[barmar]

The schedule of ACBL tournaments on BBO at http://doc.bridgebas.../schedule.shtml says which ones are indy vs pair and which are speedball. But it doesn't distinguish between IMP Pairs and Matchpoints.

[barmar]

So can anyone tell me what the schedule is for IMP Pairs vs. Matchpoints, or who to contact? I play in a weekly tourney on OKbridge, and we'd like to switch to BBO, but I need to know the schedule so we can make our plans.

[uday]

Sorry

The person to contact is jacki@ or acbl@bridgebase.com

There are basically two schedules


SPEEDBALLS:
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The speedballs run every hour on the hour

The first starts at 08:00 Eastern ( IMPS )
the next is at 09:00 (MP )
the next is at 10:00 (IMPS)
the next is at 11:00 (MPS)

etc. they simply alternate between formats
The last is at 1AM eastern

SLOWBALLS ( er - pairs )

These start at 10:55 ( IMPs)
then 12:55 ( MP ) "1PM"
14:55 ( IMP ) "3 PM"
16:55 ( MP ) "5 PM"
18:30 ( IMPs) 630 PM
20:00 ( MP ) 8PM
22:15 ( IMP 10:15 PM
23:55 (MP) "midnight"
02:00 (IMP) "2am"


Note the odd start times. We moved them up by 5 mins recently. Some slowballs weren't getting off the ground, and we figured this would give people time to move to the speedball if the slowball stalled out w/insufficient entries.

[barmar]

Thanks. The speedballs are 7 minutes/board, right? We're used to OKbridge's pace, which is about 6 min/board, although they delay the round change until 75% of the tables are finished, so I don't think we should have much trouble keeping up.

[uday]

The speedballs use 4.5 mins a board.

The slowballs use 7 mins a board.


The speedballs start at xx:00 and end at xx:56 or so. The slowball schedule is less regular.