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you could be right, although my information came from the on-site VG team.
Maybe your source is more reliable.
nickf
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How about a longer vugraph delay? Another Poll
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Posted 2009-August-02, 20:27
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Posted 2009-August-05, 07:39
I would watch the VuGraphs and find them interesting even if the delay were longer than 30 minutes (AND even if I knew who finally won the matches).
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Posted 2009-August-09, 18:32
nickf, on Aug 2 2009, 09:27 PM, said:
you could be right, although my information came from the on-site VG team.
Maybe your source is more reliable.
nickf
sydney
Maybe your source is more reliable.
nickf
sydney
As a member of the "on-site Vugraph team," I am confident that there was no delay. On Wednesday & Thursday I was sitting in the playing room monitoring the match on my computer while it was being played and looking for substitute matches that were playing at about the same pace - I am confident that I would have known if there was a delay; on Friday I was an operator and the audience feedback was in "real time."
Jan Martel, who should probably state that she is not speaking on behalf of the USBF, the ACBL, the WBF Systems Committee, or any member of any Systems Committee or Laws Commission.
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Posted 2009-August-10, 09:37
It was long years ago, in 1970 I was in Lycee. One of our teachers recommended to class read a novel.
A Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, author of the masterwork 'El quijote', there said Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
The wise people in Turkey also believe to this one :
Strike the iron while it's hot
A Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, author of the masterwork 'El quijote', there said Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
The wise people in Turkey also believe to this one :
Strike the iron while it's hot
We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak. Quoted by Albert Einstein.
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Posted 2009-September-05, 23:02
The live show with good amateur commentators texting is a nice offering that appeals to an audience of an absolute max, so far, of about 7000 people. It is about the slowest imaginable show, but I like it, esp. when my friends are playing. World Poker Tour with an extensively edited TV version with professional oral commentary appeals to 10 to 100+ times as many. I can imagine that bridge might eventually do something similar perhaps on a smaller scale.
By the way, in the early 1960's Barry Crane tried to put bridge on TV with the Wide World of Sports and suffered the agony of defeat, as did the Charles Goren TV show.