steve23

Hi - I recently directed Swiss Teams on BBO and was exceedingly disappointed to discover that the +break'nn'+ parameter does not function as you might hope or expect. Somewhat bizarrely, all it does is add 'nn' minutes to the clock time thus extending the length of playing time much to the confusion of the director, initially, and many of the players throughout. We were playing 10 board matches with 7 minutes a board and wanted a 5 minute break before the next match; what actually happens is BBO allocated 75 minutes (10B x 7M + 5M) to the first match then promptly started the second match, and so on. Scores become available for the first match just as the second match starts. Handling the lunch time break was a whole order of magnitude more ridiculous with no cumulative score or rank being available throughout the lunch time break. Whether BBO can resolve these (and other) very real practical issues with the Swiss Teams format remains to be seen - short of a major design rethink, I very much doubt it.

Hi - We are about to hold the ABF Zonals in cape Town (May 6-11). We will have two matches (4 tables) on BBO Vugraph. The BBO Operators will sometimes have to handle a claim by a player. The current interface suggests "I claim all of the remaining tricks" and allows you to decrease/increase using LESS/MORE controls. It would be a lot easier if the interface simply asked for confirmation of the total number of tricks made (e.g. 10 in the case of say 4S making) rather than the balance of tricks being claimed.