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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR CHAPTER 4 and 5 OF THE
HANDBOOK JANUARY 2000
INDEX FOR HANDBOOK CHAPTER 4 AND 5 JANUARY 2000
V. AWARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.31
A. Awards to Members, New Members
or Non-Members by ACBL. . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.31&32
B. Computation of Club Championship Awards
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.32
1. Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.32
2. One-section events . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.32
3. Newcomer championships . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.33
4. Invitational and point restricted
championships . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.33
5. Individual events. . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.33
6. Two session events . . . . . . . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.33
VI. CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.33&34
A. Allocation of Sessions. . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
B. Substituting a Charity Session for a
Club
Championship Session. . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
C. Two-Session Charity Club Championships.
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
D. Table Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
E. Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
1. Official ACBL beneficiaries. . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.34
2. Secondary beneficiaries. . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.35
3. Local beneficiaries. . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.35
4. Two-Session events . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.35
F. Charity Club Championship Awards. . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.35&36
G. Reporting Charity Club Championships. .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.36
VII. INTERNATIONAL FUND CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.36
VIII.MEMBERSHIP GAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.36
A. Scheduling a Membership Game. . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
B. Additional Membership Games . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
C. Type of Event . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
D. Eligibility to Play . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
E. Membership Game Director. . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
F. Point Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.37
G. Reporting the Membership Game . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.38
H. Conflicts in Scheduling . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.38
IX. OTHER FREQUENT CLUB EVENTS . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.38
A. Grand National Teams. . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.38
B. North American Pairs. . . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.38-40
C. North American 49er Pairs . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.40
D. Membership/Guest Club Championship. . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.40&41
E. Additional Club Championships . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.41
F. Inter-club Championship Games . . . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.41
G. Super Club Championship . . . . . . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.41
H. North America Bridge Championship
Fund-Raising Events . . . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.41&42
I. Sectional Tournaments Held at Clubs . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.42
SECTION SEVEN: CLUB TEAM EVENTS . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.42
I. TYPES OF EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.42
A. Board-a-Match Teams . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.42
B. Swiss Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.43
1. Win Loss (W/L) . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.43
2. Victory Points (VPS) . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.43&44
3. Board-a-Match (BAM). . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.44
C. Round-Robin Teams . . . . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.44&45
D. Knockout Events . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .CHAPTER.4 pg.45
E. Masterpoint Awards. . . . . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.45&46
1. Match awards . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.45
2. Overall awards . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.46
F. Conditions of Contest . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.46
II. SCHEDULING CLUB TEAM EVENTS. . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.46&47
A. Open Clubs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.47
B. Invitational Clubs and Intermediate
or Newcomer Games . . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.47
C. Industrial Leagues. . . . . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.47
III. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM GAMES . . . . . . .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.48-50
A. Round-Robin and KO Team Championships .
. CHAPTER.4 pg.48&49
B. Round-Robin overall masterpoint awards.
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.49
C. Knockout overall masterpoint awards . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.49
D. Board-a-Match Team Championships. . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.49
E. Swiss Team Championships. . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.49
1. Two-session Swiss Teams by clubs
sanctioned
for two or more games . . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.49
2. Two-session Swiss team co-sponsored
by two different clubs. . . . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.50
SECTION EIGHT: CLUB-UNIT RELATIONSHIPS. . . . .
. . CHAPTER.4 pg.50
CURRENT PRICES AND FEES . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .APPENDIX.G pg.1-5
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 33)
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B. COMPUTATION OF CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS
To facilitate the computation of awards,
charts of club championship
awards for all Open, Invitational/Restricted
and newcomer events
(overall) are shown in Files MPPAIRS, MPSWISS,
MPKOS. Except when ties
occur, the awards given in the charts need no
adjustment and should be
issued as shown. Overall awards for club
championship games in Open
clubs will be 65% of sectional rating. (charts
are in Files MPPAIRS,
MPSWISS, MPKOS.) Second place will be 75% of
first, etc. through a
maximum of six places. Overall awards for
Invitational games,
masterpoint limited games and newcomer games
will use the same
percentages of this chart as they do for
regular club games. All
section awards will be the same as they are
for a regular club game.
Bridge Plus games are not eligible for club
championship games.
FIELDS: The overall award for a club
championship is given for the top
score in an event, without regard to the field
(seating direction) in
which the score was earned. For example, it
is possible that all
overall awards could be won by pairs seated in
the same direction in a
one-session Mitchell event.
In contrast, section awards are given for the
highest scores in each
field without regard to scores in any other
field. Thus, in the above
example, while the East-West field may have
won all the overall awards,
the scores that topped the North-South field
still would earn their full
quota of section awards.
There are two fields per section in pair
events that use a straight
Mitchell progression, but there is only one
field when a Howell or
scrambled movement is used. An individual
event with a Rainbow-type
movement has four fields per section (a
separate field for each position
or direction), but only one field per section
if a Shomate-type (single
winner) movement is used. As noted above,
section awards are issued for
all four fields. (SEE CHAPTER.4, Section Two,
IV for definition of game
movements.)
ONE-SECTION EVENTS: A one-section event that
uses a one-winner movement
may award points for more positions in the
section than it does for the
overall award. For example, in a 13-table
open pair club championship
that uses a scrambled Mitchell movement, there
is only one field. Six
pairs earn overall awards but ten pairs earn
section awards. In this
case, the first six pairs receive awards as
shown on the overall scale,
and the seventh through tenth place pairs
receive awards as shown on the
section award scale.
NEWCOMER CHAMPIONSHIPS: Awards for newcomer
club championship games are
determined from the appropriate newcomer
awards chart.
INVITATIONAL AND POINT RESTRICTED
CHAMPIONSHIPS: Invitational and point
restricted club games must issue masterpoints
according to the
appropriate award charts for club
championships, even though the
particular event may have been open to all
players invited to
participate (such as the members of a country
club, a women's club, or
an industrial league).
