As of Wednesday, June 3rd, we’re adding a new type of tournament to the BBO schedule:
BBO’s Open Pairs Tournaments welcome all bridge players longing for a good game and eager to meet like minded friends.
Directed by world class directors, with strict no rudeness rules, these tournaments are perfect even for the most demanding pairs.
Tournament specifics
- 18 boards
- 6 minutes per board
- Matchpoints
- Entry fee: 1 BB$
- You can register with a robot
- Awards: BBO Points
- Conditions of Contest
Who can play?
All welcome!
How can I play?
Click on “Competitive” => “BBO Points tournaments” and look for “Open Pairs” hosted by BBO (there’s a Search box at the top of the list).
When Can I play?
Every day, every hour from 9am to 10pm Central European Time.
Warning: all tournaments will be listed and open for registration 2 hours before start time
Tips&Tricks
- Comments or suggestions are of course welcome, write to us and tell us about it at support@bridgebase.com
- Want to know what are the other tournaments offered by BBO? Just click here.
- You are new to BBO and you need some help, you can find useful links here and a welcome guide here.
Comments
15 responses to “New BBO Tournaments: Open Pairs”
Turn off chat except for directors during ENTIRE game. ! Period!
HUM systems and Brown Sticker — no idea what you mean.
You don’t play them, don’t worry about it 🙂
The definitions are available on the WBF site if you want the grungy details, but paraphrasing:
HUM: Forcing pass systems, systems with 1-level openings that could be decent 7-counts or weaker, systems where 1-level openings are bid on both long and short suits (for example, 1S is 0-2 or 5+ spades, but not 3 or 4).
Brown Sticker conventions: basically, preempts that don’t show a specific suit (with Multi 2D as a historical exception). 2S showing a good 3C *or* 3D preempt, for instance.
These are systems and conventions that basically blank your system, and require extensive pre-defence, and BBO doesn’t want you to have to play against it for 2 or 3 boards.
Maybe having a newcomer game will help people who are slow
There is a newcomer game too.
Are these robot games or do you need a partner?
Please stratify.
doit-on jouer avec un robot ou avec un partenaire ?
AS I said before why do they have room for another BBO tournament, while all of the Hosts of the Free tournaments are still restricted to only 80 pairs. Most of us have been BBO supporter right from the start and we host nice Free tournaments and people keep asking us can you add more players ? My answer is Ask BBO< because they will not allow us to have more. Please consider us and let us have more players.
Do you need a partner?
thank you
thank you let me play I need a partner
robot advanced
robot advanced
d oit-on jouer avec un robot ou avec un partenaire ?
doit-on jouer avec un robot ou avec un partenaire ?