Cosey

Hi all, I first want to thanks all "Yellows" for their great job in organizing tourneys, and all BBO users who do the same. The program allow us to create them in a very user-friendly way and Fred & Uday must be thx for that. But...as more and more people are able to create tourneys, it appears that more and more tourneys are created. Which is good AND bad as the same time. I'm not going to explain why it's good, but some things might be improved. 1- the fact that lots of tourneys exist lower the interest of winning or loosing since it lost an "exceptionnal" aspect . The more tourneys, the more common it becomes and so there is less interest in winning..."just a game among others" a bit like a normal game in main club. Or we are players....we need glory !! A general ranking, taking into account results of every tourney -or maybe only official ones driven by "yellows"- could be a nice way to keep some interest into them. Each player individually would receive a score. Like if there are 50 pairs, the first 25 will receive points. 50 for both winners and 1 for both 25th....no points for the rest of them. (or neg pts ?) The more pairs the more important the tourney will be... 2- Since tourneys are becoming more and more common, it appears that some consider them as just another option of BBO and play in tourneys as they play in main bridge club. Which mean that they feel free to leave anytime.....and that's why so many sub are needed in every tourney. It slows down tourneys, annoys directors, perturbs the results, etc... It would be nice to find a way to refrain players from leaving. For instance if it would be possible to keep trace of players' departure you might be able to create a "tourney-credit". Each player will have 3 credits to start, and each time one leave before end, he looses 1 credit, and each time he finishes one, he wins one credit. To enter a tourney one need a positive number of credits.... Maybe some will enter tourney more carefully. We all know that it's possible to have a connection problem or an emergency, but we need to find a way to limit them. I hope it's clear & helpfull ....just my 2 cents Cosey

Congrats Uday, u found a soultion that seems to be THE right one !!

Another solution would be to disable chat between P, during a T. Only chat with opps would be allowed. That would for sure accelerate the game.... Cosey

Hi All, I first would like to congrats BBO's team and Directors for their great work ! Then here is a problem that I presumed we have all noticed. In almost all the tourneys I played, I faced the time limit issue. Each time, due to some slow opps, or because subs were needed, we were unable to finish one or more hands. I do believe that 15 min for 2 boards is the right amount of time. Most players must be able to complete the hands with 15 min. I do not want to change that, nor to slow down tourneys. It's great to know before starting how long it will be. The issue is how can we react against opps that are obviously trying to run out of time, in order to escape a bad score, or who are facing some connections issues...and how to do that without disturbing the director when he may be occupied ?? My suggestion would be to add another button, like the "call director" to indicate that we think we will have a time issue problem. Then, at the end of the time limit, if indeed a pair has been unable to complete a hand, the director will be notified about it and will be able to correct the score before the end of the tourney, if he has time to look at the unfisnished hand through the traveller. If he can't he will be able to do it after the end. It means that the time must be registered too... I don't know wether this should work...any other idea ? Cosey