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 34)
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INDIVIDUAL EVENTS: As noted in "Fields"
(above), section awards are
earned by all four fields in a Rainbow
movement but only by one field in
a Shomate movement (SEE CHAPTER.4, Section
Two.V for definition of
"movement"). Overall awards remain consistent
and are based on the
total number of tables in the event and the
level of competition.
TWO-SESSION EVENTS: In a two-session club
championship a player receives
the sum of his or her section awards for both
sessions, or the overall
award, whichever is greater, but not both.
When a player receives an
overall award, the number of tables shown on
the award certificate is
the number entered in the event, followed by
an explanatory 2S in
parentheses; that is, Tables 10 (2S). A
two-session event with 10
tables playing in each session would be shown
as 10, not 20, tables.
When the sum of the section awards is greater
than the overall award,
the player is issued a separate certificate
for each session in which
the points were earned. For example, a player
ranks second in his or
her section in the first session and fourth in
the second session. Two
masterpoint certificates must be issued: the
first one filled in with
the section box checked and ranking listed as
second, and the second one
with section box checked and ranking listed as
fourth. All other blanks
are filled in, with the type of event, such as
master pairs or open
pairs, entered in the open space following
event.
The overall awards for two-session events are
50% greater than the
overall awards for one-session events. If for
any reason a two-session
event has a different number of tables in each
session, the smaller size
session becomes the basis of the overall
awards.
VI. CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
In addition to its allocation of club
championship events, each club that
conducts regularly sanctioned game sessions is
entitled to a number of
charity club championship sessions. Charity
club championships award
masterpoints on a scale that is different from
that of an open
championship. In an open game, charity club
championship awards are 85%
of sectional rating. In an invitational game,
these awards are 80% of
those for an open game and the appropriate
percentage is used for the
awards for restricted games. In a newcomer
game the charity club
championship award is 50% of the open game
award. The club that sponsors
a charity club championship is not required to
pay the table fee or the
session fee for this event but must provide to
the appropriate charity a
per table donation as established by ACBL
regulation.
Every club that conducts 18 or more sanctioned
game sessions a year must
hold at least one charity event annually to
benefit the ACBL Charity
Foundation or the Canadian Bridge Federation (CBF)
Charitable Fund (Note
that Canadian clubs may choose to have their
International Fund Game {SEE
CHAPTER.4, Section 6, VII} meet this
requirement). Only the chief
executive officer of ACBL can waive this
requirement. Such an exemption
may be granted when no fund-raising activities
are permitted on the
premises where the club normally meets.
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 35)
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A. ALLOCATION OF SESSIONS
ACBL allocates to a club two charity club
championship sessions per
calendar year for each regularly scheduled
weekly session the club
operates. It also allocates one charity club
championship session per
calendar year to a club that operates a
regularly scheduled game session
less often than weekly (for example, every two
weeks or monthly) but at
least 12 times annually.
B. SUBSTITUTING A CHARITY SESSION FOR A CLUB
CHAMPIONSHIP SESSION
A club may use one or more of its allocated
club championship sessions
as an added charity championship session but
may not use a charity
championship session as an added club
championship session. A weekly
game is entitled to four sessions of club
championship rating and two
sessions of charity championship rating
annually. The club may elect to
conduct only three club championship sessions
in order to schedule three
charity championship sessions. Such
additional charity events receive
only club championship rating.
C. TWO-SESSION CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
Clubs may use their allocated charity club
championship sessions to
conduct one two-session charity club
championship. The same ACBL
regulations that pertain to two-session apply
to two-session charity.
This includes the right to schedule the
charity championship at a time
and place that differs from that of the
regular game.
A club entitled to only one charity club
championship session may
combine one of its club championship sessions
with the charity
championship session in order to schedule a
two-session charity club
championship as above.
Both sessions give masterpoints based on 85%
of sectional rating. The
entire contribution must be made to an
official ACBL beneficiary
(SEE E below).
D. TABLE FEES
A club may charge any table fee that it
chooses.
E. BENEFICIARIES
OFFICIAL ACBL BENEFICIARIES: The first charity
club championship held
each year must name the ACBL Charity
Foundation or the CBF Charitable
Fund (for games held in Canada) as its
principal beneficiary. Under
exceptional circumstances and on written
application, the ACBL Charity
Foundation will permit a club to hold its
first charity game of the year
for a local beneficiary and its next game for
an official ACBL
beneficiary. Of the proceeds from the first
charity game, a minimum
amount per player must be contributed to the
principal beneficiary.
SECONDARY BENEFICIARIES: A club that has
selected a secondary
beneficiary may make whatever contribution it
chooses out of the surplus
proceeds from the charity session. Some local
charities provide playing
space and publicity in exchange for a portion
of the proceeds.
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 36)
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LOCAL BENEFICIARIES: The second charity club
championship may be
conducted on behalf of a local charity, if the
charity is approved as
tax-exempt by the Internal Revenue Service. A
minimum amount per player
must go to the beneficiary.
A club that elects to utilize more than one of
its allocated club
championship sessions for added charity
championship sessions may
conduct its second, fourth, and sixth charity
championships for the
benefit of approved local beneficiaries. The
first, third, and fifth
games, however, must be run for the ACBL
Charity Foundation or the CBF
Charitable Fund. In each instance a minimum
amount per player per
session must go to the beneficiary. Each club
may also hold one
additional charity game per year for the
benefit of the local
organization of the official ACBL charity of
the year.
TWO-SESSION EVENTS: A club may divide the
proceeds from a two-session
event equally between an official ACBL
beneficiary and local
beneficiaries. If the sessions are unequal in
size, the official ACBL
beneficiary receives a minimum amount per
player from the larger session
and the local beneficiary a minimum amount per
player from the smaller
session.
F. CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS
Charity club championship awards for Open
games will be 85% of sectional
rating. Invitational games, masterpoint
limited games and newcomer
games will use the same percentages of the
charity Club Championship
(SEE Files MPPAIRS, MPSWISS) as they do for
Club Championship awards.
These special awards apply only to those games
that fall under the
charity allocation. For example, a regularly
scheduled game session
that meets weekly has an allocation of two
such games, and a regularly
scheduled game session that meets once or
twice a month is allocated one
such game. These rules apply also to charity
events conducted as
invitational and newcomer games.
Subsequent charity championships held by a
club conducting open
sanctioned games will award masterpoints in
accordance with those listed
on the Open Charity club championship charts
for the type of event held.
A club conducting invitational games may hold
allocated charity
championships as open events in which all ACBL
members are allowed to
participate, rather than conduct them as
invitational events. The club
must adequately advertise the fact that the
game will be open. The
rules for awards for an open charity
championship held by an
invitational club are the same as those for an
open club.
Except as provided in the preceding paragraph,
awards for the first two
allocated charity events held by an
invitational or newcomer game may be
found in the Masterpoint Award Charts.
Clubs give awards for subsequent charity
championships in accordance
with the masterpoint award charts appropriate
to the type event held,
including those with masterpoint restrictions.
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 37)
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G. REPORTING CHARITY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
ACBL awards the masterpoints for first
overall. Club managers make all
other awards on the monthly club masterpoint
report.
Clubs must report the results of charity club
championships on the
Charity Club Championship Report form. On
this form they must report
the number of entries and submit the form and
the fees to the ACBL Club
Membership Department. They should submit
this report and the money
separately from the regular Monthly Report
Form. ACBL distributes the
funds to the ACBL Charity Foundation or the
CBF Charitable Fund.
Clubs also must report on the Charity Club
Championship Report form
games conducted for local beneficiaries,
listing the name of the
beneficiary and the net amount contributed.
In this case, however, they
should send the contribution directly to the
charity. ACBL waives all
table and session fees for sanctioned charity
events held by clubs.
VII. INTERNATIONAL FUND CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
In addition to its allotment of club
championships and charity club
championships, each weekly session may hold an
annual one-session club
championship for the benefit of the ACBL
International Fund (not to be
confused with the ACBL-wide International Fund
game).
The club sets the entry fee for this event.
When filing the report of
the results of this event with ACBL, the club
must remit a minimum fee
per player for the benefit of the International
Fund.
The club should handle reporting the results of
the game and the issuance
of masterpoint awards in the same manner it
handles these items for
charity club championships (SEE CHAPTER.4,
Section Six VII.G). The
awards are of the same amount and are based on
the rules established for
an allocated club charity session (SEE
CHAPTER.4, Section Six-VI.F). ACBL
waives the table and session fees for this
event.
Canadian clubs may hold one International Fund
Game per year benefitting
the CBF to meet the mandatory annual charity
event requirement.
VIII. MEMBERSHIP GAMES
Each club that operates a minimum of 18
regularly scheduled sanctioned
game sessions under one sanction during the
year is entitled to conduct a
membership game. Only clubs, not units, may
conduct membership games.
Players can pay their dues just prior to the
game and become eligible to
play.
A. SCHEDULING A MEMBERSHIP GAME
A club may schedule a membership game any time
during the year, as long
as the dates do not conflict with the dates of
sectional or higher-rated
tournaments or qualifying games for the NAP,
the GNT, or the North
American 49er Pairs (NA49erP) which are being
held in the same
community. The session designated for the
game must be one for which
the club is sanctioned. A club entitled to
hold more than one
membership game must schedule each one on a
different session (for
example, not two Friday nights).
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 38)
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A club may change the playing site of a
membership game from that of its
regular playing site to another location by
obtaining prior written
approval from the unit that has jurisdiction
over the new site.
Club managers should publicize the dates and
locations of their
membership games in advance.
B. ADDITIONAL MEMBERSHIP GAMES
The number of membership games a club is
allotted is proportionate to
the overall club activity. ACBL measures this
activity by noting the
number of regularly scheduled weekly games the
club operates. A club
sanctioned for and conducting one through five
game sessions a week may
hold one membership game; for six through 10
game sessions per week, two
membership games; and for 11 or more game
sessions per week, three
membership games.
C. TYPE OF EVENT
A membership game must be a one-session
event. Usually it is an open
pair contest. However, a club may conduct any
type of standard event it
deems appropriate for its players (SEE
CHAPTER.4, Section Six-III).
D. ELIGIBILITY TO PLAY
Only Life Masters and paid-up ACBL members are
eligible to play in
membership games. Before the game begins, the
director should make it
clear to all participants that if an
ineligible player enters, neither
the player nor his or her eligible partner
will receive point awards.
E. MEMBERSHIP GAME DIRECTOR
Non-playing directors are encouraged but not
required for games having
not more than one section of 17 tables or
less). The membership game is
operated exactly the same way as a club
championship. If using
ACBLscore, this game should be included on the
masterpoint disk
submitted at the end of the month.
F. POINT AWARDS
Point awards in the membership game are based
on sectional rating. Only
ACBL may issue the awards. Open games receive
full sectional rating,
Invitational/Restricted games receive 80% of
sectional rating, and
newcomer games receive 50% of sectional
rating.
G. REPORTING THE MEMBERSHIP GAME
The club manager must report the game results
on the ACBL Membership
Game Report form within 48 hours of the
conclusion of the event. The
ACBL Club Membership Department supplies this
form along with the yearly
club supplies. The player number of every
player entitled to an award
must appear on this form and new member and
reinstated member dues
submitted along with this report.
Fees due ACBL for this game are the same as
the fees for a club
masterpoint session, and should be remitted
with the Monthly Report
Form.
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 39)
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H. CONFLICTS IN SCHEDULING
A membership game may not be run at the same
time as an ACBL-wide event,
a sectional tournament, or a regional
tournament if its playing site is
located within 25 miles of the playing site of
the higher-rated
tournament.
