Crawley107

Thanks!

I can’t see how add a co-TD to a Team Match

Does a non playing team match host need to stay logged in to BBO during the match?

Why can’t BBO duplicate the functionality of other Bridge scoring systems and allow TD’s to assign a “not played” score to a board?

If I’ve understood this post correctly, I can leave sit outs in place for a BBO clocked pairs tournament, with an odd number of pairs, using either a Mitchell or Howell movement. I am unclear about what the TD will need to do, playing two board rounds. Presumably, cards for the the first board will be dealt at the sit out table at the beginning of each round. When the round clock times out, the first board will be terminated as incomplete, and the second board won’t be started. Will the TD be asked to provide a score for both boards, or just the first, or neither? Assuming the TD assigns average scores to incomplete and unplayed boards, will the tournament results show the pair Sit Out and Sit Out as scoring 50% on all boards, and hence 50% as a final result?

In England, robots used as sit out substitutes in EBU BBO Virtual Club Tournaments earn EBU Masterpoints and receive EBU National Grading Scheme grades based on their performance. The BBO robots used as substitutes have an EBU NGS grade of 55 - 57%, this being the result they achieve when playing in a nationally average field. Attendees at my local club have an average NGS of between 45 and 47%, so BBO robots are expected to, and do, regularly achieve more than 60%, putting them in the top 3 places and earning Masterpoints that would otherwise be awarded to human players.

I want to run a teaching session where a number of tables will play prepared hands. Is it possible to set up a BBO tournament with only one clocked round (no movement)? The results would be meaningless, but that doesn’t matter.

Reading the above thread, if I choose not to replace a sit out pair, I would expect the tournament results to show a pair ‘sit out and sit out’ with a score of 50%. Is that the case? This might be more acceptable to club members than consistently seeing ‘robot and robot’ placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd, thereby earning points that would otherwise have gone to real players.

Since BBO split the Casual and Competitive servers, and Apple rolled out iOS 13.4.1 for iPads, I’ve been unable to use my iPad for BBO. I have framing problems with both Safari and Chrome, as well as problems receiving or issuing invitations to join tables. I always make sure that after logging on I move to the Casual server. Edge on Windows 10 works fine.

BBO is becoming pretty much unusable for us in the UK. We are continually losing connections on all platforms, and cannot log back in. The new setup with a separate Casual server does not help because you have first to login to the main server to get to the Casual server. BBO advice for UK users to play Bridge only between 11pm and 9am is not practical.