An introduction to team games on BBO

By uday
Wednesday, June 25, 2003

BBO now supports team-games. 

Any user with the latest version of the software ( http://www.bridgebase.com/latest ) can setup and run a team game.  Scoring can be either IMPs or BAM (Board-a-match).

How does a team game  work?

Eight players agree to play a team game. These players organize themselves into two teams, each containing four players.

One of the eight players,  we'll call this person the host -  creates a team game.  A team game will start up one or two minutes after creation, and the 8 players are swept into their seats at gametime.  When the specfied number of boards are played at each table, that table is closed. When both tables have closed, the match is scored. 

Players can see the results in a few ways:

1. Enter the tourney, click TOURNAMENT RESULTS for a summary.
2. Enter the tourney, click MOVIE for a board by board listing with IMPs/MPs for each board
3. Use http://www.bridgebase.com/myhands/ to see the "travellers"

Spectators are restricted to using Tournament Results and http://www.bridgebase.com/myhands/

 

Creating a team game

To create a team game, clicking the TOURNAMENTS button in the lobby, then click CREATE TEAM MATCH. 

A screen will pop up. Only the 8 player names are required, but it is probably a good thing to enter the team names and match description as well.

You can select any  reasonable number of boards - the minimum is 3.

The system will allow about 10 minutes per board. If time runs out while the match is still being played, the system will close the tables, assigning Averages

I suggest setting the director to the name of the person who is hosting the game and one person from the other team.  You can specify two directors like this;

director1~director2     (notice the ~ separating the two names)

You cannot change  a team game once you have created it.  However you can close it and recreate it.

Closing, substituting, adjusting

Once the tourney has been created, you can enter it. When you do so, you will notice that the green TABLE button (to the left of the bottom toolbar) is lit up.

Click this to control the tourney. From here, you can delete the tournament, replace a player, or adjust a score.

Common problems

1. if a  player gets  stuck, or gets disconnected and does not return, press the director button. The director will be notified and can come investigate. If the director is playing, he won't be able to leave his seat. However, he can still substitute a player from his seat.  If you setup two directors, one at each table, you'll be fine
2. Use chat-to-tourney to communicate with the other table if you only have one director
3. If all else fails, msg a support volunteer (a yellow player)
4. If you decide to abandon the tournament, please have a host or director close it on the way out

 

Bugs &  limitations

1. UNDOs are not allowed. Your settings are ignored. We will fix this one of these days and then your UNDO preferences will be used
2. Chat-to-tourney is enabled for all players

 

 

 

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