IX. OTHER FREQUENT CLUB EVENTS
Events that are not specific club games are
often held in clubs. Club
managers should be familiar with the general
operation of these events.
For example, unit championships and ACBL-wide
events often are held in
clubs (SEE Chapter 6), as are the initial
qualifying stages of the NAP
and GNT, which are unit and district events.
A. GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS
Throughout ACBL, except in Canada, which holds
the Canadian National
Team competition, the Grand National Teams is
divided into three
flights: Flight A (open), Flight A (0-5000),
Flight B (0-2000
masterpoints), and Flight C (non-Life Master
with fewer than 500
masterpoints). The CBF may qualify three
teams from the 0 to 5000
flight, 0-1500 flight, and the non-Life Master
flight to the North
American final of the GNT. Should three teams
be qualified, one from
each flight must be a Canadian team residing
in District 18 or District
19. The district has the option of conducting
any fair bridge
competition it chooses to select a winning
team for each flight, which
is then entitled to play in the National
Finals at the Summer NABC.
District and Unit GNT Coordinators work with
the clubs. Sometimes a GNT
club round qualifying is scheduled, but
participation by an individual
club is optional.
A district may permit each club within its
area to hold one
sectional-rated event (for as many game
sessions as the club has
sanctioned) as a fund raiser for the Grand
National Teams or the
Canadian National Team Championship. Each
district sets the amount its
clubs remit to it, to a maximum of $6.00 per
table.
B. NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS
The North American Pairs is divided into three
flights: Flight A (open),
Flight B (0-2000 masterpoints), and Flight C
(non-Life Master with fewer
than 500 masterpoints). The club qualifying
rounds for all NAP flights
are held in June, July, and August. A club
may conduct qualifying
events in each flight for every weekly game
sanctioned during these
months.
If the games are held as a stratified event, a
club may use all
allocations for Flights A, B, and C, for a
maximum of nine games in a
month. If there is a separate Non-LM
qualifying game, it may be
stratified as 0-20, 20-100, 100-500 (non-LM).
A club may move the site of its NAP qualifying
game to accommodate
increased attendance, but the club must hold
the event at the same time
as one of its regular sanctioned game
sessions.
CHAPTER.4 (PAGE 40)
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ACBL issues report forms and certificates of
qualification for NAP
events. Clubs not using ACBLscore must return
the report form to ACBL
within 48 hours of the event. ACBLscore users
must return the financial
report and fees within 48 hours of the
conclusion of the event and the
masterpoints be included on the masterpoint
disk at the end of the
month. Each club must schedule its NAP game
on one of its sanctioned
sessions (exceptions can be approved by the
unit) within the specified
month for qualification. Clubs entitled to
two or more games must
schedule them on different sanctioned sessions
(for example, not two
consecutive Friday nights).
ACBL recommends that games of 18 or more
tables be divided into two or
more sections. Duplicated boards across all
sections are desirable but
not mandatory. A minimum of 22 boards must be
played, and all games
should be seeded.
ACBL issues all masterpoints earned at NAP
events. A club level
qualifying event must be a one-session open
pair, conducted by a
non-playing director with club or higher
rating. In emergencies,
substitutes may play up to 50% of the boards.
Substitutes who play more
than 50% of the boards acquire the rights of
the original contestants.
Points are sectional rated.
An invitational club may participate and may
qualify players for the
unit level competition. Masterpoint awards
for invitational flights are
all black and are equivalent to 65% of
sectional rating. With prior
unit approval, an invitational club may open
its games to all ACBL
members, with players earning the same
masterpoint awards as they would
at open clubs. Before approval is granted,
however, the unit must be
satisfied that the club will adequately
advertise the fact that the game
will be open. If a unit refuses permission
for an open game, a club may
appeal the unit's decision to the district
organization.
Players may participate in club level NAP
competitions outside their
home districts. These players will receive
any masterpoints earned and
qualify for the next level of play in their
home district.
At a club level qualifying game, all eligible
individuals who earn
masterpoints or finish in the top half of the
field, and any individuals
who score 50% or better, earn qualification to
play at the unit level.
For the unit level competition, both members
of the pair must play in
their home district. In addition, at least
one player from each pair
must be a member of, or have written
permission from, the unit
sponsoring the game. No player may enter more
than one unit level
competition per flight.
All participants at the unit level must be
ACBL members in good
standing. Non-members may join ACBL at the
time they register to play.
To accommodate non-members and others who do
not wish to play in the NAP
event, a club may conduct a regular game at
the same time as the
qualifying event.
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C. NORTH AMERICAN 49ER PAIRS
The North American 49er Pairs is an annual
event. Games are held only
at the club level during the month of
September.
Only players who hold fewer than 50
masterpoints may participate.
Appropriate forms and conditions of contest
are sent to every club.
Clubs may run as many NA49erP games as they
wish, whether or not they
have regular sanctioned games of any type
scheduled during the session
of the NA49erP games. The only exception is
that such games may not
conflict with sanctioned regularly held 0-50
games in the local area.
Two or more clubs may co-sponsor an NA49erP
event.
The club must submit the tournament report and
recap sheets (or
photocopies of same) and the appropriate
sanction fee to the ACBL. ACBL
issues masterpoint awards based on 45% of
sectional open pair rating
(black points).
To receive district honors, members of the
partnership must be ACBL
members and must be playing in their home
district. Non-ACBL members
may participate and earn masterpoints but are
ineligible for any honors.
Players who join ACBL at the time they
register to play in the NA49erP
event are eligible for honors. ACBL
membership applications and fees
collected at this game must accompany the
tournament report form.
ACBL requires a minimum of two-and-one-half
tables to issue masterpoints
for this game. Only games of three or more
tables will be considered in
determining district winners. Games are
ranked by percentage (computed
by ACBL).
D. ADDITIONAL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
A Club which recruits ten new members earns a
club championship awarding
sectional-rated black points in addition to
regularly allowed club
championships.
