Team Matches

[DenisO]

Under Team matches all I see is current matches in play and some completed matches. I can't find future matches e.g. I believe there is one tomorrow between the OZ team and Ireland. I'm using V501 - could there be a filter I've set incorrectly? I have looked under Options but don't see anything relevant. Help appreciated :P

 

Denis

[boris3161]

I'm not sure it is possible to create team matches for some time in the future. Mostly one creates a team match and it starts immediately all the participants have confirmed. Keep watching for your OZ/Ireland match :P

[inquiry]

Boris is correct, team matches begin almost immediately after they are created (the last of the 8 players accept). It isn't truly immediately, there is a delay which I think is 2 minutes (it might be 1 min). During that short period of time, the host can, if he like, upload predealt hands (but has to be quick to do so).

[mrdct]

There is virtually no delay whatsoever between when the 8th player accepts and when the match starts. The "2 minute" count down is more for when that match requests expires and automatically gets cancelled.

 

With there being no delay between when the 8th player accepts and when the match starts, if you want to upload predealt hands (as I do for some of the Oz-One matches to have more comparisons of the boards for discussion and anaysis) you need to tell one play to DO NOTHING with his match invitation until you tell him to.

 

A quick word on hand data files for upload. They need to be LIN and have one hand per board. Be careful with using vugraph files as they usually have two copies of each board (o1, c1, o2, c2, etc.). Easy to manually fix in Notepad.

 

Personally, I would prefer it if teams matches had the same facility as tournaments to specify when it is going to start.

 

Finally, tonight's Oz-One vs. Ireland match on BBO is probably going to start about 15 minutes late (20:15 Sydney time 09:15 London).