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Name With-Held Asks ...

Submitted by sitemaster on Sat, 13/11/2021 - 07:19

Clicking into your name will be part of a larger publication to be made when the final few come through.

The scaling down - or up - is what simultaneous pairs is all about. When club results - say 7 tables - are scored across a much bigger field .. we have 350 tables so far ... they become much more objective. Club results can be "out" by +/-10% over 24 boards when compared with the scored-across result of a larger field. The range, which you can find by clicking on the Difference heading, is currently +9.95 to -9.67 ... both from Thames who had six tables last night. You need about 60 tables before you get results with an average deviation of +/-0.5% when compared to the scored-across result in a really huge field. This is the whole point with X-Clubs - 40% of NZ Clubs are now playing the same boards at the same times in ten different time slots a week. Sometimes we have over 500 pairs competing. When will your club be ready to join in the fun?

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 8:02 AM Name With-held wrote:

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Wanaka WINS!!

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 12/11/2021 - 20:57

10:55PM Friday
The results have been flowing in very smoothly since 9:45 and 70 minutes later we have all but nine clubs to come. Top runners are Vivian Sexton and Maureen Russ of Kerikeri. Vivian and Maureen are rather good at this, having won the Babich last year.

11:30
Forty heats published. Still five clubs to come - Alexandra, Gisborne (keying frantically still), Hastings, Queenstown, and Wanaka (promised first thing tomorrow).

11:45
Queenstown arrived after manual input

11:55 - pulling the pin with 41 heats published. Good night all.

9:10AM Saturday
Alexandra and Gisbourne arrive - just Hastings and Wanaka vying for the Wayne Benefield Wooden Spoon Award (Wayne holds the record at 2pm Sunday from 2015)

9:35
Hastings arrives. Just the last to come from Wanaka. Reportedly highly chuffed at some measure of success this year.

10:10 .. we have a prospectively final result!! Twelve hours after starting the scoring .. pretty good as these things go. Still hoping for two hours. Maybe next year.

The window for scoring corrections with Richard Solomon closes in two hours at midday.

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THE BABICH COMES ROUND AGAIN ...

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 12/11/2021 - 15:08

... although in almost certain-to-be reduced form tonight. We have 45 heats involved, five of which are being played on the RealBridge platform. RealBridge has taken the bridge world by storm in just over a year and certainly appears to have a role in the future of our game. It's something you can play on a device which might well make bridge, or minibridge at least, attractive to the younger set.

Richard Solomon's commentary, which has always appeared in booklet form, will be posted on the NZ Bridge site after 10:30 tonight .. something for you to read while you wait nervously for the first cut of results. In previous years we've managed 80% of the results in 20% of the time but you never know .. maybe tonight we'll have it all wrapped up by 11:30pm (yeah, right!). Tragically there have always be one or two clubs' results we haven't managed to get before noon the next day. Anna Kalma will no doubt be posting progress reports on social media and this page will alert you to posting updates as soon as they take place. Best presentation is on the Wide View tab above.

Enjoy your game everyone!

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The Babich NZ-Wide Simultaneous Pairs 2020

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 30/10/2020 - 09:21

Welcome to the Bulletin Board if you don't visit this site very often - or even if you do. The scoring for the 2020 Babich commenced soon after 10:00pm. Our first cut of 43 out of 57 clubs was published at 11pm. 661 pairs were reported. The leaders were Vivienne Sexton and Maureen Russ on a whopping 72-something per cent. At 11:20 we were missing just four clubs. Our second cut of 53 clubs netted 819 players with Vivienne and Maureen still undisturbed. Royle Epsom and Taihape came through at 1am so we ran another cut with 848 pairs and 55 of 57 clubs in. All 57 clubs had filed by 10:15am Saturday. An interim final was posted at 10:20.

The final official results are subject to Richard Solomon's confirmation upon expiration of the period for texting him with any scoring corrections (he's playing in the Zelda Morris).

The Wayne Benefield Award for Slowest Club went to Wanaka who had trouble with the scoring. Auckland came a close second by, we suspect, sending their file to the wrong email address. Your scoring team (powered by Bob Fearn's Compass software, two beers and a bottle of Babich pinot gris) of Bob in Seattle, Jan Spaans, Anna Kalma, and Mike Neels in Cambridge is looking forward to next year already.

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Vil Gravis on Weak Twos and Transfers

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 20/12/2019 - 09:13

So much for taking a break over Christmas! The man can't sleep without a pen in his hand. Vil is favouring us with his thoughts on Weak Twos and Transfers in a new series of articles. This blog will be updated as he sends more articles. For the present we have:

If you wish to receive these articles via direct email when they're hot off the press just let Vil (villyn@xtra.co.nz) know and he'll add you to his mailing list.

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We have a Wrap at 1:30PM. Results FINAL at 5pm.

Submitted by sitemaster on Sat, 02/11/2019 - 11:36

Yep - all 57 clubs are in after 14 hours. Golden Bay's six tables takes us to 1012 pairs for this year's event. Trish Stevens and Ruth Lewis of Rotorua held on to top spot while Richard Solomon did some in-depth scrutineering. The full set of results is NOW PUBLISHED AND WILL BE DECLARED FINAL AT 5PM TODAY (Saturday 2nd Nov). Please advise Richard Solomon (Richardharoldsolomon@gmail.com) of any scoring corrections before then.

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Update at 10:30AM

Submitted by sitemaster on Sat, 02/11/2019 - 07:54

The X-Clubs results site is now working. We are posting just the Overall ladder for now - Overall and club sections containing full drill-down capability will follow. The ladder you see is sortable by clicking on any green column header. We have 55 of 57 clubs in totalling 982 pairs - just waiting for Marlborough and Golden Bay who had problems in getting a result out on the night.

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Update at 2AM

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 22:01

We had 50 of 56 club results - 870 pairs. We hadn't heard from Golden Bay, Marlborough, Marton, Oamaru, Queenstown or Wellington. The website server in Sydney is undergoing some attention to upload the XML. A temporary result is uploaded to the Cambridge website.

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How to See Your BABICH Results

Submitted by sitemaster on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 11:24

Publishing soon after maybe 30 of the 57 results that we expect come in, the team at X-Clubs will be constantly updating the ladder as we work. As the evening goes on we would expect to have about 50 clubs ready to publish around midnight .. maybe ALL of them this year. Who knows? 2019 could be the first year when we don't have to chase a few people up on their Saturday.

To see your results click on the Wide View tab above and either go direct to your club or search for your name using CTRL-F (hold down CTRL and push the F key) in the Ladder or the Overall items. The Ladder is sortable by clicking on any green column header while you can drill down in the Overall and the club Section items. Take advantage of the Replay and Analyse feature powered by Bridge Solver On Line (BSOL)when you're looking at the display that lists what everyone did on any particular hand.