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hi Would be nice also if a td coud actually see the score on each table, we always clueless and we got a lot of question why our 3N+2 makes only 16% mp and so on Hope that whenever current standings will be avaible all will see it and not tds only( the questions , the questions we will recieve:(:) But most tds announce toptables in swiss and survivor and when u read td announcements or at some point scroll back to that announcement u will know how u are doing current. Not always accurate because adjusts for unfinisched baords are not counted for causing some players to be playing to high( those for example letting time run out after beeing set and gettting A- instead of wurse) and some are playing not high enough(u can fugure it out) BBO TD FRIENDS

hi maybe not bad idea, dont know how it can be done but then ppl woud stop discusions when they see/read something is in the rules and they are supposed to know them.

I try hard, Claus, but I can't look at "our societies" as a model for the World. Erkson hi, didnt see any suggesting about "our societies" beeing model for the world , this started as a thread/poll wether or not stop a thing not liked by others , so its all about allowance and tolerating other things that are not hurting others in any way. A demand for support for deleting something that some dont like. So after every post in whatever area we shoud ask in a poll wheter or not something has to be deleted when its stupid/non bridgerelated/opinion not chared by majority ?????? Im not suggesting free speech, i think smarter then me man or woman shoud decide what is harmfull,rasist and some other criteraes as well but i think when nobody is harmed just let it be, thats all Marc

Again with that ! I am totally fed up. freedom of speech... human rights... are no more than mind constructions imagined in Europe at a moment of History. Maybe one day they will be considered like other deliriums which passed away. Many cultures live very well without them. Freedom of speech is for me like a pouring faucet that somebody forgot to close. Erkson. hi wondering why u are so expert in telling what is a "delirium", maybe u drunk to much , dont know :) .Maybe some day ppl that are "fed-up" will come to senses and stop fighting wars over freeedom of speech,oil,religion,bridgeplay&useless story threads B) But we were talking here about an innocent "story thread" where nobody was harmed, and what was very easy to not read if u dont want too. Why edit or stop something that as all things in life reaches his end naturally, this asking opnion for doing a supported by others "euthanasia" is i believe not needed and inpropiate . I even dont like the halfediting on trpltrbls replie, thats showing dislike for something and therefore doing a not-professionel job, maybe warn yourself for it Ben since nobody else can(u proven to do much better then that in the past, nothing personnal Ben but just the way i see it , sorry no offence ment by it) Marc p.S Claus , u see miracles do happen, we finaly at least not disagree on a issue.Not getting in the huma right movement but u make as far as im concerned a couple of good points

hi, its beyond me , really is.I love to drive fast cars yet im not driving formula one, why? first they wont let me(not fast enough) second if they let me i wont enter why? im not fast enough. I really dont get why some woud like to play something that they are incapeble of(for whatever reason) and this time and time again. There is nothing more to it and its very selfabsoberd to ask +200 ppl to wait several minutes every round for a couple of slowplayers.No solution this suggestion of "stands in"(wont find any to stand in and tourneys still have same problems), we just spend tomany times on subbing every tourney (always the same names over and over) We want to focuss on delibrately slowplayers (when they are down), alertissues, chaeting , just on bridge nothing more nothing less. We agree with gerardo that its everybodys own rensposiblity to inform td when they beeen damaged (= calling in time), so no adjust for slowplay after roundchange, call td in time and we adjust on the spot, obligated writing in the calldirector box woud help, some use it to explain prob, to many dont use this feauture. Agreed with 3aisi that diffrent punishment for diffrent offences We dont see it as a punisching when someone is barred, its simply software giving you realitycheck(incapeble of finisching , then we say dont start and so avoid problems for others) whole other ballgame is the intentionel disconnects after scoring bad. We still see redbl games causing a lot of unfinisched baords (covennient slowplay when they down, alias chaeting)and after adjusting too many of these players still close bbo, so scoring bad still causes more then usual red dots:(. We think after a barr of 2/3/4 it might be time to make the barring longer or in xtreem cases permanent BBO TD FRIENDS

hi, its in some way outthere aldough not software supported , have to do it yourself, check upon late tables with tournament status(u actually see the # of tables still in play) when they are down to 5 or less in a section u see who is still playing(number of table) Think we do it like that, when we come to manageble # numbers to djust we try to adjust and move. Problem with doing this with software means that late tables move when 90% is done, so that 10% is playing unaware when they move, major complaints are heading tds direction , maybe after a while some will understand this but we at least woud need a %clock on each table or so , showing them when they are about to move. BBO TDS FRIENDS

