It’s a weird time for everything and everyone, but Bridge Base and ACBL have stepped up in a major way. They must be working around the clock to release all new gadgets and events rolling out daily.
Katherine wrote about some of the Humans Only offerings on BBO. For those of us who enjoy the robots, today is the first ever Support Your Club Daylong Tournament. It is special in 3 ways:
1.) You earn ACBL Black Points. Normally you can only get these by playing at an ACBL sanctioned club game, and only when it is nor a special STaC week.
2.) Part of the fee goes to supporting bridge clubs, who need us now more than ever. In fact, it goes to YOUR club. They will look at which clubs you’ve played at recently, and donate based on your playing history.
3.) The format is 18 boards, just like the human-only Support Your Club events. It is a Daylong robot event, meaning you can take a break as long as you finish by midnight (or is it 1am?). Otherwise, the rules are similar to the Online Individual NABC – best hand, human declare, matchpoints, and you won’t get the same boards as any of your friends.
Partaking in the first Support Your Club Daylong
Come give it a shot. It’s only $5, and you will be a part of the first ACBL SYC Black Point Daylong. You have until the rest of today, but there will probably be one daily for quite some time if you miss this one.
It should take less time than an 18-board speedball, because 3/4 of the table plays very quickly and you never have to wait for another table to finish. You are your own bottleneck (and feel free to think as long as you want on the tricky boards).
Review The GIB Convention Card
Despite having played over 3000 bot boards in my life, I learned something new today — the bot can pass you in this auction. Looking at the provisional scores, I wasn’t alone. My fault, I should have gone over the card with my robot partner.
Have Fun While Supporting Your Club!
As always, there is more luck than usual when you have deal pools and robots. Sometimes you fall flat with no chance of recovery. Sometimes you eagerly await the final results! Today things are looking alright. But regardless of the results, it’s always an amazingly therapeutic hour to take our minds off the craziness of life; a bargain for $5 bucks.
Do all robots play 2 over 1?