[mr1303]

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I think it was a good idea not to expose the U-20s to a vugraph audience, but I don't think it's a good idea to tell everyone that this will just be a walkover for England, and that the rest of the teams are just there to serve as cannon fodder.

This would appear to explain a lot. I did make one reference to this at the start of the competition, as an introduction to the tournament, explaining that England would be very strong favourites, and that the other teams weren't as strong. Naturally I said this to explain the situation to the vugraph audience who's knowledge of junior bridge in the British Isles may not have been as strong as mine. Perhaps in hindsight this was a mistake, but it had the best of intentions behind it.

[david_c]

mr1303, on Feb 22 2006, 12:17 AM, said:

This would appear to explain a lot. I did make one reference to this at the start of the competition, as an introduction to the tournament, explaining that England would be very strong favourites, and that the other teams weren't as strong.

Well, yes ... if you'd said "England are strong favourites" I don't think you'd have got any complaints. But you didn't quite put it like that but never mind.

I watched nearly all of the vugraph from the Junior Camrose and thought it was excellent. The commentators all did a great job of keeping their commentary at the right level. It was much better than the Lady Milne, where I agree with Roger that some of the remarks were not appropriate. This was not a problem last weekend.

So, well done to everyone, particularly Alan with it being his first event - I certainly hope we see him again.

[mrdct]

ewj, on Feb 21 2006, 02:36 PM, said:

Incidently, where can we see either the commentary/archives of the Junior Camrose?

The auto-archived version on the BBO website doesn't quite work properly as it intermingles commentary from other matches. The best way to get the commentary is from the c:/bridge base online/ folder on the machine of someone who was watching the show. In that folder is a text document called username_chat.txt which contains that BBO user's full chat log, so provided they have enabled "log chat during vugraph" the commentary will be there together with any private chat that took place at the same time.

I've been asking for it for ages, but I'll renew by software change request that each time a board is redealt (i.e. advance to the next board) a system generated message appear in the chat along the lines of "====Board o12". There would obviously be a potential revenue opportunity for BBO to attach a sponsor's tag like "Board o12 is brought to you by American Express", etc.

Notwithstanding the risk of there being some inappropriate comments within the chat log, I think that there is some potential benefit in seeing what comments have been made about your actions by expert commentators. I recall one instance when I was on vugraph and missed a vul game through not jumping into an auction and I was quite interested to see what alternative courses of action the commentators were proposing.