Tonyfrench

Is anyone else having issues downloading tourney info today?

Not up to 12 hours ago, it remains a serious PIA.

Cheers, as Jim says, think it’s worth waiting till it’s a little more robust.

I selected this option with a UK virtual club so it's certainly there. However I had no joy making it work, is there any guidance available yet, or due even does anyone know? There's no doubt in my mind that this will be welcome among many club players to add something of the social aspect back to the game.

I'm not certain about this so please check, but, I *think* table history is available up to 20 mins after the tourney. If so your point is still true thereafter of course.

I assume that the EBU (and other NBOs?) are comfortable with the new structure and believe it will migrate (force) club league teams to the EBU (NBO) team league/s. For my part I run a very small club league and charge a modest (VERY MODEST) amount per team to cover EBU fees, league scheduling, support and some directing and/or hosting. I don't want to hide this and am, in theory, of the opinion a small fee per match may be reasonable for BBO to levy for use of it's platform. However we play 8/10 board matches and the original fee suggested far far far exceeds the small revenue we recover and drawfs compensation for the resource use. The fee per table even exceeded that for a full club session, it has to be at least twice anything vaguely reasonable! As I said I am of the opinion BBO should be entitled to receive a fee for services it provides..... to commercial ventures for sure..... but profiteering and/or overcharging will kill the golden goose. People will not pay more than something is worth long term, people do not like to feel ripped off and there are options. I believe the elephant in the room is that some users may abuse and overuse free 'rights' for payments, considering we are concerned with a partnership game the word partnership doesn't seem to be fully understood by all concerned.

If it helps, and it won't very often, you can save the history to a local file while you can access it. But if you have a problem and need more time this is an option.

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I realise I may have not been clear or misunderstood the op. I can see a need for anonymous play, for vulnerable persons to play for example and as is mentioned above for newcomers to look around. I was really meaning ‘invisable’ log on. This has sinister potential and I’m not clear what the benefit of this option is. I occasionally check results or history on an iPhone, I find it really difficult to deal with incoming messages then so I have used the setting to log on to avoid that. But if it helped to cut down sinister opportunities i’d certainly be willing for the option to disappear.

Please forgive a somewhat stupid question. But why is there any need to be anonymous when logging into BBO? Assuming staff may need this feature, maybe I see that, but why the great unwashed masses need the facility escapes me. All it’s ever done is cause issues for me....