dealing machines, Swiss team events

[sfi]

Yes. The traditional method was for there to be two sections with the top two teams playing against each other on table 1 of each section and so on down the field. Everyone moved each match.

 

Cool. Both methods were used in Australian tournaments until recently - it seems to have totally died out about 3 years ago. I haven't played much elsewhere lately so I didn't realise we were making another small attempt to change the world.

[blackshoe]

Hm. Say you have 2N teams, so N matches per segment. Does each match play the same pre-duplicated boards? If you have 2N+1 teams, you'll need a 3-way, with I think two sets of boards, right?

[gordontd]

Hm. Say you have 2N teams, so N matches per segment. Does each match play the same pre-duplicated boards? If you have 2N+1 teams, you'll need a 3-way, with I think two sets of boards, right?

All matches play the same boards except that 2/3 of the three-way need to have an extra unique half-set of boards. So if you are playing 7 x 8-board matches, the three-way will start with boards 1-8 & 57-60 (you can re-use the 57-60 as long as it's in the same session and no hand records have yet been issued.)

[gordontd]

We are looking at approximately 60 teams for Swiss events at our Sectionals.

 

Is the "Australian movement" a software update on the bridge mates? How does this work?

It's a scoring program thing rather than a Bridgemate thing. In EBUScore SwissTeamsScorer it's an option.