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Compscore2 Feature List

General features

  • Simple to use and extensive on-line help, plus printed manual
  • Program updates available on-line
  • Designed and written by qualified congress director / bridge player, and trialled extensively in a live club situation
  • Continually being enhanced, based on user feedback and Club / Director needs
  • Used in many bridge clubs, ranging in size from 50 to over 1,000 members, and with regular session sizes from 3 to 50 tables

For regular club sessions

  • Supports Bridgemates (any model) or manual scoring
  • Built-in Mitchells - NS rovers, odd and even numbers with skip or share & bye and any sit-out, 1.5 table appendix
  • Standard templates to manage 3 to 9 table howell / one-winner movements, and unlimited scope for other one-winner or two-winner movements using user-editable templates
  • Teams events - Whist, New England, Round-Robin, either single or multiple session, also Swiss Pairs and Teams
  • Score sessions by matchpoint, Butler or cross-imps
  • Players can enter either club computer number or ABF number to Bridgemates
  • Powerful anomalies checker, looking for potential Bridgemate entry errors, with option to import BRI file for enhanced anomaly checking
  • Supports all the Bridgemate display options - lead card, trick count entry and display, player names, next round movement details, end-of-round percentage and rank display
  • Handles all Australian masterpoint requirements using the Compscore2 Masterpoint Wizard, through to creating and uploading the monthly or quarterly Masterpoint Centre file
  • Red, green and gold masterpoints
  • Club membership management, including annual renewal statements and new member welcome letters
  • Handicapping using one of two methods (Compscore and RapScore)
  • Integrates tightly with Altosoft-built web sites, offering detailed session results upload with a few clicks, and with option for actual hands to be displayed on the web site
  • Produces HTM files for use on other web sites
  • Quick Start and Troubleshooting guides (2-page PDFs)
  • Includes updateable ABF masterpoint database
  • Option to print Movements Reports: Master Chart, Table Numbers (optionally showing player names), Personal Movement Slips (optionally showing player names), Initial Starting Tables
  • Session consolidations: across-the-field, eclectics (individual or pair), standard Multi for pairs and teams, for matchpoint and Butler-scored sessions
  • Handles multi-session barometer
  • Player Frequency Report, showing most frequent players over a given time period
  • Mini-McCutcheons, listing the top 5 masterpoint earners per category for the year within your club
  • Calculates session median player rank (for masterpoint master factor)
  • All reports can be saved at PDF file
  • Simple interface and Quick Close option to simplify standard club sessions
  • Template builder, allowing users to develop templates for any pairs or teams movement
  • Impose session penalties

For congress directors (these are all standard Compscore2 features which clubs can also use)

  • Many of the above features apply to congress events too
  • Supports Swiss Pairs and Teams, Round Robin Teams and Barometer Pairs events
  • Butler, cross-imps and matchpoint scoring
  • Quick names look-up from ABF database
  • Congress event masterpointing - determine median player, congress acceleration factor, weighting and restriction factors, Pairs masterpointing on per-win or sessional basis
  • Transfer players between events, and feed players from qualifying event to finals based on qualifying result
  • Automatic player seeding and category allocation
  • Bridgemates or manual scoring
  • Results and Draws can be displayed using data projector
  • Quick Post option to automate various end-of-round tasks (e.g. results, next draw, personal slips etc)
  • Detailed personal results summary per round or session, with option to print ready for guillotining and distribution based on next round seating
  • Whole reporting system allows for very transparent reporting
  • One-click to create an export file for QBA Results page
  • Concurrent Bridgemate sections, even when running Swiss movements, ideal for graded events

Altosoft web sites for clubs

  • Template-based, but with personalisation to differentiate your site from other clubs
  • Results display tightly integrated with Compscore2
  • Automatic and user-editable Breaking News on front page
  • Almost all facets of web site content are user-editable
  • Standard pages - Results, Coming Events, Session Times, Lessons, Calendar, Contact, Photos, Documents
  • Ability to upload user-generated PDFs and JPGs for display on site (e.g. newsletters)
  • Standard calendar (based on Queensland events) with option for user-added events and removal of inapplicable standard events
  • Fuill congress management facility via a password for managing congress entries, and which are displayed for public viewing on the Coming Events page
  • Display of boards from either BRI files (showing all hands with point count) or Dealmaster Pro TXT files (showing full hands plus point count and makeable contracts) and abiity to create required TXT files from PBNs