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hi, i guess u can close /delete it or whateever, i only dont understand ppl complaining bout it?????? Why read it, its diffrent in other topics where im almost obligated to read some members replies who to say the least are not on my my favourites writers , so no why to filter them out Others parts of the forum not suitable for me( italian forum /expert forum) i do not read. Maybe a suggestion for the "complainers", do not go to story thread, do not read upon it, DO NOT GO THERE TO WRITE B) :) :) Was fun for those who liked it, unfortunaly we saw some sabotaging :P attempts :D . Maybe its time to start something completely new and unseen before, lets say a six word story thread :D We happy to make inquirys regulary storythread number of posts count to know whats populair Sorry Partner Well Done Opss

hi, u were/are wondering for tourneys for the bad connected, i guess "unclocked" events are for all, its kinda very easy it seems. 1. U read tourneyinfo/format/rules 2.U register for tourneys when you . HAVE read rules . AGREE with rules . ARE ABLE to follow rules .WILLING to folow rules So when u see 8 min/ baord dont sign up plaese if your connection is lets say very poor and u cannot follow this pace. There is always a possiblity to ask uday to get td facilitys and do something for the poor connected if u feel they are not enough provided for( why not). We td adore tourneys where we coud focuss on bridgeissues instaed of subbing&dealing with slowplay in clocked events. BBO TD FRIENDS

hi, Created a teammatch today,good thing that the suggestion for sending out invitations to possible participating players is been added, dont know how long its already in the software , afraid i havent played any TM lately:( But its in there now and so stopp to the major annoiyence to alot of tds that were taken out of thier tourneys to find themselves playing in a TM. Havent heard a complaint for that some time now so im running late with this i guess, tried to read/find some comment when that change was taken but coudnt find anything on it:( marc

hi, Hope nobody misunderstands me with my yes/no.We very appreciative of and for subs but we believe that beeing more stricter so making sure players percentages of finisching events woud be more higher would eliminated the subs issues. When u only enter a tourney with staying finisching players and only a sub woud be needed as exception not as rule we woudnt be having this discussion. If we have to say yes to change rules i can only hope we DO NOT ALLOW barred players as a sub in tourneys(not sure if this is already the case). We are again suggesting higher those % of finisching events players need to reach to be able to keep playing tourneys to solve this problem. If a disconnected player gets subbed on exception and gets back in, i see no harm, but if this happens to often and we "help" them finisch every tourney we are not working properly WE hosted one time a tourney with 68 tables and we needed only 3 subs during 12 baords, isnt this how tourneys are suppose to run? We simply dont like this arteficial aide for terrible connection and we like to see that disconnects for "emergency" alias bad scores woud be barred more often and faster. Isnt 80% a fair goal, so this still allowes 2 out of 10 non-finischers. I know i for one that i only not finisched one tourney out of all tourneys i played, and only twice i ended up with a sub as partner. And if the majority off ppl on bbo wasnt like that hosting tourneys woud become impossible BBO TD FRIENDS

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hi, congrats ben, told u already in person that the new colour fitted you well. I think that BIL is the most usefull(i woud be happy to achive a small % of that with junior flight, wich is also supported from maureen very well) and best run private room on bbo and that u "fit " to one andother well, U really deserve eachother and good luck to u ben & BIL BBO TD FRIENDS

hi , just downloaded it, new feauture for td is SUPERB, kissing the ground u walk on :D , so easyyyy now to create mutiple tourneys instead of calculating +1440 for same time next day, great. P.s dont know is u send out notifications to some for testing new betaversions,if so u can send it to me also , im very often online, but sometimes miss the announcements on the forums, so any way to inform me sooner and for me to be able to help bbo better is with pleasure for me and hopefully will benefit all, let me know spwdo

