Wish me luck
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Topic: Wish me luck
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: Wish me luck
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 09:55
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Some of you may know that Jean and I are avid players of the card game bridge and really good at it. I have been asked to co-commentate the match Germany vs Austria at the European Open Team Championships tomorrow and feel really honoured. Wish me luck for it!
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 09:55
| Good luck! |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 09:57
Oh, and according to Niels Bohr, the truth that x=1 if x^2=1 is a great truth, because the opposite, x=-1 is also true. 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 10:07
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Good luck. ------------- 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 10:21
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Indeed, that is a great honour indeed. Good luck with that, Friede.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 10:42
I hope you won't be needing any luck to commentate, but please post any bloopers you make should your tongue become tied at anytime 
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 10:42
 
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 13:47
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Wow! Good luck!
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 13:53
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^ What they said. Good luck! |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 17:45
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Good luck, prog could use another game master besides the snooker guy who likes Magma. :P
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 17:47
| Really! Such an honour. Good luck! |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 17:52
| Ah great!! Good luck!! |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 17:55
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Hals- und Beinbruch!
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 04:06
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Thank you all! The latest news is that I will also be co-commentating the match Germany - Hungary, which will start in less than an hour! I just got the news lol. Thanks Goddess there is no technical problem with that due to vugraph, the method by which bridge matches are being broadcast..
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 07:47
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Well, the match Germany-Hungary just ended, and it was great fun commentating it. It was a very close match; Germany finally lost by 43-46. A total of 89 IMPs is a lot for 20 boards, but there were very few pushs and lots of swings. Of course this is all Greek to people who don't play bridge, but for those who do this will be interesting. A remark for non-bridgeplayers: Tournament bridge is the only card game for which the random factor of card luck plays no role at all, due to the special conditions of the tournaments. It goes like this: Bridge is being played four players at each table, the two facing each other forming a pair. Each team has two pairs (well, actually three; they can exchange a pair, but only two pairs actually play). The teams play in two rooms; one is called the open room, the other the closed room. Now the cards that pair one of Team A gets in the closed room will be the cards that pair two of team B gets in the open room and vice versa. The results of each board (each deal of cards is called a "board" in bridge, due to the manner of transportation of deals in a tournament; the cards each player held are put into four different slots in a specially designed board) are simply compared afterwards. A very simple way to eliminate card luck. Oh, and if anybody is curious about how I did the first time I commentated: I got a "Well done!" from Roland Wald, a Danish top player who organizes the broadcasts.  ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: June 15 2008 at 16:05
GOOD LUCK!!!!!  ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 28 2008 at 07:41
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Well, the European team championships of Bridge are over. The German men wound up third after Norway and Russia. Italy surprisingly only were fifth (Italy are arguably the leading bridge nation in the world, though the USA are a good competitor for that title). The German ladies disappointed a little in the end; they wound up only fifth after leading for a long time (the German ladies are among the top teams in the world, and their best pair Auken / von Arnim is the leading pair). But you must not forget there were three matches daily, which is very exhausting for all players (and for the commentators too). Towards the end there were a lot of mistakes even from the best players. We commentated all throughout the tournament; Jean and I swapped duties as commentators, and it was a lot of fun. And we will be asked to commentate again in the future, as Roland Wald, who organizes the broadcasts, told us, so we must have done a good job. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 05 2008 at 20:43
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I guess it is too late to wish you all luck hahha.. sorry about that . I missed this earlier.. was looking for another buried thread and ran across this one. That is quite cool to be chosen to to do that. Glad it all went well.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 06 2008 at 23:09
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I really dont know how to play Bridge... but if the baldies play it it must be pretty weiird and cooooool... jejejeje Much luck!!! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: July 06 2008 at 23:09
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Ups, it seems I have come too late...
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 06 2008 at 23:18
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^Topic: Wish me luck Posted: 14 June 2008 at 23:55 Perhaps  ------------- 
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