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#1 User is offline   Auntielola 

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Posted 2025-January-16, 14:27




Why not have an 18- bard speedball?
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Posted 2025-January-16, 15:17

That would be quite poetic.
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Posted 2025-January-17, 21:20

LOL
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Posted Yesterday, 16:16

I think the idea behind the speedball is that it's for people who want to get a quick game in, and an hour seemed like a reasonable amount of time. Playing less than 12 boards didn't seem reasonable (maybe ACBL wasn't even willing to award Masterpoints for less), so the result was a little less than 5 minutes per board.

But if we aren't trying to cram the game into an hour, there's less reason to rush through it. The difference between 90 minutes and 2 hours is less significant, and we can make the game a little more leisurely. Speedballs tend to have lots of rounds where the last board isn't completed and we have to assign results by the TD and robots. I don't think this is considered a feature, it's just a necessary evil to keep the game moving. Once we break the hour barrier, we don't want to encourage it.
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