It has been explained to me by B.B.O. that in robot race/reward comps we are dealt different board anyway, hence you can see point's for a slam going up as you are trying to make a part score and this explains why, when you feel you have played well and put a 1000pts up, someone else puts 6000pts up. The other day I played in a match point comp where my robot refused twice to ruff there winning trick, they then drew trumps, it had 3 trumps small ones so no trump promotion and they made there contract, the robots all played at a fast pace. I then played in a reward comp where the pace of play slows to a crawl, so much so that in the last hand I am about to make a slam, the last cards are played to my ace and the last robot took nearly 1 minute to play (I timed it) and the overall time runs out before he can do so, thereby making that hand void and I lose the points and money. I think its a racket.
