English Bridge Union
EBUScore, including support for it, is one of the benefits of affiliation to the EBU and is provided free of charge to all our affiliated clubs and counties for use by their members for their own events.
Many of our clubs make full use of this, but some others have chosen to remain with their existing scoring program for a variety of reasons, including concern about the difficulties of migration, inertia, or even being unaware that EBUScore is provided for them as a free option.
This article aims to help you understand what is available, how best to make use of it and how to transfer across from your existing scoring program if you want to.
One thing that is worth noting is that you do not have to use all the capabilities of EBUScore: it consists of five separate programs, Pairs, Teams, Swiss Pairs, Swiss Teams and Individual, which will not all be needed by all clubs. Some clubs use a specific one only for some special events, such as for Swiss Pairs events or Individuals, and retain their existing program for their regular club pairs nights.
Many clubs and counties use EBUScore Teams for their teams-of-eight events and EBU TD James Vickers has created templates of one popular arrangement of those events, based on two counties playing head-to-head teams-of-eight matches in three divisions concurrently. This enables other counties that use the same format to avoid having to set it up for themselves. They can be downloaded from the EBUScore page.
For those who do want to start using EBUScore, the programs themselves are downloadable from your club or county’s My EBU area. There is a manual available to help you get started and a wiki to answer some of your questions, including a page on transferring your data from Jeff Smith’s scorers, and another on transferring from Scorebridge.
Pinner Bridge Club has produced some videos to help its scorers in transitioning from Scorebridge to EBUScore and has kindly shared them via the Forum which is available on the EBU website. They are available here:
The forum has a section specifically for ‘Scoring and other IT questions’, so if you need input from others then that is a good place to ask.
If none of these online resources answers your question, you could email Ian Mitchell, who is responsible for the development and support of EBUScore.