E. INTER-CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
Clubs may use their quarterly club
championship sanction to hold
combined games including two or more clubs not
necessarily within the
same unit. Each participating club must use
their club championship
allotment and clubs may schedule as many of
these games as they have
allotted. Overall awards are based on the
entire field and the same
hands are to be used by participating clubs.
This game is coordinated
by the unit(s) in which the clubs are located
and all clubs in the
unit(s), sanctioned for the session the game
is held, must be allowed to
participate. This game must be sanctioned by
ACBL at least 60 days in
advance of the event.
F. SUPER CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
A super club championship is awarded to a club
that participated in the
past calendar year in at least seven of the
following nine programs:
1. Master/Non-Master or Member/Guest games
2. GNT or CNTC club games*
3. NAOP and COPC games
4. 49er Pairs
5. ACBL Instant Matchpoint or World Wide
Pairs Championship
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6. International Fund or ACBL-wide Charity
game
7. STaC games*
8. Newcomer program including lessons
9. Recruited ACBL members as follows:
3 - where unit membership is less
than 200
5 - where unit membership is 201-500
10 - where unit membership is over 500
*If unit or district does not schedule
these events, the requirement
for holding these games is met.
Overall masterpoint awards are
sectional-rated red points
G. NORTH AMERICAN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP
FUND-RAISING EVENTS
ACBL allocates to each district one
sectional-rated NABC fund-raising
game in each of the three years prior to a
North American Bridge
Championship held within the district. The
district schedules a week
for the event, and ACBL sends a report form to
all clubs within the
district advising them that the events may be
held during their regular
meeting times. Clubs may hold the same number
of these sessions as
their allocated number of membership games. A
participating club must
remit a sanction fee per table to ACBL with
the report form. ACBL
retains the normal sectional sanction fee per
table and sends the
remainder to the district NABC Hospitality
Fund.
These events award sectional-rated black
points, with session and
overall awards at each site based on the
number of tables in play at
that site. Open games earn full sectional
rating.
Invitational/restricted games earn 80% of
sectional rating, and newcomer
games earn 50%. If the club chooses, these
events may be stratified.
H. SECTIONAL TOURNAMENTS HELD AT CLUBS
Clubs may also participate in Sectional
Tournaments at Clubs (STaCs) and
the qualifying rounds of a Progressive
Sectional when these are
sponsored by the club's unit. (SEE Chapter 6)
I. JUNIOR MONTH
The month of February is designated as Junior
month. During this month
each club is authorized to hold
sectional-rated black point Junior Fund
games. All clubs may run as many fund games
as they have games. Up to
four Junior Fund Games may be run in any other
month. The additional
fees (see Appendix G) go to the ACBL Junior
Fund in the USA and the
Canadian Junior Fund in Canada (Canadian
dollars). Bermuda and Mexico
fees can go to either of the above funds or an
equivalent fund.
J. CLUB APPRECIATION TEAM GAME
The month of October, each club may run one of
their regularly scheduled
games as a Club Appreciation Team Game. Each
club will be entitled to
one such team game regardless of how many
sanctioned sessions they have.
This game will be sectionally-rated and award
black points. In
addition, 5% of all masterpoints will be gold
to a maximum of .25 per
individual winner.
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K. STATE, PROVINCE, COUNTRY (SPC)
CHAMPIONSHIPS
This is an event in which each participating
ACBL SPC may name a champion
in each category by means of a fair competition
that is not necessarily
the same from SPC to SPC. The type of event
and conditions of contest
must be submitted to and approved by ACBL
Management. There will not be
a national final. The event may be flighted.
With ACBL Management
approval, this event or any portion may be run
through an online service.
At SPC option, each flight may be played at
three or fewer levels ACBL
rules and regulations apply to all play in the
event and supercede
special SPC conditions in cases of conflict.
SECTION SEVEN: CLUB TEAM EVENTS
Four types of team events have proven popular
at clubs: board-a-match,
Swiss, round-robin, and knockout. Clubs may
use all of these team events
as part of their regular masterpoint game
schedule and for club
championships.
A session may consist of as few as 18 boards.
A club may not conduct
more than one session during a given play
period (morning, afternoon, or
evening). The only exception is a club that is
sanctioned to hold a
session on New Year's Eve (December 31). It
may schedule two sessions of
play that night: one to begin before midnight
and the other after.
I. TYPES OF TEAM EVENTS
A. BOARD-A-MATCH TEAMS
Any number of teams may play in board-a-match
events. While
board-a-match games are better suited for
single-session events, clubs
may use them for two-session club
championships.
The term board-a-match refers to a method of
scoring. However, through
common usage board-a-match has come to refer
to the movement used. The
overall winner in a board-a-match contest is
the team that wins the most
matches in which each board played is a match,
with one matchpoint
available on each board. Ideally, each team
should play against all the
other teams. Thus, the number of boards
played in each round is
determined by the number of teams in the
event.
The usual board-a-match movement is similar to
the Mitchell movement
used in pair games. However, there are
significant differences because
each team has an E/W and a N/S pair. Club
directors should become
thoroughly familiar with board-a-match
movements before undertaking the
operation of such games.
The event is structured so that the boards
played by the N/S pair of
Team 1 versus the E/W pair of Team 2 are
subsequently played by the E/W
pair of Team 1 versus the N/S pair of Team 2.
The team with the best
raw score on a board earns one point. On a
board in which there is a
tie in the raw score, each team earns one half
a point. For example, if
the N/S pair of a team is +120 on a board and
its teammates are 110,
the board is scored as a win (1 point) for
that team.
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B. SWISS TEAMS
The Swiss team game is probably the most
popular team event. The Swiss
movement may be used in single-session regular
masterpoint games or in
one or two-session club championships. The
term Swiss refers to a type
of movement in which contestants with similar
records play against each
other as the event progresses.
