Jim813

Novice and intermediate players would benefit from playing in the open tournaments so they can compare their actions to those in a wider field (that hopefully includes some stronger players), but it is difficult to find those open tournaments now. It would be easier to find tournaments that are open to everyone if BBO would mark those tournaments with "Open Pairs". More about that in the link below. https://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/82908-are-pairs-open-or-restricted/page__p__998212__fromsearch__1#entry998212

After the last hand of a tournament, I start doing something else. But sometime later, BBO does a pop up of the tournament results. That pop up interrupts whatever I am doing, and it forces me to close the pop up. It is easy to see tournament results in detail through My BBO, so the pop ups offer me no value. Is there a way now to stop the tournament results pop ups? If not, then BBO should offer options for the user to decide what he wants. BBO could offer to continue the pop ups, or to send a one line summary through chat instead of the pop ups, or to simply stop the pop ups.

It has become very difficult to see which pairs events are open to all, or restricted to only a few players. BBO could help by better identifying the type of each tournament. Pairs could be identified as Open Pairs for tournaments open to anyone, or left as pairs for restricted tournaments. If there are TCR restrictions, identify as Open Pairs TCR 80%+ for example. Sorting the tournament listings could be improved too. Clicking a heading tab (like Start or Type) does sort the listings, but the items in each appear to be in random order. It would be helpful if all the pairs tournaments could be also sorted in an order like starting time or alphabetically.