bluff10 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 It appears to me, and clearly to OP, that 8-board robot dupes get 30 minutes (3.75 minutes per board), not 60 minutes (7.5 per). What are we missing?barmar, what does 'Clocked Barometer" mean in the description of the tournament? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 When a tournament is "clocked", it means that the round clock is enforced strictly -- if the clock runs out while you're in the middle of a board, it's cancelled, averages are assigned to both pairs, and they move to the next round (but if there's a TD, they'll usually adjust to the result that looks likely). In an unclocked tourney, players can take as long as they like, and they move to the next round when all the boards are finished (they're paired up with other pairs that finished around the same time). In the case of robot tournaments, the entire game is considered a single round. Barometer means that you can see your running score during the tournament. In human tournaments this just includes the boards from previous rounds, in robot tournaments it includes all boards you've finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluff10 Posted February 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 It appears to me, and clearly to OP, that 8-board robot dupes get 30 minutes (3.75 minutes per board), not 60 minutes (7.5 per). What are we missing?barmar, what does 'Clocked Barometer' mean? I just got timed out again %$#%&@ on #1555 just as I was pushing the Claim button on the last hand. Very annoying, especially because the robots 'thinking' causes me delays. The sooner you get a 'seconds' counter the better. I assume you can't 'see' that people are almost finished, so if that is the case you should automatically give a least 5 seconds grace period. Would help (others) if the standard instructions about playing when the robot is declarer also mentioned the Clock and the Claim button. I know it has helped me a lot to know the clock is there, just wish it had seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluff10 Posted February 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 It appears to me, and clearly to OP, that 8-board robot dupes get 30 minutes (3.75 minutes per board), not 60 minutes (7.5 per). What are we missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 bluff10, did you forget to type something in reply to the message that you quoted? I already answered BBradley62 earlier, saying that I made a mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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