As of Wednesday, June 3rd, we’re adding a new type of tournament to the BBO schedule:
BBO’s Speedball Swiss Tournaments are fast paced Swiss games. If you manage to finish with over 55% you win 1.5 BB$.
Fast, furious, with BB$ prizes — if you have one hour to kill, no better way to practice fast decision making and keep the adrenaline up.
Tournament specifics
- 12 boards
- 4.5 minutes per board
- Matchpoints
- Entry fee: 1 BB$
- Swiss movement
- You can register with a robot
- Awards: BBO Points
- 1.5 BB$ prize to all players who finish with a score of 55% or higher.
- Conditions of Contest
Who can play?
Everyone welcome.
How can I play?
Click on “Competitive” => “BBO Points tournaments” and look for BBO’s “Speedball Swiss” (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
16 responses to “New BBO Tournaments: Speedball Swiss Pairs!”
need a full team of four?
I believe it is a pair’s game with a swiss movement meaning that winners play winners etc.
Why not make it a pairs event.You will get double entry fee as well.
It is pairs. Pair tourney, Swiss movement.
Why make it confusing? Is it pairs or is it teams? 2 player team or 4 player team?
It would be a lot more clear if the article and event were titled “Speedball Swiss Pairs”.
Actually, it would NOT. The title of the event itself is articulated poorly. Since it is MATCHPOINT scoring, not IMP scoring, it cannot be
a Swiss Pairs event (which is done by imps, versus a datum).
please try to figure out a way to make opponents play in tempo in speedballs of any kind….very frustrating to keep telling them to hurry
Swiss has nothing to do with IMPS or Matchpoints it just refers to the fact that the movement is based on facing a pair with a similar score.
Last I recall BBO Swiss movements did not stop replays (playing the same pair again and again)–something that has always seemed a fatal flaw to me. Anyone know whether this is still the case?
Please inform us: Is this a team of 4 game or a pair game
PAIRS. As noted many times already.
what time does it start? UK time
Not for me thx
Why not swiss team match tournament,It was great
How come this is allowed on the app but not the bbo 55 percent rebates?