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So you're saying this happens automatically for every tournament and I as director do not have to do anything special to get it to happen? I agree the director should go back and check things, it's just nice to get things started automatically (in particular when there were very few tricks left in the play).

I have played in some clocked tournaments which seem to get a very quick (within seconds) score adjustment when a board does not complete. Usually the adjusted score is very accurate and I can't imagine the director has time to do this manually in that time. Is there an option for this to happen in some non-manual way?

I have played in some clocked tournaments where say the last board of a round is not completed so and average is assigned to both sides, but then within a few seconds I see a message such as "Board 8 has been adjusted to 3NT +1". Since it happens quicker than the director could have handled it, is there some automatic adjustment going on here? And how would I turn on such adjustment when I run a clocked tournament?

The extra "directors" you add, do they have to be registered as directors at BBO or can they be any BBO member? If they have to be registered as directors, is BBO allowing new directors to be registered at this time? So if you have multiple directors, does only one of them need to be present when the tournament starts and it does not have to be the host who created the tournament?

We have a small group and I believe I am the only one in the group with the ability to create free tournaments. Sometimes I am unable to play in a particular tournament. Is it possible to create a tournament and have one of the other players run it? Does that person have to have any special privileges?

What is the quickest way for a playing director to see all the incomplete Boards at the end of a clocked free tournament?

Would still like to understand how the system decides who to schedule next in an unclocked tournament. As mentioned previously, I have not seen any repeats when we have 4 tables, and there are times when people have to wait 15 minutes. For example 3 rounds in, the 4 pairs A,B,C,D have all played each other and E,F,G,H are still playing, the system will always wait (no matter how long) for one of E,F,G or H to finish rather than have A,B,C, or D repeat. This is good, as we would rather wait and avoid playing the same pair twice. The problem is that the above logic does not seem to hold with 5 or more tables.

We finished a small tournament today #39871 (Mar 2), and everything seemed to go fine and we even got the result summary page when the tournament ended. But seem unable to get the full results and hand records, travellers, etc. Could someone explain?

OK next time we have 5 or more tables (which sadly is not very often) I will give clocked a try.

In my original post on this topic I said in my experience with unclocked movements with Rounds = TotalPairs - 1, I had not seen anyone play the same pair twice. But that experience was with 3 or 4 tables. I have since seen that with 5 or more tables, you can indeed play the same pair more than once. Is there a reason it works well with 4 tables but not with 5? Does the system generally try to avoid playing the same pair more than once, but revert to replaying under some conditions? If so, what are those conditions?

Yes, I believe that was the tournament. As I recall, we started with 3-1/2 tables but I was able to sub the pair that didn't get in for the sitout. On a different topic, are these logs that you mention something that any director can view?

How does one know whether one has the right to run howell movements?

On a small tournament (4 tables) I had set up +allavail+ but still when the tournament started one pre-registered pair did not get in (I personallly don't know what their connection status was at the start time). Is there some situation where +allavail+ should not work?

This was a free tournament, but maybe they don't check for that.

A player in my tournament today had paid for a robot as a partner but then his regular partner (i.e., wife) came home and he wanted me to sub her in but the substitution never worked. Is that by design?