Join us for the inaugural Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament, that starts on June 19, right here on BBO.
This event offers a unique chance to become the Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion and earn a trip to Marrakech for the World Championships, including flight and accommodation.
Bridge may not be an official discipline, but it is being showcased at the Olympics eSports Week in Singapore, and so will reach a broader audience than ever, bringing more people to the game.
Get set for an Olympic adventure from June 19-25. The tournament consists of a qualification phase, a rest day, then the finals. Mark your calendars and play your part in the Olympic Bridge story.
🗓 Qualification Phase (June 19-22)
🗓 Rest Day (June 23)
🗓 Final Round (June 24-25)
How to play
You can start playing at any time during the Qualification Phase. Qualification tournaments can be played for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight US Central time. Finals tournaments can be played for 48 hours, from midnight to midnight US Central time. To start playing, pick any Bridge Olympic eSport tournament, click on it, and then click on the ‘Register’ button. You can play at any time within that 24 hour period. You don’t have to play each tournament in one go – you can stop if you need to, and resume later.
This event offers a unique chance to become the Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion and earn a trip to Marrakech for the World Championships, including flight and accommodation.
Bridge may not be an official discipline, but it is being showcased at the Olympics eSports Week in Singapore, and so will reach a broader audience than ever, bringing more people to the game.
Get set for an Olympic adventure from June 19-25. The tournament consists of a qualification phase, a rest day, then the finals. Mark your calendars and play your part in the Olympic Bridge story.
🗓 Qualification Phase (June 19-22)
🗓 Rest Day (June 23)
🗓 Final Round (June 24-25)
How to play
You can start playing at any time during the Qualification Phase. Qualification tournaments can be played for 24 hours, from midnight to midnight US Central time. Finals tournaments can be played for 48 hours, from midnight to midnight US Central time. To start playing, pick any Bridge Olympic eSport tournament, click on it, and then click on the ‘Register’ button. You can play at any time within that 24 hour period. You don’t have to play each tournament in one go – you can stop if you need to, and resume later.
Qualification phase
The qualification phase runs from June 19 to June 22.
Play as many tournaments as you like over these four days, but remember, you need to play at least five. Your ticket to the final round depends on an average score of 56% from your best five tournaments.
More games mean more opportunities to reach this goal.
.Here's the short version:
📌 Individual tournaments, you play with 3 robots.
📌 Total of 40 games (10 per day) over the four days.
📌 Daylong style, each tournament consisting of 6 boards.
📌 The entry fee for each tournament is 0.50BB$.
📌 To be ranked you need to play at least 5 games.
📌 Score an average of 56% from your best 5 tournaments to move on to the Final Round.
Play as many tournaments as you like over these four days, but remember, you need to play at least five. Your ticket to the final round depends on an average score of 56% from your best five tournaments.
More games mean more opportunities to reach this goal.
.Here's the short version:
📌 Individual tournaments, you play with 3 robots.
📌 Total of 40 games (10 per day) over the four days.
📌 Daylong style, each tournament consisting of 6 boards.
📌 The entry fee for each tournament is 0.50BB$.
📌 To be ranked you need to play at least 5 games.
📌 Score an average of 56% from your best 5 tournaments to move on to the Final Round.
Leaderboards
Final Round
After a well deserved rest day on June 23, the finalists will compete on BBO over the weekend of June 24 & 25. There will be two days to play 8 tournaments, of which only the best 4 scores will count towards the final ranking.
📌 The finals are free to play but only open to those who qualify.
📌 8 tournaments of 8 boards.
📌 All tournaments are available for 48 hours.
📌 Your best 4 scores will count towards your final ranking.
📌 The finals are free to play but only open to those who qualify.
📌 8 tournaments of 8 boards.
📌 All tournaments are available for 48 hours.
📌 Your best 4 scores will count towards your final ranking.
Bridge Olympic eSports Week Finalists
Bridge Olympic eSports Week - Special event
Conditions of Contest
Event Format and Schedule
The Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament special event takes place on Bridge Base Online (BBO) from Monday, June 19, until Sunday, June 25, 2023.
The event consists of two phases: Qualifications, from June 19 until June 22, and Finals, from June 24 until June 25, 2023.
The qualification phase takes place from June 19 to June 22, 2023:
During this phase there will be a total of 40 qualifier tournaments available to play, with 10 qualification tournaments available every day.
📌 Each qualifier tournament spans one calendar day, from midnight to midnight US Central time.
📌 Each qualifier tournament is 6 boards long, played with robots, and scored in Matchpoints.
📌 Each qualifier tournament costs 0.50 BB$ to enter.
