[D_H_D]

Rather than minutes per board, would a closer mimic of face-to-face play be gained by not allowing the final board of a round to be started if there is less than a (selectable) number of minutes left in the round?

It should be even possible to decide which pair used up most of the time, to decide on a 60/40, or 40/40, rather than a 50/50 award.

[gordontd]

D_H_D, on 2020-July-03, 07:36, said:

Rather than minutes per board, would a closer mimic of face-to-face play be gained by not allowing the final board of a round to be started if there is less than a (selectable) number of minutes left in the round?

The software does this, although the amount is not selectable.

D_H_D, on 2020-July-03, 07:36, said:

It should be even possible to decide which pair used up most of the time, to decide on a 60/40, or 40/40, rather than a 50/50 award.

It's possible to do this from the Table History. I created an Excel spreadsheet with macros that I use to extract the amount of time taken by each player and something like that is useful to quantify when players say that their opponents were the slow ones.

[pescetom]

gordontd, on 2020-July-03, 09:00, said:

It's possible to do this from the Table History. I created an Excel spreadsheet with macros that I use to extract the amount of time taken by each player and something like that is useful to quantify when players say that their opponents were the slow ones.

I didn't realise this information was available. How exactly does TD access the Table History? Can he do it during the tournament or only at the end?

I recently witnessed on vugraph a heated discussion in a BBO hosted tournament where West sustained that he had alerted and explained his call before North called and South (plus the commentators) said after. The poor TD was at a loss what to do. Could he have ascertained the truth in real time?

[gordontd]

pescetom, on 2020-July-03, 09:22, said:

I didn't realise this information was available. How exactly does TD access the Table History? Can he do it during the tournament or only at the end?

I recently witnessed on vugraph a heated discussion in a BBO hosted tournament where West sustained that he had alerted and explained his call before North called and South (plus the commentators) said after. The poor TD was at a loss what to do. Could he have ascertained the truth in real time?

It is available in real time, though it may be a feature of paid tournies rather than free ones. It's an option in the dropdown TD menu.

[pescetom]

gordontd, on 2020-July-03, 10:35, said:

It is available in real time, though it may be a feature of paid tournies rather than free ones. It's an option in the dropdown TD menu.

Thanks, I will look for it during next free tourney.