The Basic SAYC Daylong Tournament is 8-boards long and has a small entry fee in BB$. You do not need a partner to register.
You sit South, and three advanced robots sit in the other 3 seats. This is a very pure form of bridge, as you are competing against all the other players sitting South, who are also playing with the same robots as you.
Your partner and opponents are advanced robots, set to play Basic SAYC. The game awards BBO Points if you do well. Daylong tournaments are typically very large (they are also called "massive tournaments"), and they award significantly more BBO points than other games.
What are Daylong Tournaments?
Daylongs are a type of robot tourney (with one player plus three robots at the table) where you have up to 24 hours to complete your game. You can register, play at your own pace, leave the table, then resume the game any time during the day without losing your results, from midnight to midnight GMT (UTC). You get a provisional result right after you finish playing, and the final results will be available the next day (after the tournament is completed), in a BBO mail.
Results
A provisional leaderboard is available right after you finish playing, and can be accessed while the game is in progress in the list of Completed tournaments. Your final result will be sent to your BBO Mailbox, or can be accessed in Recent Tournaments, in the History tab, after the game is completed.
Human Declares
You sit South, but switch North if your Robot partner is declarer so you can declare the hand. When the hand is over, you switch back to sitting south again.
Deal Pool
For every board in a Daylong tournament, we deal multiple instances (ie not everyone gets the same board 1, board 2, etc.) This is an anti cheating measure.
About the robots
The robots play a simple 5-card major, standard American system. Learn more about the system played by the Basic SAYC robots by clicking here.
Find out the meaning of a bid by clicking on it in the bidding diagram. When it is your turn to bid, hover your mouse over the possible bids and you will see an explanation of how your robot partner will interpret it. Read these carefully to avoid misunderstandings with your robot partner.