Players need a minimum of 5 Qualifier tournaments to be ranked in the qualification phase.
Once this threshold is reached, the best scoring 5 tournaments will be used to calculate each player's average score and determine the BBO Bridge Olympic eSports Week - Qualifications ranking.
Players need to score at least 56% to qualify for the Finals.
At the end of the qualification phase, players who have completed at least 5 qualifier tournaments, and have an average score of 56% or higher move forward to the Finals.
The Finals take place from Saturday June 24 to Sunday June 25, 2023:
📌 The finals consist of 8 tournaments with 8 boards that are available to play for 48 hours.
📌 The finals tournaments are free of charge and restricted to players who have qualified during the previous phase.
📌 The finals are played without running scores. Each tournament offers a provisional leaderboard, but the overall rankings will be available at the close of play, on Monday, June 26.
All tournaments in the Bridge Olympic eSports Week event are played with robots, duplicate style. The player sits South, with robots in the other three seats at the table.
📌 This is an individual event, you do not need a partner to participate.
📌 The player declares for their robot partner when their side wins the contract.
📌 Players can use either the BBO mobile app or the BBO website (https://www.bridgebase.com) to participate.
📌 Players' IP address will determine which country they represent. If a country doesn’t have at least 10 players, the players will represent the “Rest of World”.
Registration & Eligibility
There is no pre-registration required to participate in this event. At any time for the duration of the event, players can log in to BBO and click any of the available Bridge Olympic eSports Week tournaments to start playing immediately. Each tournament is available to play for 24 hours.
Entry fee is 0.50 BB$ for each Bridge Olympic eSports Week Qualifier Tournament. A minimum of 5 Bridge Olympic eSports Week Qualifier Tournaments is required to be ranked in the Bridge Olympic eSports Week qualification phase.
The Bridge Olympic eSports Week Finals are free and restricted to players who have qualified in the previous phase.
Registration is open to any BBO member in good standing.
Conventions & Robots
BBO robots play a modified Two-over-One system. System notes and a convention card are available at https://www.bridgebase.com/doc/gib_system_notes.php. The robots sometimes deviate from this system if simulations lead them to other conclusions.
The robot’s understanding of what a bid means can be seen by hovering over the highlighted bid. When it is a player’s turn to bid, the player can see what robots think a bid means before making the bid. If the bid is not highlighted, it means the robots have no special understanding or definition for that particular bid.
Security
This event uses deal pools. Not every player will play the same boards. Each board will be duplicated a limited number of times.
Players are expected to refrain from communication with anyone else about the boards they have played in a session until the conclusion of the session.
Players agree not to misrepresent themselves and to not enter the event with multiple aliases.
Following each phase, provisional winners are listed, subject to manual review by an expert panel. The confirmed winner list for each phase and the overall event will be released after review, and the decisions of the panel are final.
Master Point awards and titles
Ranked players are awarded both WBF Master Points and BBO points.
Players results are ranked overall and by country.
The overall winner is conferred the title of Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion
Each represented* country's winners are conferred the title of Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion
*At least 10 players are needed to represent a country in order to win a Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion title.
A player's country is determined based on their IP
Rewards
Prizes for international champions
1st: 200 BB$ + free entry to play in the 13th World Transnational Open Teams Championship, taking place at the Movenpick Mansour Eddahbi Palais des Congrès in Marrakech. The event runs from Monday, August 28, through Saturday, September 2. This prize includes return flights and a six night stay in a hotel.
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
Prizes for national champions
1st: 40 BB$
2nd: 30 BB$
3rd: 20 BB$
Miscellaneous
If there are insufficient entrants, the event will be cancelled and all card fees refunded. The decision whether to cancel the event is at BBO's sole discretion. Players will be notified about the event cancellation before event start date.
If there are severe technical issues on BBO’s part that result in a player’s inability to complete their minimum required number of tournaments (hence disqualifying them from the event), the player’s card fees will be refunded.
If there are minor technical issues on BBO’s part that impede but do not prohibit a player’s ability to complete a session, no refunds are given.
To prevent misunderstandings, players are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the BBO software and the mechanics of robot play on BBO prior to the event. Players are strongly encouraged to learn how to read robot’s alerts, how to claim properly, and how to customize the software to ensure their full comfort (card size, card type, chat font size, etc.) before the event begins.
BBO Rules of the Site apply.
Event Format and Schedule
The Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament special event takes place on Bridge Base Online (BBO) from Monday, June 19, until Sunday, June 25, 2023.
The event consists of two phases: Qualifications, from June 19 until June 22, and Finals, from June 24 until June 25, 2023.
