Instant Tournament is a new take on bridge tournaments - play a tournament anytime and earn masterpoints without waiting for partners or opponents!
Instant Robot tournaments combine the best of a tournament and a single player game. When you start an IT game, you will be dealt deals from a past tournament you have not played before, and have your scores compared against 14 players in those tourneys. If you do well, you receive masterpoints.
BBO Instant Tournaments award BBO Points and cost 0.45 BB$ to play.
ACBL Instant Tournaments award ACBL masterpoints and BBO Points. You can play up to 2 ACBL IT an hour, and they cost 1.25 BB$ to play.
You can choose to play IMP or MP versions of the tournament.
This game is Best Hand - your hand will always contain at least the same HCP as the next highest HCP hand.
It is also Human Declare - when North wins the contract, South (you!) will declare instead.
There is no time limit for the tournament. However, if you are idle for a long time, you will be disconnected from BBO and the game is forfeited.
The robots used on BBO are called GIB (Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer). You can find out more about GIB's bidding system by clicking here.
The GIBs used in BBO play a relatively simple and natural 2/1 bidding system. You can find out the meaning of any bid by clicking on that bid as it appears in the bidding diagram. Furthermore,when it is your turn to bid, moving your mouse over the buttons for the various possible bids will cause an explanation of the bid you are considering (as your GIB partner will understand it) to be displayed.These explanations can be somewhat cryptic, but reading them carefully before you bid will help you to avoid misunderstandings with your GIB partner.