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defenition of "friendly yellow": yellowcoated bbo member ,online ,not on be right back, not playing ,not occupied elsewhere(vugraph, talking to me he he :( , e.o ) Havent met a unfriendly yellow sofar (all i know are very friendly and helpfull) spwdo

hi in tourneys: ALLOW UNDO will leave tournament chat open for players&kibs if they are allowed, so u can reach a playing td( bad thing imho a single playing td, but its a free world) in teammatches u have couple of options 1. allow kib(then they can talk to table) 2.alllow kib silent (then they cant talk to table d`oh) 3. do not allow kib couple of personal remarks, if u want to reenter anywhere u off course are not going to that match/tourney and start looking at movies, if u do/done that and they sub u in, inform them and get out.Cant kib on anything u want to play in , not when u try to return or as a sub!!!major reason why we in our tourneys DO NOT allow ANY REPLACED player back in if kib chat is on , ask a kib to tell host that u are back. If kib chat is not on, ask a friendly yellow to pass message to host for you Mark a host as friend before entering teammatch/tourney, easier to find them, can always remove him after as friend with a click of a mouse. marc

I prefer to have A- on time rather than playing with a sub, particularly if my partner is a regular (and even if is not). I just want to play with my partner when/if is back. Some TDs just get a sub compulsorily, in that case I'd certainly want my partner back (which is not fair for the sub). Would my partner get a bar point then? And the sub? hi gerardo, off course that is your choice, if u say when td arrives , i prefer the A-, we no problem to adjust the baords for time/slowplay.we give u then a couple of baords A-, if after that time player still isnt back i think its time to sub either missing player or both players to not to many baords passed where opps cant play , afterall opps enter the tourney to play , and not for receiving a load of A+ marc

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hi, something not correct/inperfect (cant find corect word,trying to say good effort but there is stil a whole in the defence) . It means that someone playing and not ending five out of five tourneys in six days will be not barred. Dont know how/if u can change that too maybe look at every 10 tourneys someone entered and not finisching XX% he gets a bann, 6 tourneys in six days maens actually playing and brakiing rules every day before a barr is taking place spwdo

hi, We in our tourneys replace players unwillingly to play with a sub, had a star today(btw no name in his profile) , constant nagging against his subpartner, so i offred him a choice, either continui in a decent way or be replaced himself. I coud never replace a sub, we use tds as temporary subs if needed in special occasions for short time.We never sub outside the table, so we are well aware when a player is rebooting or returning . In swiss/unclocked u can wait in survivor they go out and are not counted for disconnect. I understand the demands for a private club to favour the return of thier members but i do not see any advantage for open tourneys. Overall i think the stricter we are for unfinisching( lower the % that is allowed), the lesser subs we are going to need, in all fairness i think 60% finisching what u started is not enough(shoud be at least 3 out of 4), this means still 4 out of 10 events u entered u didnt finisch and the the cuts in survivor are not included there. further i think that sending the # of baords to play togheter with a invitation to subs woud be helpfull. So my vote is yes/no .If a sub is subbed out from td it coud be ok(only in case of allowing original player back, all other reasons to be subed out are not good ones) , so maybe give subs diffrent % , allowing them some more room to manouver in spwdo

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hi, asnwering ben, all unfinisched events are added up, u will see most tourneys nowadays NOT replacing subs for original partner. Couple of reasons for this 1.Not fair to the sub helpings us out 2.often replaced players are kibitzing on the table when they want back in 3.often a connection of a replaced player will be same problem in future rounds 4.new software scans every unfinisched event so we believe replaced players cannot reenter a tourney once they are replaced with someone else. your second question, dont know if that woud count or not as finisch/unfinisched, doesnt apply to tourneys hosted from the majority of tds i know spwdo