[mrdct]

With the timezone being inhospitable for Europeans, together with the plethora of other BBO vugraph on at the same time, Roland has handed me the keys again to organise the commentators for the PABF Championship starting on Wednesday 23 August 2006.

With so much going on at the same time, the "usual suspects" will probably be hard to come by, so this is a great opportunity for any budding commentators out there to put their hand up and give it a go.

If you are interested, please email mrdct@amontay.com with "PABF" in the subject line. To streamline things even more, have a look at the BBO schedule (sorted by event will make it easier) and tell me which matches you are available for.

Coverage details aren't confirmed yet, but I'm expecting 2-table coverage. For most matches I expect to run English commentary in the open room and an Asian language and/or languages in the closed room similar to how we did it from Korea last year.

[mrdct]

Vugraph Matches for First Round-Robin (Shanghai Time GMT+8):

Wednesday 23/8
RR1-1: 1000 Open - China v Macau
RR1-2: 1400 Open - Japan v Australia

Thursday 24/8
RR1-3: 1000 Women - Indonesia v China
RR1-4: 1400 Open - Singapore v Thailand
RR1-5: 1715 Women - Australia v New Zealand

Friday 25/8
RR1-6: 1000 Open - Hong Kong v China
RR1-7: 1400 Women - Japan v New Zealand
RR1-8: 1715 Women - Korea v Hong Kong

Saturday 26/8
RR1-9: 1000 Open - China v Australia
RR1-10: 1400 Women - Philippines v Thailand
RR1-11: 1715 Open - China v Chinese Taipei

Where possible the closed room commentary will be Asian language. I still have quite a few vacant commentary spots available if anyone wants to volunteer. Please email me at mrdct@amontay.com with PABF in the subject.

[hrothgar]

Hi Dave...

Here's a potentially difficult request:

Some of the MOSCITO pairs are doing quite well down in Shanghai. Marston - Grosvenor just won the pairs qualifying event and Reid - Newell (whose system is close enough) came in third...

Any chance that you could let us know which of the Aussie / Kiwi teams will be shown on Vugraph? The decision whether to adjust my sleeping habits depends a lot on who is going to be playing..

(Please note, I'm certainly not qualified as a chinese language commentator, just hoping to watch some fun bridge)

[mrdct]

The series from which the vugraph matches come are denoted in my previous post as "Open" or "Women". There is no coverage of the New Zealand Open team in the first round-robin, but Australia will be shown twice.

The second round robin vugraph matches will be selected at the conclusion of the first round robin, so if New Zealand are doing well they may get some coverage in the second round robin.

So for MOSCITO fans, potential opportunties to watch Marston-Grosvenor are as follows:

RR1-2 (Japan v Australia)
RR1-9 (Australia v China)

Obviously I can't predict who is going to sit in which room, or indeed who is going to be playing in each match, but I'd expect there's a reasonable chance that there will be some MOSCITO action in at least one of these matches.

[mrdct]

Vugraph matches for the first four matches of the second round robin have been advised to me as follows (times are Shanghai time which is GMT+8):

Sunday 27 August 2006:

RR2-1: 10:00 Seniors: Chinese Taipei vs Australia-Krochmalik
RR2-2: 14:00 Ladies: Indonesia vs China Hong Kong
RR2-3: 17:15 Open: Indonesia vs Chinese Taipei

Monday 28 August 2006:

RR2-4: 10:00-Seniors: China-G vs Japan-Naito

For about the last 20 hours I've been unable to access BBO through my ISP (optusnet if you are thinking of who not to use) so I may or may not be around to help ungag commentators. If you want to commentate, please ask a yellow.

[mrdct]

Vugraph matches for the first four matches of the second round robin have been advised to me as follows (times are Shanghai time which is GMT+8):

Sunday 27 August 2006:

RR2-1: 10:00 Seniors: Chinese Taipei vs Australia-Krochmalik
RR2-2: 14:00 Ladies: Indonesia vs China Hong Kong
RR2-3: 17:15 Open: Indonesia vs Chinese Taipei

Monday 28 August 2006:

RR2-4: 10:00-Seniors: China-G vs Japan-Naito

For about the last 20 hours I've been unable to access BBO through my ISP (optusnet if you are thinking of who not to use) so I may or may not be around to help ungag commentators. If you want to commentate, please ask a yellow.

[uday]

Globix is having problems.

This link may help

http://online.bridge...doc/connect.php

[mrdct]

The local organisers in Shanghai have decided to increase coverage to at least two matches per round from now on with the China Open Team to be given blanket coverage for the rest of the event.