[paulg]

I noticed a significant change to the registration process for a Swiss Teams event this evening.

Suppose Player A invites Player B to partner them in the event. When Player B accepts, it is now Player B who must invite another pair to be their teammates.

This is a poor change for those events when you know who you are teaming up with. In many partnerships, especially at club level, Player A is always the player who knows how to register the partnership for a tournament and is also the one who knows how to invite teammates. I have many Player B's who have very little idea how to register and no idea how to invite teammates to team with them.

This evening it meant that I had one team registered with five minutes to go before the tournament and 26 pairs waiting for teammates. As the teams were set, and I cannot team up themselves, it was a stressful five minutes and we had to start late.

Paul

[paulg]

Just to say that BBO Support says that this was not an intended change. They have identified the problem and should have a fix in place shortly.

[diana_eva]

Yes, we'll fix it this week. Sorry for the disruptions to your teams tourneys.

[diana_eva]

This has been resolved. The flow of registrations is back to normal. We'll issue refunds for the affected tournaments. Apologies for the disruption.