All results are provisional, but we pronounce Phil (Phil Clayton) winner of the 2019 Fall NABC Robot Individual. Phil is a long time BBOer, an excellent player with many real life bridge achievements and a respected poster in the BBO Forums. Very well done!
Second place went to chewylime (Liam King), and ulpian (Christopher Monsour) popped up in third with 68.96% over the 72 boards. Flight B winner is jacob04, young Jacob Freeman, of Toronto.
Let’s find out what happened on Day 3. Zack Grossack (germs345) won the final session with a whooping 77.17%, the highest score in all three days. Chewylime managed “only” 65.67% on Day 3, which pushed him in 2nd overall. Day 1 leader, rvickery, finished in 96th place on Day 3, and 4th overall.
Phil put up a consistent ~70% performance in all three days, with 69.83%, 70.82% and 70.00% for his final 70.22% overall score and a convincing win.
How about previous NABC winners? fuzzyquack finished 132nd with 60.45%, ashdown4, the only repeat winner so far finished with a very honorable 5th overall 67.27%, jonottawa in 32nd (63.92%) and defending champion, taydog, scored 58.48%.
The NABC Robot Individual officially kicks off the NABC. Many of the players are headed to San Francisco this week. Good luck to all those going to San Francisco and hope everyone enjoyed this NABC Robot Individual.
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15 responses to “Phil wins the 2019 Fall NABC Robot Individual”
Congratulations to Phil. That highest lowest score record will be hard to beat.
wow. congrats phil
what is my score for each day? Thanks
Much of the robot bidding qualifies as insane. Too many instances to discuss, but one where a normal auction caused me to bid 3nt, and for the hell of it the robot bid 4 nt with nothing extra. How about reprograming a pass
Amen, Anonymous! I ran into this same situation nearly 70% of the time, which made for a very frustrating event. The redeeming factor was after losing by a single trick, the original bid was correct….
I totally agree. I tried the practice round and I opened 1 club and the robot with 7 hearts failed to bid a weak 2 jump bid. We had 10 hearts together and three hearts made easily. Needless to say I was down in 1 club. Not wasting my money on this tournament.
Robots don’t play 2H as weak there (1c – (p) – 2H). 2H would have shown a strong hand in robot’s system.
Congrats!
You have to make this fairer to be worth the money spent. 72 boards and the robots are insane on 50% of them. Tons of effort for a sliver of a masterpoint. Do better.
Congratulations to Phil.
And the bots and I have an understanding: I won’t gripe about them and they won’t gripe abut me.
I agree with kenberg. The bots are by no means perfect, but neither am I. And they’re better than some of the partners I’ve played with over the years.
where can I see the list of all the players in the Robot individual and where they finished?
swkantor: Look at your day 3 results and click on “overall.”
mike04 I played all three days only got results for day 1 why/
@mike04 you should be able to see your result in History > Recent Tournaments. Here’s a link to your result:
https://tinyurl.com/vq7ypyr