aramesh_

Hi, When you are the table host you can remove a player for inactivity or rudeness. To do this click on the table button at the bottom left of the table. In the table option box you can see Remove a player at the bottom with the names of the four players. Click on the name of the player you want to remove and click on apply & close. You are done Ara

Latest jokes doing the circuit on the internet and I quote: New additions to Webster's dictionary. *Ponting: (n) (adj)* 1. A substance or entity or even a person of unquestionable integrity Usage: The judge was driven towards justice because he knew that the pontiff was a ponting. 2. An act of uncivilised behaviour. [Also, pontingness (n)] Usage : Sir Bonkers said, "Don u shouldn't try to bully me. I surely can fathom the pontingness in your eyes. *Bucknor: (n) (adj)* 1. Temporary blindness leading to missing out on the obvious. 2. To be at the wrong place at the wrong time. 3. Situations leading to grave judgemental errors. Usage: I feel bucknored by my boss; Life often throws a bucknor at you. *Benson: (n) (adj)* 1. Something that legitimises a severe bucknor. Usage: First they bucknored me and then they bensoned it! I am toast. ara

Try this link to repair your BBO Entry. http://online.bridgebase.com/doc/connect.php Good luck

I have installed VISTA Home Premium..Haven't faced any problems so far ara

I use VISTA Home premium also. Works fine for me :P

A player felt insulted when, in a tournament, I announced to the room in caps to hurry up as there were only 3 min left for the round. My understanding is that TDs use caps to catch the attention of players. Am i wrong? Is announcing in caps by TDs not to be encouraged. I would like to know for future guidance. aramesh_

Hobson's Choice was started by me and my friend JW_NL was my co TD for a while before he withdrew. I stopped HC in late August, not due to any bullying by another TD but because I was getting ready for my trip to US. In anycase jilly's case is bad for BBO and I wish the decision is reconsidered.

I always unregister offline pairs in my tourny manually 2 minutes before start,using the option available to the TDs. This way 2 or 3 places are made available for online pairs to register if the limit set by the TD has been reached. There is a more serious issue when a pair registers for a trny starting , say in 30 min. When both in a pair or even one of them finds a trny starting in 10 min has been set, (after they had registered for the one starting in 30 min) register there without cancelling their first registration. Such registered pairs in a trny who have started playing in a trny commencing earlier, cannot be removed by the TD, so far as I know. I would like to know if there is a way. The system deletes their registration when the later trny starts resulting in sitouts. Also denies an oppurtunity for online players again. A player or a pair of players registered for a trny should be prompted to cancel their registration if they want to register for an earlier trny which is not likely to end before the later trny in which they had registered. This problem does not arise if the two trnies where a pair registers do not overlap. The present option of unregistering offline pairs by TDs should stand.

Thanks rona for saying that the tournament I host is among the largest and more succesful ones at BBO. This is largely because of the excellent help I get from my friends Jan (jw_nl) and Pia (satto_dk) who are CO-TDs with me. If many players feel as you do, the purpose of hosting our tournament is truly served. Thanks once again. Ara

Hi Nice of you to say that I hope the spirit behind my post is clear and well intended. Ara

Hi The question of my behaviour in the presence or absence of the Td at the table doesn't arise at all here. A player logged in the invisible mode becomes visible once he is playing or is a kibitzer. So I can always know who is kibbing at my table and behave. Let me hasten to add that I always follow the rules set by the TD in a tournament to the letter and have never been pulled up for misdeamenor-TD present or not. My concern here is that if a TD is invisible, a player will find it difficult to send a private message to the TD in case of need for an urgent communication with the TD. Of course, he can always use the 'Call TD' button, but, some time can be lost by this method.

I find some TDs remain invisible during the tournament they are hosting. Is it fair to do that?

The intention was not to generalize. Some playing TDs do expect what is quoted above. Maybe I shud have said "some suchTDs"

I have hosted Hobson's Choice 141 times as on 11/12/2004 along with my friends, helping me. We have never played in our tournament because we feel the role of a TD is to see that the tournament runs properly, make adjustments if a board is unfinished and provide subs when a player is frozen or gets disconnected. But I find, of late, there are many tournaments where the TDs say :- no adjustments under any circumstances, find your own substitutes, playing TD/TDs so cannot come to the table, etc. Fine, it's their way of running trnies and I dont complain. But, such TDs, when they play in some other tournament, expect the TD to keep waiting for their call and appear at their table the moment they hit the call TD button. If not they make multiple calls. What they will not do in their tournaments, they expect from the TD of the tournament they play in. The Rules OF HC are clear. I have said that there shall be no multiple calls from the same table. If only the players will hit the button for Rules specific to the event before registering just once they will they will know what to expect. If they dont like my rules, let them not play. I have named my tournament "Hobson's Choice" which means according to the Oxford Dictionary, the choice of taking the thing offered or nothing. So the choice is the players'. Only players who are prepared to play following the rules we have set are most welcome. HC is not for those who will not.

Hi I am having version 3.8.8. In the create tournament window, i see only the option to allow dummy to kibitz partner. I dont see the option to block-opponents-hand-when-dummy. :blink: How can I exercise this options please