Although clubs may use a Swiss team movement
when as few as five teams
participate, ACBL recommends a round-robin
movement when fewer than
eight teams participate.
A Swiss team game may be scored in one of
three ways:
1. WIN/LOSS: This scoring method
determines the net raw scores of
each board and then these scores are
converted to International
Matchpoints (IMPs), in accordance with the
internationally approved
conversion scale (see Law 78 in LAWS OF
DUPLICATE CONTRACT BRIDGE or
the ACBL Convention Card).
To determine the winner of the match, the
IMP results on all boards
are added. The team that emerges with a net
plus wins the match and is
awarded the appropriate masterpoints. A
margin of as little as 1 IMP
is sufficient for winning the masterpoints
for the match. If the net
result after adding the IMPs is zero, the
match is a tie and the
masterpoints for the match are divided
equally between the two teams.
A slight variation in the Win/Loss scoring
method considerably reduces
the potential for ties. Using this
win/loss scoring variation, a team
is not credited with a full win unless it
wins its match by at least 3
IMPs. A team that wins by 1 or 2 IMPs is
credited with 3/4 of a win,
with the other 1/4 going to the losing
team. Pairings and overall
standings are based on this scoring - 1,
3/4, 1/2, 1/4 and 0 per
match. However, the winning team gets the
full allotment of
masterpoints for winning the match, even if
it wins by only 1 or 2
IMPs. The losing team receives no
masterpoints.
2. VICTORY POINTS (VPS): Victory point
scoring uses the net result
in IMPs translated to victory points
according to a predetermined
scale (the two approved scales appear on
the ACBL convention card and
in the file MPSWISS.)
Victory point scoring has some unusual
factors. Teams that lose two
matches in win/loss Swiss teams have little
chance of placing overall;
teams that lose two matches in VP Swisses
still have a chance to win
the event. The team that has the best
win/loss record in win/loss
Swisses is the winner; the team with the
best win/loss record in VP
Swiss teams is not necessarily the
winner---it is not even guaranteed
a place in the overall standings. This is
possible in a situation
where the team with the best win/loss
record wins its matches by small
margins and thereby earns fewer victory
points than another team that
wins its matches by wide margins and earns
lots of victory points.
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Pairings for the first round should be
random irrespective of the
scoring method used. In subsequent rounds
pairing should be done in
such a way that teams with similar records
play each other, always
taking into consideration that teams may
not compete against teams
they have played in an earlier round.
Using victory points, first-round pairings
still are random. However,
pairings for subsequent rounds are based on
the victory point holdings
of the teams, not on their win/loss
record. The team with the net
plus in IMPs still is the winner of the
masterpoints for each match.
However, overall standings are based on
total victory points, not wins
and losses.
3. BOARD-A-MATCH (BAM): Board-a-match
scoring compares the net raw
score on each board and gives a win, tie
(identical scores), or a loss
for each one. These scores are accumulated
with the winner of each
match receiving the match masterpoint
awards, and the overall winner
is the team with the most points. This
method of scoring is rarely
used, since it resembles a matchpoint pairs
event but requires the
formation of a team.
ACBL offers a free pamphlet, "Swiss Teams,"
which is available on
request from the ACBL Club Membership
Department.
C. ROUND-ROBIN TEAMS
Round-robin events are especially suitable for
a small number of teams
(as few as three) and for contests that may
run over several sessions.
In a complete round-robin each team plays
against all other teams
entered in the event.
To qualify for overall awards, each team must
play against at least 75%
of the other teams in the event. If the event
runs for more than three
sessions, the club uses the appropriate
multiplier (SEE File MPSWISS).
If all teams entered in the contest play
simultaneously, each such
period (as in a pair game) is a session.
There can be no more than one
session of play during a given time period
(morning, afternoon or
evening) and each team must play at least 18
boards.
A club may allow two teams to play their match
at a time convenient to
both if the club is sanctioned to hold a game
at that time. In such
cases, a session is based on the number of
matches (18 or more boards) a
typical team plays. For example, a club has a
round-robin event in
which each team is scheduled to play a
28-board match against all other
teams in the contest. Ten teams enter. The
club has ruled that all
first-round matches must be completed by April
1, second-round matches
by April 15, and so forth. The captains of
the opposing teams may
arrange to play their matches at convenient
times sanctioned by the
club. Since each team will play nine matches,
although all teams may
not be playing at the same time, this is
considered a nine-session
event. Thus overall awards are based on the
six-session point award
charts.
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Many clubs find it convenient to conduct this
type of event
simultaneously with their regular weekly
games. There are some patrons
of almost every club who prefer team play to
the more usual pairs
competitions. By scheduling round-robins to
run along with their
regular games, clubs can provide varied
programs for their clientele.
Any scoring method discussed for Swiss teams
may be used to score and
determine overall winners in a round-robin
team event. ACBL recommends
the use of IMPs, with or without victory
points. The method the club
uses for determining the overall winner must
be the same as that which
it uses to decide the winner of each
individual match. The club reports
these points along with all others earned on
the Club Masterpoint
Report.
D. KNOCKOUT EVENTS
A knockout event consists of a series of
matches in which the winners
advance and the losers are eliminated. This
progression continues until
only one team remains---the winner.
This type of competition works best when the
original entry is a power
of two---2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. Such fields
permit all head-to-head
matches between two teams---the best kind of
match possible. However,
any number of teams can be accommodated
through the use of three-way
matches. (At one time a system of byes was
used to reduce the field to
a power of two, but this method is rarely used
today.)
Three-way matches can be utilized in either of
two ways - either two
teams advance and one is eliminated or one
team advances and two are
eliminated. Consider an original entry of 18
teams where it is desired
to reduce the field to eight teams for the
next session. Six
head-to-head matches would be set up, each
producing one team for the
next session. In addition there would be two
three-way matches, with
only the winner to advance. The two survivors
plus the six victors in
head-to-head competition provide eight teams
for the next session.
