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I think it would be great if, PRIOR to a game’s start time, the director could add a robot pair when it is known that there are an odd number of pairs registered. Thanks!

Are free non-ACBL tournaments still restricted to starting in the mornings?

Thanks. So initially, one table will see two sitout seats, and then, when I do the robot substitution, that table will see robots taking the place of the sitouts, and the first hand will be dealt?

Can one substitute a pair of robots for a sit-out round in a free tournament? How exactly?

Great. How exactly does the director add robots to fill out the half table?

Can someone from BBO please weigh in on this? If I have, say, 13 pairs, 6 1/2 tables, and the director can't fill the table, will there be a sit-out round for every pair, or just some pairs, and will everyone play the same hands?

Same problem. Clearing the cache doesn't fix the problem. This is on a MacBook with Safari.

Additional info - I'm getting the same behavior right now - 9:23 PM central time. Prior to clicking the Casual option, the number of players online is 11,763, and several of my friends are listed. I click on the Casual option, my friends disappear, and the number of people is 2,940.

Additional info - I logged out and logged back in, and had my friends do likewise. Same result. Then I tried a different browser - Edge (my first try was in Chrome), same result. This is on a Windows 10 box, btw. Then I asked on of my friends to start the table. They got the same behavior.

Today I ran into a problem I haven't seen previously at BBO. When I logged in at around 2 PM central time, the number of people playing was around 42K. I clicked on the People tab and made sure that the three friends of mine that I wanted to invite to my table were online, i.e. listed in the Friends list. They were. When I clicked on the Casual option, immediately my friends disappeared from the Friends list, and the number of People playing, displayed above the People list dropped down to 12K. When I hit the back button, the friends showed up again in the list, and the number of people playing reverted to 42K. I was not able to start a table and invite them - the site displayed the error message that the people were not online.

Often, when kibitzing, one would like to be seated when a seat becomes available. When a non-kibitzing player leaves the table, usually another player who has clicked the "Take me to the first seat available" option will be given priority over a kibitzer, so the "Sit" label that would appear in the vacated seat will not appear, because of the speed at which the external player is seated. I would suggest that the menu within the table includes a "Sit when available" option, and that this option would only appear in the kibitzer's interface.

Excellent resource, thanks!! I tried adding a dealer specification to one of your hand specs and got an error message. Where in the code would I add this?: dealer (south)

I'm also having trouble with Constraint Sets, in Chrome and Edge. I created this Constraint Set via the interface (intended to generate 1 NT opening bid hands): ((clubs(south) >= 2 && clubs(south) <= 5 && diamonds(south) >= 2 && diamonds(south) <= 5 && hearts(south) >= 2 && hearts(south) <= 5 && spades(south) >= 2 && spades(south) <= 5 && hcp(south) >= 15 && hcp(south) <= 17 )) When I save and redeal I get an "Error Generating Deal" message.

Thanks!

Did BBO lift the restriction on free tournaments starting between 1 and 5 PM?