[nxw0016]

Please tell me it isn't so... but you can't play the "Free" NABC robot practice tournaments now without premium membership? The message indicates that free members only get 6 free hands a day and this tourney has 12 boards. Well that's pretty disgusting. They have been running this NABC robot tourney with two weekends of free (really free) practice games for years. Now this brilliant new owner took over, they want to make more money not by offering more creative services, but taking what had been there away from users. Did this manager go to school? Or just another one of those college dropout made billions without seeing the big picture?
I spend money on good people. You are not getting my money.

[strags]

Yeah, I have to agree. I understand BBO's need to move to a subscription model, and I wish them luck. But, limiting the "free" NABC practice tournament to subscribers is not one of their better decisions. It should be free to everyone in the BBO community.

[diana_eva]

There was a configuration error with the NABC Practice tourneys, I'm very sorry about this. We fixed it now, and added 12 additional hours for players to be able to play it. There is no need to be premium to play this tournament.

So the Free NABC Practice 1 ends at approximately 5pm US Eastern, and the Free NABC Practice second session begins with a 12h delay, at 5pm US Eastern.

[nxw0016]

diana_eva, on 2026-November-08, 02:56, said:

There was a configuration error with the NABC Practice tourneys, I'm very sorry about this. We fixed it now, and added 12 additional hours for players to be able to play it. There is no need to be premium to play this tournament.

So the Free NABC Practice 1 ends at approximately 5pm US Eastern, and the Free NABC Practice second session begins with a 12h delay, at 5pm US Eastern.

Thank you Diana_eva. This is much better.

That dying ember of hope in today's humanity might just get live to see another day.