organizing a tournament

[MadMax]

I wonder how U admins organize tournaments. What do you have to do? Is there a lot of work during the tourney? I'm really interested in directing such tournament. There are still not many tourneys, I have lot of time and I'd gladly help to organize some. I'd appreciate if you gave me some info on the software you use for tournaments and if it's possible to give sb the ability to direct a tourney or if only the admins can do it. Please email me hrynix@poczta.onet.pl (the e-mail in my profile is wrong, so use this one). I just know you have lot of work and think i might be helpful.

Thx for any info

[uday]

There are two aspects to organizing a tourney given the current state of the software.

 

1) Setup. This is accomplished with a web page. Here, you specify how many boards, etc. are going to be involved.

 

The things you can specify are :

Title

Number of boards per round

Number of rounds

Minutes per board

List of directors

Start time

Maxmum number of signups

List of players to exlude (these players cannot signup for the tourney)

 

Eventually you press SAVE and the tourney pops up inside the BBO TOURNAMENT area.

 

2) Directing. A tourney can be setup with as many directors as needed.

There are 3 main things a director needs to worry about, at the moment

 

a) Find a substitute - using lobby chat - for a tourney player who is missing, or who is not responding.

A web page handles the actual substitution, but the director has to send out and receive the lobby chat messages.

 

:) Respond to Director calls. Each director call results in a little popup message box for the director that says "Player So-and-so wants a director at table So-and-so". The director goes to that table and figures out what is needed. Currently only yellow directors can chat privately with tourney players. Usually, this is a case of a player not responding or gone missing - and another subsitution

 

c) Advertise the tourney with lobby chat before the tourney and announce winners (or not!) after.

 

 

 

A director cannot alter the result on a board (we have a command under test to allow this).

A director cannot alter the time per round once a round has started.

 

Directors will also get a lot of calls accusing the opponents of being unethical. These need to be brushed off gently. Serious charges should be followed up w/an email to support@bridgebase.com, since we have the tools to examine each case more closely.

 

 

 

The bottom line is that directing is time consuming, but easy, if you restrict the number of tables. One director should be able to handle 40 registrants (20 tables) without any real stress. If the table count is more than 20, I know that I would want another director helping me (when multiple directors exists, each director gets half, or a third , or whatever, of the director calls).

 

 

If interested in running your own tournaments, let us know - email support@bridgebase.com

[inquiry]

Uday said above... "A director cannot alter the result on a board (we have a command under test to allow this)."

 

I am happy to report that the change a result thing worked at least once last night in a tournment successful. Here is what happened.... I was declearer, two tricks remaining. I have the highest SPADE and CLUB, and east who is out of both red suits is on the lead in notrump. I claim both tricks, as 1 min left. Opponents reject. Must be mistake. I claim again, reject again. Time runs out, and we bump to next table.

 

I call the director and report this. Some time later a little message box pops open on my screen informing me of the correction to the result with me obtaining the last two tricks as would be fair. I really like the box providing that information in a timely fashion. So, so far so good. It didn't seem to interrupt the flow of the game either.

 

Ben