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gerardo(12)-chuck11(12)-broze(13)-impfdich(13) and all others: Please plan finishing by Wednesday noon EST. Please follow the order in schedule while accepting/playing your games.

olegru-mkgnao-cherdano and all others: Please plan finishing by Wednesday noon EST. Please follow the order in schedule while accepting/playing your games.

spyrosm can explain it better - it is the official Swiss program. we decided to not give 12-0 to people for BYE.

http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/76580-challenge-event-8b-swiss-information-results/

LAST ROUND INFO POSTED BELOW -- Results after round 6 https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4oxsb6umve3t9z/Results_after_Round_6.pdf?dl=0 Round 7 https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6k8jfeoo9xhpw6/Round_7.pdf?dl=0 --- Rules: 1) This tournament is a modified-Swiss with 33 players. There will be 7 rounds. 2) The game format is 16 boards, non-best Hand, IMP with advanced robots. 3) You must follow the thread at least once in every 3 days. Post your game results immediately with the game link. 4) Games of the week will be announced here through updates (Check above for the first two matches). Each player will play 32 boards per week (except last week). Both matches of the week will be announced on Sunday morning/afternoon EST. There will be a single match announcement in the last week, with same announcement time. 5) You have to finish your weekly games before Saturday 11:59PM EST. 5) Unfinished match: 5-5 if both parties are responsible. If only one player is responsible, then 0-12 or 0-(Opp's effective average IMP vs. responsible player). 6) Players who fail to complete a single week will be automatically dropped. Without a legitimate reason, the player will be also banned for the next 3 tournaments.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3635e4ng979itm/Rounds_1_2.pdf?dl=0 First week assignment. Details in the new post for the tournament.

http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:1115215c.2a35.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1493179306&u=ovncylmz ovncylmz-toast1:75%-25%

Several comments: 1) Nobody suggested you to add everybody in your group as friends. Especially if you are scared of receiving so many automatic challenges, that is a very bad (I call it "bad" to keep it polite) idea, especially if you can play only 1 to 1.5 matches per day. 2) Follow the post more carefully. We give one game per day as the main suggestion - however it is only 10 boards and a lot of people went much faster. Some people already finished all games, some people wait for some slow players to complete etc. We did not change deadline or anything, you can take your time and make us suffer if you want, but yes it will be nice if you can play a faster pace. Please don't blame the system or others for something which is 100% under your responsibility (yes, if you auto-accept and cannot play the game and never communicate your opponent, it is fully your responsibility). 3) 2 match means 20 boards. If you really cannot play 20boards robot bridge (it is 16boards, our regular length + 4 boards) per day, you probably need to reconsider about playing our two-match per week event. 4) I had two people who I played and they obviously had an issue and could not play the game (one told me, one didn't), I happily reissued the challenges. This is a friendly tournament, unfortunately you guys are taking it as a world championship or something. You are a young kid, I am quite sure that if you see a challenge with a deadline in 20minutes, you can play 10-robot boards.

You played a horrible 3nt (+1 on no spade lead and diamond finesse on) and made a unmakeable 1nt to tie:P

Broze either did not accept or accepted (may be auto such as my case since we are friends), but did not play. I think he is going to be back tomorrow and start playing like 2 or 3 matches per day, I will discuss with him. Phil - broze game is 50-50 because it is empty:)

1) This is what I added to the first post: << WE DID NOT CHANGE THE DEADLINE OR ANYTHING, THE GAMES ARE ONLY 10 BOARDS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GO IN A FASTER SPEED THAN EXPECTED. SO TAKE THE MESSAGE ABOVE AS "IF YOU CAN DO PLAY FASTER, YOU CAN ACCEPT/SEND MORE MATCHES AND PLAY THEM EARLIER - MAYBE WE ALSO FINISH EARLIER". >> 2) 5 per week is for 16 boards speed. I wrote clearly in the post that the expected pace is one game per day because it is only 10 boards. 3) I know some people just wait because they read the schedule different, although schedule just offers you a systematic way to send your invites so that you don't get stuck with 10 invites while a less popular person doesn't get any invites. We basically want everybody to send invites to others and play as fast as they can. Note that in Group B, people already played an average of 10 matches (today is the 5th day). I believe that this Sunday is very doable - but if it doesn't work, we are not gonna kick anyone out. 4) If someone sends you a match, you don't have to accept if it is your scheduled opponent - if it is your scheduled opponent and if you cannot play, you can reach them and discuss your options. For example, crazy4hoop even accepted my challenge, I played but he didn't. I didn't make it a deal, because we just have fun here. 5) But I am aware that some people (I am not going to give any names in public) always goes slower than the pace - they are even late for their scheduled games. If they also let us wait for the last day, next time I may be much more strict on them. For example, broze has something that he mentioned here, so I am super fine with him playing only 2 games so far, but if you just intentionally make the event slower, that is not fair to anyone who just want to have fun.

That is perfectly fine, take your time, just fast play is appreciated - since we give you bunch of flexibility about your schedule. Copy paste from the first post: WE DID NOT CHANGE THE DEADLINE OR ANYTHING, THE GAMES ARE ONLY 10 BOARDS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE GO IN A FASTER SPEED THAN EXPECTED. SO TAKE THE MESSAGE ABOVE AS "IF YOU CAN DO PLAY FASTER, YOU CAN ACCEPT/SEND MORE MATCHES AND PLAY THEM EARLIER - MAYBE WE ALSO FINISH EARLIER".

http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:f0f6cc86.27ab.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492900509&u=ovncylmz vs. zzmiy: 65%-35% http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:d6ed790b.27ab.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492900465&u=ovncylmz vs. phil: 55%-45%

Even if we have one day per game, we must finish before May 7th -given a lot of people played around 8 matches, I am thinking of Sunday 30th or Monday 1st?

We mean the next Sunday? Does it sound impossible? Original time is following Thursday or Friday anyway?

phoenix - hijunny - wackojack: Let's go way faster than this please - so we can finish by next Sunday evening

ovncylmz-barmar: 5.5-4.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:1cdaacc6.27c7.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492912179&u=ovncylmz

Specific order is important if you receive too many invitations - you are supposed to accept and play them based on that order. Given a lot of people already played 8-10 (I actually played 16) matches and each match is 10-board, I think we can go to a pace of 15-board per day (3 matches per 2 days). After the weekend, I will make an announcement, but if you can play faster - it would be good.

IF YOU ARE IN THE SLOW END, PLEASE GET FASTER! WE PROBABLY CAN FINISH AT THE END OF NEXT WEEKEND

IF YOU ARE IN THE SLOW END, PLEASE GET FASTER! WE PROBABLY CAN FINISH AT THE END OF NEXT WEEKEND

ovncylmz-JJ_:4.5-5.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:ff52fa96.27ab.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492900533&u=ovncylmz

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-- Event post: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/76580-challenge-event-8b-swiss-information-results/ --

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ovncylmz-impfdich: 5.5-4.5 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:6052703f.26e5.11e7.b134.0cc47a39aeb4-1492815226&u=ovncylmz