[mrdct]

I noticed on the weekend that during the USBF Open Teams, where the coverage was dual table, in "movie" the names of the players in the other room was simply "North", "South", etc. whereas if you moved to the other room the actual names were indeed there. It looks like a software issue.

I have heard a commentator report this problem once before and as far as I know it doesn't happen with single table ("B") coverage when the operator has redealt to a closed room board, entered names, and then redealt back to an open room board.

[nikos59]

This is interesting, I mean I had the intention to raise the matter
here and I find that my friend mrdct has already raised it.
Fine!

The reason I wanted to raise the matter: there is a thread in r.g.b.
about Hand 119 of the semifinals (the slam by Soloway that decided
the match) and a reader specifically asked: Is there any site
where I can find the players' names? There was not.
Now there is because I added them at my site. I used to do this manually after every match but only when I was watching (and even then not always) and this
match was played in the middle of the night for us Europeans.

I don't know whether the problem is caused by a bug or an operator's
omission/erroneous handling. Sometimes the names are there,
sometimes not: for instance, for the USBC finals, Segment 1 is ok,
Segment 2 is not.

Nikos Sarantakos

[mrdct]

I watched it live and I am sure that the names were correctly specified during the presentation. I was actually watching the open and closed rooms at the same time on two separate computers, but was frequently switching over to see what was going on in the Ekeblad-Welland match. I've just checked the LIN file saved on the other machine (which was the one mainly tuned into the open room) and it too is missing the names for the open room.

It was definately Soloway south and Hamman north - with Soloway finding the winning line. EW were Sontag-Weichsel, but I can't remember which was which. I think Sontag was west, but I'm not 100% sure.