The qualification phase takes place from June 19 to June 22, 2023:
During this phase there will be a total of 40 qualifier tournaments available to play, with 10 qualification tournaments available every day.
📌 Each qualifier tournament spans one calendar day, from midnight to midnight US Central time.
📌 Each qualifier tournament is 6 boards long, played with robots, and scored in Matchpoints.
📌 Each qualifier tournament costs 0.50 BB$ to enter.
Players need a minimum of 5 Qualifier tournaments to be ranked in the qualification phase.
Once this threshold is reached, the best scoring 5 tournaments will be used to calculate each player's average score and determine the BBO Bridge Olympic eSports Week - Qualifications ranking.
Players need to score at least 56% to qualify for the Finals.
At the end of the qualification phase, players who have completed at least 5 qualifier tournaments, and have an average score of 56% or higher move forward to the Finals.
The Finals take place from Saturday June 24 to Sunday June 25, 2023:
📌 The finals consist of 8 tournaments with 8 boards that are available to play for 48 hours.
📌 The finals tournaments are free of charge and restricted to players who have qualified during the previous phase.
📌 The finals are played without running scores. Each tournament offers a provisional leaderboard, but the overall rankings will be available at the close of play, on Monday, June 26.
All tournaments in the Bridge Olympic eSports Week event are played with robots, duplicate style. The player sits South, with robots in the other three seats at the table.
📌 This is an individual event, you do not need a partner to participate.
📌 The player declares for their robot partner when their side wins the contract.
📌 Players can use either the BBO mobile app or the BBO website (https://www.bridgebase.com) to participate.
📌 Players' IP address will determine which country they represent. If a country doesn’t have at least 10 players, the players will represent the “Rest of World”.
Registration & Eligibility
There is no pre-registration required to participate in this event. At any time for the duration of the event, players can log in to BBO and click any of the available Bridge Olympic eSports Week tournaments to start playing immediately. Each tournament is available to play for 24 hours.
Entry fee is 0.50 BB$ for each Bridge Olympic eSports Week Qualifier Tournament. A minimum of 5 Bridge Olympic eSports Week Qualifier Tournaments is required to be ranked in the Bridge Olympic eSports Week qualification phase.
The Bridge Olympic eSports Week Finals are free and restricted to players who have qualified in the previous phase.
Registration is open to any BBO member in good standing.
Conventions & Robots
BBO robots play a modified Two-over-One system. System notes and a convention card are available at https://www.bridgebase.com/doc/gib_system_notes.php. The robots sometimes deviate from this system if simulations lead them to other conclusions.
The robot’s understanding of what a bid means can be seen by hovering over the highlighted bid. When it is a player’s turn to bid, the player can see what robots think a bid means before making the bid. If the bid is not highlighted, it means the robots have no special understanding or definition for that particular bid.
Security
This event uses deal pools. Not every player will play the same boards. Each board will be duplicated a limited number of times.
Players are expected to refrain from communication with anyone else about the boards they have played in a session until the conclusion of the session.
Players agree not to misrepresent themselves and to not enter the event with multiple aliases.
Following each phase, provisional winners are listed, subject to manual review by an expert panel. The confirmed winner list for each phase and the overall event will be released after review, and the decisions of the panel are final.
Master Point awards and titles
Ranked players are awarded both WBF Master Points and BBO points.
Players results are ranked overall and by country.
The overall winner is conferred the title of Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion
Each represented* country's winners are conferred the title of Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion
*At least 10 players are needed to represent a country in order to win a Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion title.
A player's country is determined based on their IP
Rewards
Prizes for international champions
1st: 200 BB$ + free entry to play in the 13th World Transnational Open Teams Championship, taking place at the Movenpick Mansour Eddahbi Palais des Congrès in Marrakech. The event runs from Monday, August 28, through Saturday, September 2. This prize includes return flights and a six night stay in a hotel.
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
Prizes for national champions
1st: 40 BB$
2nd: 30 BB$
3rd: 20 BB$
Miscellaneous
If there are insufficient entrants, the event will be cancelled and all card fees refunded. The decision whether to cancel the event is at BBO's sole discretion. Players will be notified about the event cancellation before event start date.
If there are severe technical issues on BBO’s part that result in a player’s inability to complete their minimum required number of tournaments (hence disqualifying them from the event), the player’s card fees will be refunded.
If there are minor technical issues on BBO’s part that impede but do not prohibit a player’s ability to complete a session, no refunds are given.
To prevent misunderstandings, players are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the BBO software and the mechanics of robot play on BBO prior to the event. Players are strongly encouraged to learn how to read robot’s alerts, how to claim properly, and how to customize the software to ensure their full comfort (card size, card type, chat font size, etc.) before the event begins.
