shyams Posted September 19, 2020 Report Share Posted September 19, 2020 Yes, please. How do I sign up?You did. When you voted yes on this poll :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilG007 Posted September 19, 2020 Report Share Posted September 19, 2020 I'm guessing this tourney will be run on the same format as chess tournaments . i.e. a "Swiss System" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbridge Posted September 19, 2020 Report Share Posted September 19, 2020 I'm guessing this tourney will be run on the same format as chess tournaments . i.e. a "Swiss System" It will be hard to run a Swiss system as in chess since players are rank by ratings prior to start of tourney. This is to avoid having strong players paired against each other in the early rounds. No rating systems exist here. Also, Swiss systems is not a knockout. All participants keeps playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted September 19, 2020 Report Share Posted September 19, 2020 The thing is to remember that you're playing against the other humans, not against the robots. Yes but the robot opponents and partner are ludicrous, and it does not interest me how other people manage with them because it is not really bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted September 19, 2020 Report Share Posted September 19, 2020 I'm guessing this tourney will be run on the same format as chess tournaments . i.e. a "Swiss System"Since it's advertised as a knockout, why would you guess it would be Swiss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblesann Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 I would be interested in playing with my partner BBO name RomaFerrie ACBL # 5481503 My name is Dawn Suart bubblesann ACBL # 8483604 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Yes but the robot opponents and partner are ludicrous, and it does not interest me how other people manage with them because it is not really bridge. Like some of us BBO regulars, GIB is a bit past its sell-by-date. It has started to act quite strangely. It's still better than most humans. More recent robots like WBridge5 and Jack are much better. Vampyr is likely to be proved right soon: If DeepMind takes an interest in Bridge. they will probably take the game to a new super-human level (as they already have done, with Go, Chess and StarCraft) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 I would be interested in playing with my partner BBO name RomaFerrie ACBL # 5481503 My name is Dawn Suart bubblesann ACBL # 8483604 This is not a pair game. It's an indy with robots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Old Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Like some of us BBO regulars, GIB is a bit past its sell-by-date. It has started to act quite strangely. It's still better than most humans. More recent robots like WBridge5 and Jack are much better. Vampyr is likely to be proved right soon: If DeepMind takes an interest in Bridge. they will probably take the game to a new super-human level (as they already have done, with Go, Chess and StarCraft) I'm with you. Robots don't get tired and don't miscount. Bidding can't ever be perfect (a 50% game will always fail 50% of the time), and declarer play will always be limited by necessary percentage plays, but if the robots ever learn to signal on defense.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 Registrations closed. The Tournament is posted in COMPETITIVE -> Free Tournaments. Look for the BBO Forums Challenge KO. You can click to play it, everyone who voted is pre-registered. It will be very quick for this first attempt: Day 1 - Monday. Qualifiers. Field gets reduced to 8Day 2 - Tuesday. Quarterfinals.Day 3 - Wednesday. Semifinals.Day 4. Tursday. Finals. 12 boards, IMPs, not best hand. You must play each day (unless you get eliminated ofc). You have 24 hours to complete each round (midnight to midnight US Eastern Time) Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyams Posted September 21, 2020 Report Share Posted September 21, 2020 I have played my first match. Suggestion: After I completed my set, a pop-up window (like those for daylong tournaments) got automatically generated. Given that these are 1-on-1 matches, perhaps the software should be configured so that the pop-up gets generated only after the final results. Curiosity: You wrote "Day 1 - Monday. Qualifiers. Field gets reduced to 8". How does one round of a tournament reduce 63 participants to 8? I thought this was a heads-up style set up where I will be paired randomly with one of the other 62 players and our scores will be compared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerriman Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 The first deadline has passed, but I received no results. The second round appears to be open to all 63 participants again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1 Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Registrations closed. The Tournament is posted in COMPETITIVE -> Free Tournaments. Look for the BBO Forums Challenge KO. You can click to play it, everyone who voted is pre-registered. It will be very quick for this first attempt: Day 1 - Monday. Qualifiers. Field gets reduced to 8Day 2 - Tuesday. Quarterfinals.Day 3 - Wednesday. Semifinals.Day 4. Tursday. Finals. 