Play in the Charleston New Year's Regional Online - January 4
Open to members of District 7 Be part of the excitement of the Charleston Online...
The ACBL Fall 2024 NABC Robot Individual continues with 2339 players competing for Red and Gold Masterpoints®, as well as the NABC title. Here are the preliminary results after Day 2:
Giovanni Salomone (ginobiloba) from Fossano, Italy, is still in the lead with a score of 71.49% and has earned 18.78 Masterpoints® so far. Joining him in the top three are Andrea Boldrini (mattopo) from Rome, Italy, at 69.86% and Robert Brady (BradyBot) from McLean, VA, close behind with 69.81%.
Meanwhile in Flight B, Erli Zhou (nerdpower9), Sunnyvale, CA, takes the lead with 69.46% score, and in Flight C, the first spot is still held by Hsin-I Wu (wallywu) from California with an overall score of 66.31%
The daily result from Day 2 was led by William Bleish (78jayhawk) with 73.30%. In second place, there is James Geist (HallOfChNp) with 73.11% and Mike Cappelletti (Cappjr) in third with 72.89%.
With one more day to go – there’s still time to move up the leaderboard, so good luck to everyone on Day 3! Stay tuned for the final results tomorrow. 😊
Not all players in the tournament play the same deals, and BBO employs additional security measures to prevent any form of collusion or cheating, including ensuring that players with any kind of potential connections do not share the same deals. Jumping to conclusions based on someone's nationality is not only unfair but also an inappropriate generalization.
Seems curious that there are exactly 2 Italians in the top 200 rankings (I stopped looking after that) but they are currently ranked 1 -2 . It prompted me to ponder how someone could cheat at this event if they wished. One idea that seemed straightforward involved engaging a helper ("a confederate") who could write down each hand and the partner's hand then send them on to their favored contestant. I understand there are variations in the hands played by different contestants but a contestant might use more than one confederate, and anyway this would confer a huge advantage even if it only helped on some or most hands. Comments?
I stopped playing in this event for this very reason, among others. The constant manipulation of the bots, the fact that people do not play the same hands so it's a total shot in the dark. Nothing more than a greedy money grab by the ACBL. They should be ashamed to run this event. Then again the ACBL has only cared about money for years now. Look no further than the outrageous membership costs.
I'm always concerned about that!
🙂 Italy's population is around 60 million fyi