WTF? 2S promised diamond support. I thought 4D said I wanted to play diamonds. And now 5D would be a cue bid???
Toby and I just played a 1hr flighted event on BBO. We got the top score and 0.82 seemed like a dismal award. Evidently our combined 19,000 masterpoints only put us in Flight B on Christmas evening!
That seems ridiculously low. Doesn’t a section top in flight B in a club game usually pay more than .82? How many flight B pairs were there?
As far as I can tell, we got 0.82 for 1st in a section of 17 pairs. The C flight paid the same!
But 1st overall in A was 2.40, I’ve always been in A in the past (with maybe 15,000 total points) and hit the overalls many times.
I tried looking at our club results, and it was very inconclusive. I look at several games of 13 or more tables, so that there were section awards NS and section awards EW. Always 1st in B in the section got over 1 point, but in the games I looked at I could never be sure why. Often the B section award at least qualified for an A section award, so I didn’t know whether the award was for the B result or A result. Also, since there were only 2 sections, the B winner each direction was almost always in B overalls (obviously, only 1 could be 1st overall in B, barring ties.) So no way I could tell whether there points were for the B section top or the B overall.
Still, there must be many clubs with demographics like ours, so if you played and got a B section top you would almost surely end up with more than 1 point for the day. At our club, the upper limit for B is almost always under 3000 points average, sometimes under 2000 average.
oirg wins the regular challenge with +17.50, by 14.50. I win the declare-only with 56.25%, by 1.56%.
I win the regular challenge with +9.16, by 6.74
First Mon-Wed each Month, so Jan 2025 is 6-8 (i.e., now)
I win the regular challenge with +20.50, by 1.50
NN wins the low-scoring regular challenge with +5.00, by 3.00
GRRR.
How can 2S here show 15+ HCP and 5+ spades? Wouldn’t I have overcalled 1S with that?
NN and I each bid 1S here, then after P-P-2C, we each rebid 2S, even though notes said it showed 5. (But notes said double then would show biddable clubs, so 2S seemed th best choice.)
I made 2S, for +5 when he was down 1, but I still lost the match by 15.
AA wins the regular challenge with +6.00, by 0.25
Toby and I defended 2NT down 3. He had a pretty chunky hand.
What would you bid after
1S P 1N forcing P 2C X ?
:swear: BBO Fest starts today, which means you must play today for the free Mini survivor or free Robot survivor. BBO sent no reminders before today. Would have been nice if I had known earlier, but I can still play those. Perhaps you can.
Country vs country (for 10 cents BBO) also starts today, but not necessary to play today. Just must play 32 boards by Wednesday.
Doesn’t work out well, but wouldn’t Redouble be normal?
procrastinator wins the regular challenge with +18.68, by 13.65
thekinz won the declare-only with a whopping score of 67.19% (margin of 10.94%).
I think I missed a couple to report. Anyone can report if they see the results.
thek won the declare-only again with another whopping score of 67.97%, a margin of over 15%. I had to double check this wasn’t the same tournament, but it’s back to back 67% scores and wins for thek! New challenge issued.
thek also won the regular challenge, with +18.50, by 7.25.
oi won the next declare-only with a score of 59.38%, by almost 8%. Will issue a new challenge later today.
