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Some players have asked if we have the ability to see the opening lead along with the results of a hand on our website. We can allow you to enter that lead into the Bridgemate scoring machines, but before turning that option on, we would like to find out what our members feel about it. I have created a short survey that should take you all of 43 seconds to fill out that will gauge your interest in this option.

Click on this message anywhere to take it, but please - if you have taken this survey before, please do not take it again.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW:

DIAMOND LIFE MASTER                      Gerry Kuttas

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RUBY LIFE MASTER                        Lee Green

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SECTIONAL MASTER                      Jim Andrews

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JUNIOR MASTERS                          Bettirae Woodruff

                                                       Donna M Hancock

Sometimes North could be discouraged by a bad result and just wants to get the hand over with, so (s)he carelessly enters the wrong contract, wrong direction or wrong score. Maybe he just pressed the wrong key accidentally.  It is now West’s job to verify the correct entry of the score, but because he has done it so many times, the West player doesn’t always read the entire entry. Rather, he is looking for 420 and he sees it, so he automatically presses the “APPROVE” button on the Bridgemate machine. Now we have an incorrect score because it says North South played the hand for 420 when it was really East-West making the 420. This affects the score of all the teams in the event.

While I sympathize with the situation, we must be more careful. These machines are great to use and save us a lot of time, but that old saying “Familiarity breeds contempt” is so true. We are getting some scoring errors and would really, really appreciate these errors going away. A little more caution should solve this problem.

North, take a few seconds and make sure you enter the score correctly – West, take a few seconds and make sure you read and verify the score correctly. Our directors and players will be very grateful for your help.