BBO Rules of the Site apply.
Bridge Olympic eSports Week - Special event
Awards & Titles
The overall winner will win a free entry to play in the 13th World Transnational Open Teams Championship, taking place at the Movenpick Mansour Eddahbi Palais des Congrès in Marrakech. The event runs from Monday, August 28, through Saturday, September 2. This will include return flights and a six night stay in a hotel.
📌 The title, 'Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion' will be awarded to the player with the highest score/percentage in the overall rankings.
📌 The title, 'Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion' will be awarded to the player with the highest score/percentage in their respective country's rankings.
BBO Points and WBF Master Points will also be awarded.
Prizes for International Champions
1st: 200 BB$ + one invitation to the World Championships in Marrakech 🎟️
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
Prizes for National Champions
1st: 40 BB$
2nd: 30 BB$
3rd: 20 BB$
The overall winner will win a free entry to play in the 13th World Transnational Open Teams Championship, taking place at the Movenpick Mansour Eddahbi Palais des Congrès in Marrakech. The event runs from Monday, August 28, through Saturday, September 2. This will include return flights and a six night stay in a hotel.
📌 The title, 'Bridge Olympic eSports Week International Champion' will be awarded to the player with the highest score/percentage in the overall rankings.
📌 The title, 'Bridge Olympic eSports Week National Champion' will be awarded to the player with the highest score/percentage in their respective country's rankings.
BBO Points and WBF Master Points will also be awarded.
Prizes for International Champions
1st: 200 BB$ + one invitation to the World Championships in Marrakech 🎟️
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
Prizes for National Champions
1st: 40 BB$
2nd: 30 BB$
3rd: 20 BB$
FAQ - Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament
The Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament is a global bridge competition held on Bridge Base Online (BBO). The tournament is split into two halves with the qualification phase (followed by a rest day), then the finals. It offers players a chance to win a trip to Marrakech for the World Championships. It's a unique opportunity to showcase your skills and compete with bridge players from around the world.
The Bridge Olympic Esports Week tournament will take place from June 19 to June 25. Please notice that tournament consists of two phases. The qualification phase will be held from June 19 to June 22. If you qualify for the next round, you'll have a rest day on June 23 to take a break and prepare. The finals will then take place on June 24-25.
To register for the tournament, during the tournament dates, you can simply sign in to BBO and go to ‘All Tournaments’. Click on any available Bridge Olympic Esports Week tournament to start playing. Remember that there is no pre-registration needed. Just choose a tournament, click "Register," and you're ready to go.
No, you do not need a partner. It is an individual event where you will be playing with three robots at your table.
Yes, you will play with robots. You will be seated as South, with robots in the other three seats at the table. You'll also declare for your robot partner when your side win the contract.
During the qualification phase from June 19 to June 22, you can participate in multiple tournaments. With a total of 40 games (10 per day) over four days, you need to play at least five tournaments to be ranked. Each tournament consists of 6 boards and lasts for 24 hours. The entry fee for each tournament is 0.50 BB$. To qualify to the finals, you must achieve an average score of at least 56% from your best five tournaments. Playing more tournaments increases your chances of qualifying for the finals.
The finals will take place on June 24 and June 25. After a rest day, qualified players will play in eight tournaments with eight boards each. These tournaments are available to play for 48 hours. The finals tournaments are free and open only to players who have qualified. Your best four scores from the eight tournaments will count towards your final ranking. The overall rankings will be available on Monday, June 26.
The entry fee for each tournament is 0.50 BB$.
BB$ is the money used inside BBO. You can buy BB$ with a credit card or Paypal.
→ Prizes for international champions
1st: 200 BB$ + one invitation to the World Championships in Marrakech 🎟️
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
→ Prizes for national champions
1st national player: 40 BB$
2nd national player: 30 BB$
3rd national player: 20 BB$
1st: 200 BB$ + one invitation to the World Championships in Marrakech 🎟️
2nd: 120 BB$
3rd: 80 BB$
4th-10th: 10 BB$
11th-50th: 5 BB$
51st-100th: 3 BB$
→ Prizes for national champions
1st national player: 40 BB$
2nd national player: 30 BB$
3rd national player: 20 BB$
Players of any skill level are welcome to participate.
The country operates on U.S. Eastern Time.
The robots will play a modified Two-over-One system. Don't worry if you're not familiar with the system, as all bids are alerted and explained automatically. You can mouse over a bid to see what the robot will understand.
No, the Bridge Olympic Esports Week tournament will be held online on BBO, so you can play from anywhere you want.