[harikannan]

I played the weekend survivor free tournament yesterday, 27.12.2025. Overall, I scored 56.68% and did not make the cut. The interesting part was the number of flat boards I was dealt in the set of eight.

Board 1: out of 87 (48+36+3), I shared top with 72.67%
Board 2: out of 110(79+27+4), I shared top with 64.22%
Board 3: out of 93 (1+89+3), only one managed an extra trick, I got shared 2nd with 51.09%
Board 4: out of 85 (66+14+5), I shared top with 61.31%
Board 5: out of 80, perfect flat board, all got 50.00%
Board 6: out of 83 (1+82), only one managed an extra trick, the rest shared 2nd with 49.39%
Board 7: out of 75 (3+64+8), a misdefence by East robot allowed 3 to score one extra trick. I shared 2nd with 53.38%
Board 8: out of 74 (72+2), I shared top with 51.37%

From the numbers shared by top/2nd on each of the 8 boards, this is the flattest set I have played on BBO.

Has any one encountered a duller one? Just curious.

[Huibertus]

I had the same feeling this weekend.

This is the ridiculous unjustness of playing different sets of boards than other contenders do in the same tournament. The more flat the boards are the more difficult it is to score. 57% on set of real flat boards could actually be a better performance than 75% on a wild set of boards. Yet the latter qualifies or ends up higher in the final.

I do know this is done in order to prevent cheating, but is simply is NOT how bridge tournaments should be organized.