Changing Team Line-up
Just ran a Mentored Pivot Team and failed in my attempts to adjust the line-up in EBUScoreTeams.
Initially, by default,: N/S 1/2 & E/W 3/4.
Then pivoted to N/S 1/3 & E/W 4/2
Then again to N/S 1/4 & E/W 2/3
I adjust manually in the "Seating Line-up" menu and copied to End of Session.
The Pivots never came through to the Bridgemates - I only tried "write names". Should I have done something else?
On the scores submitted to BridgeWebs the pivots have not come through either.
What did I fail to do?
Comments
A possibly important detail is that it was run in 2 sections and I made the line-up changes in the combined "Multi" section.
The lineup information does not affect the names written to Bridgemates. BCS expects the players to have same name throughout the session.
But the lineup information should be right in the XML usebio file - and should be right on Bridgewebs if you use the XML.
I've had a look. Curiously it was run as 2 sections and one has the pivot and the other doesn't, even though the changes have rippled through to both from the parent "Multi" event. Both sections appear to be set up the same, except one 7 tables and the other 8. But I must have mis-set something.
For a Pivot teams, you should set 'Enter Numbers at each Round' in the Set BCS options (and then you wont have to preset the seating lineup). As Robin said, the Bridgemates assume the intial name entry is static. In addition, as Robin says the XML infornation will still be right whatever.
This is in line with Swiss Teams where you may switch the team around and not know ahead of time of the seating lineups.