Now consider an original entry of 14 teams
where it is desired to reduce
the field to eight teams. Four head-to-head
matches would be set up,
each producing one winner. In addition there
would be two three-way
matches, each of which would produce two
winners. Once again this
produces an eight team field for the next
session.
Since a team is out of the event when it loses
a match, the number of
boards per match should require approximately
the same time for play as
a regular club session. The minimum
requirement is 18 boards. ACBL
recommends the use of IMP scoring. However,
the club may use total
points (raw score not converted to IMPs).
The club bases masterpoint awards for knockout
events on the number of
teams entered in the event, the class of the
game, and the number of
boards played.
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E. MASTERPOINT AWARDS
MATCH AWARDS: In an event in which a team
plays at least five boards
against another team, the winner receives
awards that are based on the
number of boards played in the match and the
level of play (open,
invitational, newcomer). The point value of
the awards is shown on the
Masterpoint Award Charts.
OVERALL AWARDS: Overall awards for Swiss team
games are the same as for
pair games. For board-a-match teams the
awards are 1.10 of a pair game.
Awards for knockout and round-robin teams are
shown on the Masterpoint
Award Charts. Players eligible to receive
overall masterpoint awards
are entitled to the sum of their match awards
or the overall award,
whichever is greater, but not both.
In events of one or two sessions, eligible
players of five or six member
teams each receive awards based on percentage
of participation. In
events of three or more sessions, all eligible
team members receive full
awards.
F. CONDITIONS OF CONTEST
Complete conditions of contest should be
prepared for all team events.
For extended (three or more sessions)
round-robin and knockout events,
the club should submit the conditions of
contest to ACBL for approval at
least 45 days before play begins. Once ACBL
approves the conditions of
contest, the club may use the same conditions
of contest for subsequent
events of the same type without further
approval.
The conditions of contest must include but are
not limited to the
following:
- in a one-session event with a
board-a-match-type movement, there must
be four members on a team. In other
approved team events, the
sponsoring clubs may allow as many as six
members on a team. ACBL
recommends that sponsoring clubs permit
teams to have four, five, or
six members.
- Each team member must play at least 40% of
the boards and participate
in at least 50% of the matches played by the
team to be eligible for
overall masterpoint awards.
- A substitute may not be a member of another
team.
- A player may be a member of only one team in
an event.
II. SCHEDULING CLUB TEAM EVENTS
A club may hold round-robin and/or knockout
events simultaneously with
its regular club games. These events may be
concluded in a single
session or they may extend over several
sessions.
A club may conduct single-session Swiss and/or
board-a-match events
during any sanctioned game session. Some clubs
schedule these events at
regular intervals to add variety to their
programs. For example, a club
that meets on Monday evenings may announce that
a Swiss team event will
replace its regular pair game on the last
Monday of the month in those
months in which there are five Mondays. It is
proper for a club to
devote its entire program, or any portion
thereof, to team play.
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If a club conducts a team game or a series of
team games at a different
time from that of its regular games, the
session or sessions must be
sanctioned by ACBL and the appropriate fees and
information forwarded to
ACBL before the games are held. Under such
circumstances, the team game
becomes a separately scheduled regular game (or
session) of the club and
qualifies for club championships as does any
other regularly scheduled
game.
When a club conducts a team game simultaneously
with its regular game,
there is no additional game fee for the team
game; however, the per table
charge still applies. When a team game does
not run simultaneously with
the regular game, the per game and per table
fees both apply.
The club issues all masterpoint awards. When
match awards are
authorized, the club may accumulate the sum of
these awards for each
player and issue the awards on single
certificates at the conclusion of
the event. Players receive either the sum of
their match awards or the
overall award, whichever is greater, but not
both.
A. OPEN CLUBS
Team events sponsored by open clubs must be
open to all ACBL members in
good standing who fall within eligibility
rules established by the club
for the event. An open club may restrict
participation in an event to a
limited number of teams, in which case it must
advertise that fact and
accept entries on a first-come first-served
basis. An open club may
allow participation only by players who hold
more than a stipulated
number of masterpoints. The magnitude of the
masterpoint awards is not
affected by these limitations. An open club
also may allow only those
players who hold fewer than a stipulated
number of masterpoints to
participate, or it may place masterpoint
restrictions on the makeup of
teams. For example, a club could decide that
no more than two Life
Masters may be on the same team, that at least
two members of each team
must have fewer than 50 masterpoints, or that
a partnership may not be
comprised of two Life Masters. When these or
similar restrictions are
imposed, awards are based on those for
Restricted games.
B. INVITATIONAL CLUBS AND INTERMEDIATE OR
NEWCOMER GAMES
Regulations for invitational clubs and
restricted or newcomer games are
the same as those for open clubs, with two
exceptions: (1) the
sponsoring club may set its own rules for
eligibility, and (2) awards
for one and two session events are as noted on
the appropriate point
award charts.
C. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUES
The same rules that regulate invitational
clubs regulate team games
sponsored by industrial leagues, except when
matches are played at
approximately the same time but in several
locations. In that case,
only a single sanction is required.
ACBL allots an industrial league one club
championship session for every
12 regular sessions it conducts, to a maximum
of four such championships
annually for each sanctioned session.
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The nature of an industrial league may warrant
variations from the
accepted standard forms of bridge
competitions. ACBL will help a group
design a program that fits its needs. Groups
should direct inquiries to
the ACBL Club Membership Department.
III. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM GAMES
Each regularly scheduled and sanctioned club
game may use one of its
allocated club championships to conduct an
IMP-scored knockout or
round-robin team event, even though the club
may normally conduct only
pair games. Although IMP-scored events usually
require several sessions
to complete, they are charged against the
club's club championship
allocation as only one session. When planning
its club championship
schedule, a club should consider the possible
negative aspects of
round-robin and knockout play. Normally,
round-robin games require
several sessions of play. Often it is
difficult for team members to
commit themselves to play for an extended
time. A disadvantage of
knockout games is that losers are automatically
eliminated from the
event.
