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Running Score: Bridge Olympic eSports

Here are the running scores after day 3 of the Bridge Olympic Esports Week Tournament. Have you made it to the final round yet?

Don't worry if you haven't qualified yet as you have until June 22 to make it to the final! As a reminder, you need to average at least 56% from your best five tournaments. 

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40 comments on “Running Score: Bridge Olympic eSports”

  1. No, psyching is not cheating. If you remove psyching, only the very top bridge players will have a shot at winning. This is not a bridge competition. It's a robot competition.

  2. Psych bidding must be discouraged and penalized in this type of tournament!
    Psych bidding is same as cheating when any one is playing with 3 robots!!!

  3. Just to comment that Psychs are reported in F-to-F because partners "learn" to acomodate them.The Bots can't do that so Psychs are all a part of playing against Bots: It's a different form of bridge!

  4. I am Indonesian, play 15 sessions, getting 77%. Yes, i psyching robot wt some nonsystemic bid. It is not cheating, since i dont break any rules. I believe, with the various possibilities faced by robots, in the future the robot's thinking algorithm will get better.

    2. no psyching is not cheating, cheating would be trying to figure out what the hands are by sharing hands in advanced before playing.

  5. Any decent bridge player should score over 70% here. Remember you're only seeing the top five of fifty scores. I'm guessing the only possible cheats are the Indonesians because there are no good players who live there. Note I'm in 33rd place and didn't play particularly well.

  6. I suspect there's a lot of cheating going on looking at the scores.

    Does everyone play the same 6 hands in each tournament? or is it 6 random hands drawn from a large pool? If it's the former then cheating would be very easy you just play the boards on one account then play the same boards on another account.

    I would recommend checking all the players that have top 5 average over 70%. See if they guess every finesse right but don't know advanced bidding and always get lucky but don't know advanced play techniques.

    I'm sure many were lucky/very good but I would wager more are cheating.

    1. or I should say at least over 75%.

      70%+ is understandable with top 5/40 and high variance with only 6 boards. But 75-80 is awfully suspicious.

      1. These are expected scores over short tourneys. In addition to the deal pools (not everyone plays the same hands, not in each game and not overall), there were extra checks in place to ensure players likely to know each other don't get the same hands. Now that the qualifiers are over we'll run more checks to eliminate people who may have registered with multiple accounts.

        1. ok good

          Best to have like a pool of 100 hands per tournament and give each player 6 random deals.

          I understand with only 6 boards the variance is high so 80+ is normal but to get 5 80+ is unlikely. Possible they got pair with groups of weaker players.

  7. Having looked at a few of the top scorers sessions and board results it is very clear that many have worked out when and how to mislead the robots with non-systemic bids. In the real world these frequent Psych bids get recorded and players do not get away with them consistently over time. It is unfortunate that the robots don't seem to deal well with Pyschs, particularly short suit openings, and 3NT rebids showing 7+ suits.

    1. I think they're clearly cheating and phycing the robots at the same time. Probably knew the boards before hand.

  8. It's interesting to see the rather unusual style that has earned the leaders such high scores. For sure you won't earn 80% bidding what everyone else bids.

    1. In the real world Psychs are recorded and players cant get away with them over time. Robots seem to be gluttons for punishment and never learn or adapt, even when faced with the evidence during a defence.

  10. Unfortunately somenplayers are obviously using multiple logons to see the deals then use their main handle to score up to 80% which spoils it for everyone else

      1. Statistically, high scores are very possible across a reduced number of boards. Anyone can have a great run on 4-6 boards. However, when they are consistently high across a large number of boards, looking at the decisions made by players tells us h

    2. Not everyone plays the same boards. And players who play with multiple aliases are disqualified, they won't make the finals.

      1. Couple of inferences can be drawn from Paul's comment:
        A: They/he/she probably didn't do it otherwise they would know it didn't work.
        B. ...... (Let's keep this a nice place.)

  14. Are Indonesians going to comprise half of the top ten as usual, BBO???

    2. With around 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country [Wikipedia]

      1. Indonesia could be the most populous country on Earth. Unfortunately, there are no expert Indonesian players.

  16. Do you take into account the results from the qualifications in the finals? Or everyone who is qualified will start the finals from 0?

  17. Would it be possible to get the running scores in some downloadable format as well? It takes quite some time to run through it by scrolling it over through the end.

    1. I think the only way to process the data is to copy it all into an Excel table and search or filter as required.

      1. If you are using a computer, you can use the searchfield function (CTRL + F or CTRL + B) and then search for your username.

    1. That is correct. If you already got your 56% over 5 tournaments, you're qualified. No need to play the rest of the days. You can keep playing just for fun and to boost up your totals while winning some extra BBO points, of course 🙂

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