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How exactly would creating competitive game play be against any theory or goal? Maybe we should put little league baseball teams up against professionals.

Theoretically? I may be old school, but MSN gaming zone used to have bridge in its repertoire; it had 3 rooms I believe: Casual Play, Intermediate, & Expert. Something like that; it was great.

I agree, Usually the U.S. players are not that good... But the Turkies seem to be great at any skill level.

To create competitive - the 4 players should be at or about the same self-evaluated skill level (imo). So I check the competitive play box, which is a completely superfluous check box (didn't take long to figure that one out). And here's my typical findings: Novice, beginners, intermediate, advanced, & expert (so called) players meshed in one playground. This causes many problems: first, it's not competitive play if everyone at the table is of a different caliper which induces the phenomenon of the 'hot-seat': players jumping around until they find a comparable player. Why not create segregated rooms based on skill-level? MSN Gaming Zone had a great set-up; it's too bad they're not still around.

I click the preferences & select competitive play, but competitive play seems to be synonymous with collection of idgets. And who is the Vuegraph guy that's always butting into my game with garrulous commentary? I define him as enemy, but his text continues to be displayed across my message board w/ extraneous information.