Sections in tourneys

[aljorge]

Hi there,

 

I'm doing a web site with results from two tourneys on BBO, importing results from the lin-files into excel. However, one of the tourneys sometimes gives the result in 4 (and maybe 6, not sure) sections, which means that I have to edit the tourney manually.

 

The person that creates the tourney has no idea on why this happens, and I cannot see it either in the tourney options. Could you please tell me how to avoid it?

 

(the tourneys are all Imps, sometimes unclocked, sometimes swiss)

 

Rgds Allan

[hotShot]

I don't think that the TD has any influence on that. It a tourney gets over a specific size, it is divided into sections. This makes sense for several reasons.

Some of these are bridge related (e.g. you play a larger percentage of pairs in your section, so the in section result is more realistic) others are computer performance reasons. Lets assume that 100 tables are in the same section and the last table finishes, a lot of data that has to be send to 400 clients at the same time. This is impossible so the first table will have more time to play than the table who is seated last.

[aljorge]

I thought of that, Hotshot - but on the other hand, it is divided into sections with fewer tables that others which are not, eg.:

 

http://www.jorgensen.es/bbo/caribe3.lin - 62 tables, undivided

 

and

 

http://www.jorgensen.es/bbo/castilla7.lin - 60 tables, 4 sections

 

Rgds Allan

[Mr. Dodgy]

just a quick guess - the swiss are sectioned, the unclocked are not (it would be counterproductive to have sections in unclocked)

[aljorge]

I have seen several swiss unsectioned too, up to 80-90 tables, so it does not seem to be the problem either.......