N° 76 • AUGUST 2026

Staff need to be on site well before the players arrive, and a dedicated team must set up the tables, chairs, bidding boxes, etc. At the end of the event, everything must be dismantled, and returned to base, ready for the next event.

At the 2019 World Youth Championships in Opatija, the then WBF President Gianarrigo Rona asked the Internet Broadcasting Manager Traian Chira if he could design something that would enable all 96 tables at a World Bridge Team Championship to be on camera.

Two years later, history was made in Salsomaggiore Terme when the cameras were used for the first time. It proved to be an invaluable aid to the directing staff, who repeatedly consulted the videos, which demonstrated their worth by resolving numerous cases where the facts were disputed. The cameras can be used in cases where the possibility of unfair play is being investigated. They were consulted more than 100 times and they are now sine qua non for every major event, regardless of the number of tables.

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