Putting the Babich to Bed in 2018

By midnight Friday we had 50 clubs

reported to the X-Clubs Results page. As at noon Saturday we were still awaiting results from two clubs but had a complete wrap by 3pm. There were five fewer clubs than last year but with 986 pairs participating only a little short of the 2017 record of 2018 pairs.

This year's experiment of presenting Richard Solomon's commentary on-line in the Pianola environment has suggested better ways of achieving this immediate purpose. Because of the huge amount of processing Pianola has to do the upload of 900+ pairs at midnight took over 40 minutes. Apologies if this caused some inconvenience to viewers keen to use this new facility while we tried to do three smaller updates on the night. Early in the night we could have put up a small cross-add of pre-prepared dummy results and left it there for people to view the commentaries until the first cut was published on X-Clubs around midnight. At that time we could go for a Pianola view of those results. And another one when all results came through the following day. Then activate the automatic email to registered users of this free facility for a final run when the corrections period was closed off. We'll do it that way next year!