Thank you for your patience while we worked on a solution for your free, private tournaments. We also want to thank you for the time and effort you put into organizing tournaments and bringing players together on BBO. We greatly appreciate your contribution to the BBO community.

You can now set up your free tournaments so that players with a Basic membership can join without using any of their daily free deals.

Your tournaments can have more than 6 boards. Basic members who join a tournament set up as described below can play the entire tournament, even if they have already used their daily free deals. The boards they play in your tournament will not count toward their daily limit.

How to set up your tournament

Please use the BFAD tournament type in your tournaments settings:

1. Click Create tournament.
2. Go to the Entries tab.
3. Enter BFAD in the Type field.
4. Once you have completed the Entries tab, fill in the rest of the tournament settings as you normally would.

Your Entries settings should look like the screenshot below:

Please restrict your tournaments

Free tournaments can fill up quickly. We recommend restricting your games so that the players you organize them for have a chance to register before all available seats are taken.

You can restrict your tournament by Friends, Country, Language, or use an Include list to specify which BBO usernames can register.

If you leave your tournament completely open, other BBO players may register and fill the available seats before your intended players can join.

Tournament setup guide

For additional help with tournament settings, you can refer to the Virtual Club Manager Manual.

Please note that for these free tournaments, your tournament Type is BFAD and there is no entry fee, so leave the Price field at zero. Some of the features specific to paid tournaments are also not available in free games.

If you have any trouble setting up your tournament, please contact us at tournaments@bridgebase.com.

Thank you again for organizing games on BBO and for everything you do for your players and the BBO community.

Note: If you received this message directly from BBO, your account has been granted permission to create BFAD tournaments. If this message or page was shared with you by someone else, these instructions will only work if BBO has separately enabled BFAD tournament access for your account.