Your March newsletter
This month we have analysed the number of deals played every day on Funbridge. The result is pretty impressive and that is putting it mildly.
Indeed, we have reached the million mark with 1,003,729 deals played in a day on 6 July 2015.
The following game modes have seen the highest number of deals played: series (460,000 deals a day on average), practice (200,000 deals a day), challenges (150,000 deals a day) and tournaments of the day (140,000 deals a day).
It is up to you and the whole Funbridge community to break this record! So we invite you to discover the new community window where you will see the online players per country, series and friends. Take this opportunity to challenge them, send them a message or practise together.
Other news of March
 The EBU tried out several bridge apps
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 The last article by Jérôme RombautJérôme analyses a deal from a national practice session:
“Reopening, even green vs red, has its limits and may cost you dearly.” |
 Update of the Mac version
You will now be able to resize the app window and you will get the most out of the reorganised home page.
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Stay tuned to get the latest Funbridge news!
Have fun playing tournaments on Funbridge!
The four-board tournament series are what I usually play, but I find that I tend to wait for the next period to begin once I have secured a promotion or rescued myself from a demotion. For example, I have just improved my score to 55.2% in the current series with about ten days to go. Playing on would risk falling below the 54% threshold, so I will wait until the next series begins, unless my score drops below 54%, Since the periods are 15 days long, this often means I wait a week or more before playing again. The data about how many deals of each type are played seems to indicate that it might be useful to have TWO overlapping tournament series’: either two matchpoint series, or maybe one in matchpoints and one in IMPs. The important point would be to overlap them, so that one series would be starting anew each week. That would keep many people playing more often and if you made the second series an IMPs series, would show players which format they needed more work on.
what do MP and IMP mean
I agree with Bruce…This having to wait a week to play agin is not what I want in bridge. There should be 2 overlapping games where you can be playing all the time. I have secured a 57% and I still can’t play and I went to buy extra deals and it told me I already bought this. So what do you really need to continue. It is very confusing. I have spent more money a month to play by buying extra deals but do you actually get what you buy. Three months ago it was 14.99 to play , now it’s 17.99 to play Why so much
I agree with Bruce…This having to wait a week to play again is not what I want in bridge. There should be 2 overlapping games where you can be playing all the time. I have secured a 57% and I still can’t play and I went to buy extra deals and it told me I already bought this. So what do you really need to continue. It is very confusing. I have spent more money a month to play by buying extra deals but do you actually get what you buy. Three months ago it was 14.99 to play , now it’s 17.99 to play Why so much
I agree with the question! What do MP & IMP mean?
Hi Pudding and Abrl, here is the meaning of MP (Match Points) and IMP (International Match Points) scroring:
– MP scoring is for tournaments in which a large number of players play the same deals and the goal is to score better than other players.
– IMP scoring is rather used for team tournaments where the goal is to reach the biggest possible margin compared to other players.
Read more here: https://www.funbridge.com/en/help_faq/touch/scores
Hi Bruce, hi Janice, thank you for your feedback. I bring this information to the service concerned of developing game modes.