cbergek

Well, I can't understand the value in playing it again, since you already know where the cards are. It's not like those teaching deals where if you have a two-way-finesse for a queen in a sidesuit the queen moves from east to west so that you always loose the finesse, because the whole idea is that you should endplay the opponents to find the queen for you. Then it'd be great to get to try again. But good to know that these tournaments don't count towards my TCR. Thanks!

I often forget when I last played the weekly free tournament (WFT). Therefore I sometimes elect to start it, but realizing quite soon that I've already played it. Perhaps it's not a big deal but thinking about the Tournament Completion Rate (TCR) I use to play it through anyhow. (Perhaps these tournaments don't count in that TCR statistic, but how do I know that??) It would be much easier if there were some kind of indication on the WFT button as to whether I've played it already. The WFT button could be red, or grey, indicating that you've already played it, and then resetting it to the usual colour when a new WTF is started on Fridays. (As a comparison: the Vugraph button changes colour whenever there is actually play going on.)

I've heard about a machine that both deals and reads the cards, and is meant to be placed on each table. When the deal is over you just put the cards in the machine (without shuffling them) and it reads the order all cards were played. Then it redeals the cards for the next deal. I haven't seen one of those machines in operation, but there is a nice clip on their website (http://bridge4people.com/. Also, I haven't heard if this is the solution they're planning to use, but if it's available I guess it would work. The only problem could be revokes, and perhaps claims, apart from getting all the players to put their cards in nicely...