carlo

You use the term 'leaderboard' where I used 'tournament result' - but it seems we're referring to the same :) The leaderboards used to be stored in the publicly accessible archive for quite some time: up to 2 or even 3 months, before disappearing into the limelight of publicly inaccessible archives. I was under the impression this was not a burden on the main BBO servers, for a number of reasons: - judging by the very slow access, the server on which the archive resides is not a main server - storage requirements are unlikely to be a problem for small files like these - the archive may be publicly accessible, but still: one has to be interested in it and to know where to find it :) Over the past 6 weeks I've been travelling, only to find upon my return I no longer have access to files I'd like to have a look at. Please note the situation with regard to the leaderboard files is fundamentally different from the situation with regard to hand records: one can always find hand records later via the BridgeBrowser system, but the leaderboards are gone forever as soon as they've been transferred to publicly inaccessible archives. Hopefully this last point is the good reason you're asking for? And in case it's not, here's an even better one: getting access to older leaderboards would make me very happy :)

Sorry barmar, I think you mis-understood the question :) I wasn't referring to hand records but to lin files with results of tournaments. To give you an idea of the difference in magnitude, here are some numbers based on a 12-board tourney with 80 pairs: - 12 files for travellers, each file containing 40 scores with links to the appropriate hand record file and approx 20K in size - 480 files for hand records, each file up to .5K in size. Compared to this detailed information, the overall tournament result is peanuts: the single lin file containing the overall result is less than 4K in size.

Having just returned from holiday I settled down for one of my favorite pastimes: scanning through archives with results of tournaments. No luck, though :-(( The archives (which used to go back in time several months) now are restricted to a few days only. I'm not sure if this restriction is intentional or the unfortunate result of a crash or something like that. I'd guess the former: the 'large' archives require very little storage and, though invaluable for statistical purposes, are unlikely to be polled very often. Please, would it be possible to restore the tournament results archives to their former state?