play; i mean: i cannot occupy the table indefinitely, so where is the danger for the system? Chas_P kindly replied that there is no "danger to the system". the purpose for the timer is to keep the game moving for ALL the players. Pls allow me to observe that i can understand this necessity for long tourneys, i miss the reason of it for short ones - i had often to wait more than 10 mins to have my final result , while other player were finishing a robot-duplicate and accepted it as part of those tourneys way of being. (please believe me: i feel worst for my good ranking wasting than for my quarter) TY for caring. PeppeA