12 boards, IMPs, not best hand. You must play each day (unless you get eliminated ofc). You have 24 hours to complete each round (midnight to midnight US Eastern Time) Good luck!The first deadline has passed, but I received no results. The second round appears to be open to all 63 participants again. I didn't see Diana's announcement. I seem to have missed the 1st round. Hence, reasonably enough, BBO won't let me play today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 The first deadline has passed, but I received no results. The second round appears to be open to all 63 participants again.I've now played two lots with no results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pio_magic Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Didn't see any yesterday (but may have missed it). Started playing the challenge today but am convinced I did not finish all boards. Wanted to continue later. The challenge is still there, still green, but when I open it it claims "round completed"... ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbridge Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 Just want to let organizer know that I have a message in my mailbox regarding this event. However, when I click on to open message, comes back with error indicating tournament not found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgrice Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 I too have played the first (last) two days with no sign of results. No way I did well enough on day 1 to make the top 8. Interface shows I'm still registered for the tournament (yellow) even after I played the boards. It won't let me play again. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted September 22, 2020 Report Share Posted September 22, 2020 This is strange. It's advertised as a KO, but I don't know whom I am playing against. On day two, I see no results of day one. Just like Peter, I doubt I played well enough to qualify for day two under the mysterious secret hidden format allegedly going from 63 players to 8 players in a single KO round. Yet I am shown as enrolled for day two, with no further message anywhere. Are you guys sure this was ready for beta-testing? I am annoyed that I joined, to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiskundige Posted September 23, 2020 Report Share Posted September 23, 2020 EDIT: Registrations closed. The Tournament is posted in COMPETITIVE -> Free Tournaments. Look for the BBO Forums Challenge KO. You can click to play it, everyone who voted is pre-registered. It will be very quick for this first attempt: Day 1 - Monday. Qualifiers. Field gets reduced to 8Day 2 - Tuesday. Quarterfinals.Day 3 - Wednesday. Semifinals.Day 4. Tursday. Finals. Hi DianaWhere can I find the results of day 1 and day 2? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2020 A few updates on this test, sorry for the delay but lots of things going on with BBO this week! 1. The movement is not what I said it will be, sorry. Looks like the way elimination works is: Head to Head KOs, but also Everyone ranked by their score in an overall leaderboard. Top 8 move forward. So it's more like a "Daylong KO" than a pure challenge KO, sorry. I misunderstood the format. 2. There was a server crash that messed up the tourney. Pretty sure it is now corrupted. We'll try again after this one expires. Ah well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuba Posted September 23, 2020 Report Share Posted September 23, 2020 Good luck DianaTY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Old Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 That's what beta testing is about. Whether or not I should have been playing, I've been offered, and played, four rounds. I assume that these were advanced robots, because they played fairly well. Let us know when the next round of testing starts, I'll be happy to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pio_magic Posted September 25, 2020 Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 Pretty sure it is now corrupted.At least it claims daily that is has been started the day before and that I have completed all boards without me playing one ... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted September 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2020 At least it claims daily that is has been started the day before and that I have completed all boards without me playing one ... :) Yeah I asked one of our programmers to close it by hand today. For me too it played R1 correctly. I got eliminated (unfair, but such is life). Then from Day 3 it allowed me to play daily. So dunno... it's hard to tell when it's combined with a system crash. The scoring is also trying to cater to all 4 days I think, the numbers are very strange :) Feels like the old days playing JEC! We'll see what we can learn and try again. Meanwhile, congratulations to our experimental KO winners: 1st place: toast12nd place: mlbridge3rd place: Heart76 Thanks all for participating. Stay tuned :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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