Publishing and uploading results

IBEScore supports a variety of targets and publication formats for your event results. Most of these can be executed within the app; a few need a PC or Mac.

Publishing from the App

The following uploads can be done from the IBEScore app publication screen. Each upload is based on a short form which needs to be filled out. When you fill in each form, IBEScore may suggest values for some of the information, based on what you have entered in the past. If IBEScore’s suggestion for any piece of information is correct, then that information does not need to be re-entered.

If a form is not filled out correctly, the “Publish” button will be greyed out, and the incomplete parts of the form will be underlined in red.

BridgeWebs

Tap the “BridgeWebs” title text until the BridgeWebs form is visible.
Tap “BridgeWebs account” and type in your account name.
Tap “Director” and type in the name of the tournament director for your session.
Tap “Scorer” and type in the scorer’s name, if different from the director.
Tap “Master points” to toggle between “Yes” and “No” depending on whether master points are awarded for the event.
Tap “Publish”. Enter your BridgeWebs password.

If successful, you will then be invited to “go to page” to review the upload.

English Bridge Union

Tap the “EBU” title text so that the EBU form is visible.
Tap “EBU club name” and type in your club’s name, eg “BridgeExtra Bridge Club”
Tap “Club EBU ID” and type in your club’s EBU id. This should be a number, headed by as many zeroes as necessary to make it up to eight digits.
Tap “Director” and type in the name of the tournament director for your session.
Tap “Director email” type in a contact email which can be used by the EBU in case of problems.
Tap “Master points” to toggle between “Yes” and “No” depending on whether master points are awarded for the event.
If Master Points were awarded, then:
Tap “MP type” to select the colour of master points awarded for the event (normally black).
Tap “MP scale” to select the master point scale, if the event is not a basic club event.
Tap “MP charge code” to select the rate at which P2P should be charged.
Finally:
Tap “Publish”. Enter your club’s EBU password.
If the event is rejected by the EBU, try uploading it from a computer.

Scottish Bridge Union

Tap the “SBU” title text so that the SBU form is visible.
Tap “SBU club name” and type in your club’s name, eg “Aberdeen Bridge Club”
Tap “SBU id code” and type in your club’s code. This should contain four capital letters with a slash between the first and the second, eg “A/BCD”.
Tap “Director” and type in the name of the tournament director for your session.
Tap “Director email” type in a contact email which can be used by the EBU in case of problems.
Tap “Master points” to toggle between “Yes” and “No” depending on whether master points are awarded for the event.
If Master Points were awarded, then:
Tap “MP type” to toggle the colour of master points awarded between black (normal) and red.
Tap “MP scale” to select the master point scale, if the event is not a basic club event.
Tap “SBU event code” to select a suitable event code.
Finally:
Tap “Publish”.
If the event is rejected eg due to missing SBU numbers, try uploading it from a computer.
Otherwise, provided you typed your E-mail correctly, you should receive a confirmation E-mail within about 15 minutes.

Ecats simultaneous pairs

Tap the “Ecats” title text so that the Ecats form is visible.
Tap “Ecats session number” and type in the four-digit numeric code for the session.
Tap “Club or group name” and type the name of your club.
Tap “National federation id” and type in your club’s eg EBU or SBU number (leave blank if none)

Tap “Director” and type in the name of the tournament director for your session.
Tap “Director email” and type in an address to which Ecats will send a confirmation that your results were received.
Tap “Country” to select your country. This refers to your “bridge country”, so select eg England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland rather than United Kingdom.
Optional:
Tap “County”, “Town”, “Phone” to enter your county, town and phone number respectively.
Finally:
Tap “Publish”. If you typed your E-mail correctly, you should receive a confirmation E-mail within about 15 minutes.

To leave the publication screen, use the back button on your device..

Publishing from a laptop, PC or Mac

While you will usually be able to upload directly from the app, publishing from the website is more versatile in that you can download the files that you are trying to upload in order to diagnose any problems. Also certain publication formats are available only on the website.

To publish using the website, navigate to IBEScore’s brother product www.www.brianbridge.net/ and log in using your GAME CODE and password.

Once logged in, click on “Upload/download”. The vertical row of buttons towards the left offers several options for publishing:

Bridgewebs

Click on the “Bridgewebs” button.
Enter the director and event names in the text boxes provided.
Enter your Bridgewebs ID and Bridgewebs password (not your IBEScore slot name and password).
Click on “Upload”, and wait up to 10 seconds. The results page will now be on your Bridgewebs site, and you will be invited to click a button to view it there immediately and check it over.
If you are interested in what the uploaded file looks like, click “Download”.

Html/pdf:

Click on the “html/pdf” button.
Enter the director and event names in the text boxes in the form on the left.
Optional: Type a comment to appear at the top of the published results, eg Thank you to everyone for coming – we had a wonderful afternoon. Well done to winners Oscar and Peregrine who just pipped an unlucky Karapet and Walrus into second place. See you all next week!
Select either “html” or “pdf”. Html tends to be better than pdf for a full breakdown of the event with including hand diagrams, travellers and personal scorecards. Pdf is recommended for a neat one-page document showing only the rankings.
Click “Preview” to check your results.
Click “Download to fetch the html or pdf to your computer. You can then circulate this or otherwise publish it.

EBU:

Click on “EBU P2P file”.
Fill in the form.
To submit directly to the EBU, click on “Upload”.
If the file is not accepted, download the P2P file by clicking on “Download”. Then log in at https://www.ebu.co.uk/members/v2/ and upload your session using this same file. You will be able to resolve name conflicts here as well as adding new members.

SBU:

Click on “SBU MEMPAD file”.
Fill in the form.
To submit directly to the SBU, click on “Upload”. If you typed your E-mail correctly, you should receive a confirmation E-mail within about 15 minutes.
If you are interested in what the uploaded file looks like, click “Download”.

Other National Bridge Organisations:

The IBEScore team are working with other nations outside of the UK to automate the submission of masterpoints.

Here are two examples of the file formats generated by IBEScore post game processing:

Right mouse click and then click save-as to download these sample files and try to upload them to your usual masterpoint or website.

If these files are not suitable for your national affiliation, please contact us and we will do our best to help with subscriber customisations (there is no charge for post-game processing until we have a solution that talks successfully to your national organisation masterpoint submission requirements).

Ecats:

Click on “Ecats”.
Fill in the form.
To submit directly to the Ecats organisers, click on “Upload”. If you typed your E-mail correctly, you should receive a confirmation E-mail within about 15 minutes.
If you are interested in what the uploaded files look like, click “Download”. You will be sent a zipped directory containing four files.

If submission to a national federation fails because some players are missing national federation ids, find out what their ids are (registering them if necessary), and add them to the player database and save it. Finalise the game again, and try re-submitting.

Making corrections to a published or historic event

To make corrections to an event in the past, that event must be restored from your account’s event archive. Restoring an event can only be done using the website; it cannot be done using the app.

To restore an event, navigate to the web browser, and log in using your slot name and password. Click on “Settings” followed by “Historic games”.

Inspect the list of archived events, scrolling down if necessary, to find the event to be corrected. When you find it, double-click on the event. A message will appear saying “Game restored”.

Warning: do not attempt to restore a historic event while a current event is in progress. The restored event will replace the current event, which will become inaccessible to players. and the current game scores will be lost.