For these reasons, a club may prefer to run
one-or two-session club
championships as Swiss or board-a-match team
events. In these cases,
each session used counts as a session of the
club's club championship
allocation.
If the event has masterpoint restrictions
(except restrictions that limit
participation to players who hold more than a
stipulated number of
masterpoints), or restrictions on the
composition of partnerships or
teams, the masterpoint awards are computed on
the basis of a restricted
masterpoint game.
At the conclusion of the event, the sponsoring
club issues all awards.
Players are entitled to either their overall
awards or the sum of their
match (or session) awards, whichever is
greater, but not both.
Masterpoint awards for club championships are
given in the appropriate
point award chart.
A club that conducts only round-robin or
knockout team games during a
specific session is eligible to conduct four
club championship sessions
annually. They may be held as one-session pair
games or as a team game
with club championship rating. Each such
session is chargeable against
the club's club championship allocation. The
club may designate a
round-robin or knockout team event completed
during a calendar quarter as
a club championship. In this case, the event
is charged as one session
of the club's club championship allocation even
though the event was run
over several sessions. In no case may a club
complete more than one club
championship during the same calendar quarter
of the year.
Per game session and per table sanction fees
are assessed. If the club
championship is conducted simultaneously with
another game at the club,
the club pays only one game fee, regardless of
the number of different
games being held. ACBL charges the table fee
for every table in play in
all games conducted during a game session.
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The club must report sanction fees on the
regular Monthly Report Form and
must include payment when submitting the form
to ACBL. When a club
conducts an event in which matches are played
over several game sessions,
it must list each session under the proper
session number on the form.
A. ROUND-ROBIN AND KNOCKOUT TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The minimum number of teams required for a
round-robin team championship
is three; for a knockout team championship,
five.
With nine or more teams, a club may conduct
one or two qualifying
sessions of Swiss or round-robin competition.
The use of qualifying
rounds is subject to the following
regulations: when there are fewer
than 9 teams, qualifying is not permitted;
with 9 to 31 teams, at least
8 must be qualified; with 32 to 63 teams, at
least 16 must be qualified;
and with more than 63 teams, at least 32 must
be qualified.
When a Swiss or round-robin team competition
is used to qualify teams to
a further competition, overall masterpoint
awards are based on the
greater of a) Swiss award based on the number
of original entries and
the number of sessions, or b) the knockout
award based on the number of
qualifying teams. These awards are issued
from the appropriate charts.
There are no overall awards for qualifying
rounds; however, the club
does issue appropriate match awards.
ROUND-ROBIN OVERALL MASTERPOINT AWARDS: These
awards are based on the
number of sessions played or on the following,
whichever is less: three
teams, maximum awards from the two-session
chart: four teams, maximum
awards from the three-session chart; five
teams, maximum awards from the
four-session chart; six teams, maximum awards
from the five-session
chart; seven or more teams, maximum awards
from the six-session chart.
KNOCKOUT OVERALL MASTERPOINT AWARDS: These
awards are based on the
number of teams that enter the event and the
number of boards they play
per match. If individual matches consist of
fewer than 18 boards, the
club computes the awards as though the event
were a round-robin.
Overall masterpoint awards for knockout events
are shown in the
appropriate chart.
B. BOARD-A-MATCH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The minimum number of teams required for a
board-a-match team
championship event is three. The event may
have one or two sessions.
C. SWISS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The minimum number of teams required for a
Swiss team championship is
three; however, if there are fewer than eight
teams, ACBL recommends
the use of the round-robin team format. The
duration of the event is
one or two sessions. There are several
special regulations that apply
only to two-session Swiss team club
championships-they do not apply to
any other type of event.
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TWO-SESSION SWISS TEAMS BY CLUBS SANCTIONED
FOR TWO OR MORE GAMES: A
club holding two or more games per week, and
entitled to one or more
sessions of club championship events for each
game, may conduct a
two-session Swiss team club championship at
different sessions (game
times), with one session of club championship
charged against each game
session. For example, a club operating both a
Saturday afternoon
(session 17) and a Saturday evening sanctioned
game (session 18) may
conduct a two session Swiss team club
championship with one session on
Saturday afternoon and the other on Saturday
evening. One session is
charged against game number 17 and the other
against game number 18.
Thus, a club could operate a number of two
session Swiss team club
championships each year if it is willing to
forgo the various pair event
club championships for those game sessions.
TWO-SESSION SWISS TEAMS CO-SPONSORED BY TWO
DIFFERENT CLUBS: Two
separate and distinct clubs may band together
to co-sponsor a
two-session Swiss team club championship, with
one session of club
championship charged against each club. For
example, a Tuesday night
club and a Friday night club decide to
co-sponsor a two-session Swiss
team club championship. The first session is
run in the Tuesday club's
quarters, and the second session in the Friday
club's quarters, with
both sessions held at regular club times.
Both clubs are mutually
responsible for issuing all awards. Each club
reports the session held
in its quarters on its Monthly Report Form and
remits the standard game
payment plus a per table fee.
SECTION EIGHT: CLUB-UNIT RELATIONSHIPS
The primary concern of ACBL management is the
welfare of its members as
it relates to the game of bridge. Thus,
regulations have been
established by ACBL to protect the interests of
its members. However,
these regulations are only in force during ACBL
sanctioned masterpoint
games.
ACBL has authorized the units to investigate
reports of club violations
of the rules during a sanctioned masterpoint
game. The units must,
however, respect and protect the rights of
clubs as fully as they respect
the rights of individuals charged with
offenses. If a club is found
guilty of a violation after a proper
investigation and hearing, the unit
must report the matter to ACBL. Only ACBL
(subject to prior action by
the respective unit and/or district) can assess
discipline against a club
for a violation of ACBL regulations.
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