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Has your club seen its attendances swell during the online
era of the past eighteen months? And, as face-to-face
bridge resumes, is your club now preparing to wave a fond
farewell to those players only able to play online, on account
of geography, disability, lack of transport, simple
preference?

This doesn’t have to be the case, because Bridgemate, in
conjunction with Pianola, has developed Bridgemate Play,
a capability whereby a club can run hybrid events. In such
an event the face-to-face players at the club play normally,
albeit with appropriate sanitising arrangements, whereas the
online players play the same boards online.

A hybrid event is created by the club’s normal scoring
program, but it has two sections, one for face-to-face and
the other for online. Both face-to-face and online results are
forwarded immediately to the Bridgemate event database
so, once a board has been played, players see all previous
results, both face-to-face and online. And the scoring
program produces the combined event results from this
event database in the normal way.

Please contact us for more information, or to arrange a trial
event for your club.