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| Jan Martel & Chip Martel WEAK NT; 2/1 ALMOST GAME FORCING; 1!C may be short |
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- Vugraph Player Profiles - What's your "wish list"?
- Thanks, but I really don't deserve the credit. If this happens, BBO will deserve far more thanks than I do.
- Vugraph Player Profiles - What's your "wish list"?
- That's a great idea, if only I could figure out how to do it - the URL doesn't seem to be specific to the player you've searched for. But I'll ask someone who knows more about URLs than I do :)
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- The name of the event was changed from International Team Trials to United States Bridge Championship over 15 years ago. The change was Rena Hetzer's idea, because she hoped that calling it the USBC would result in more publicity. But there's an old saying about leading a horse ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- Probably I wasn't clear. Combining with a Regional doesn't save us much (if any) money. Regionals don't have screens, so we still have to ship and set them up. Ditto for duplicated boards (not that Regionals don't have them but we'd have to have separate ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- Unfortunately, very few hotels have the sort of playing space we want for the KO stages of the USBCs. Even at NABC's, where ACBL has all sorts of clout and goes to big, nice hotels, the late stages of the Vanderbilt & Spingold are very often in unsuitable rooms (by which I mean meeting rooms without bathrooms in the rooms or large ballrooms separated by air walls, which don't provide adequate sound barriers). In St. Louis, the two Vanderbilt Semi-Final matches were in two different buildings in order to get reasonable sized rooms & the bathrooms for one match were a floor below the playing room; those for the other match were in a ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- David, you need to separate out "seeding points" and "Positioning Points," although PPs are an element of seeding points. Teams earn byes ONLY as a result of earning PPs in the immediately preceding USBC, Spingold, Reisinger & Vanderbilt. Thus, although you are of course correct that Chip & Zia are a new partnership, and you are also correct that each of them has maximum ACBL seeding points as a result of their performance with different partners, the Fleisher team's bye to the 2013 USBC Quarterfinal is based on the performance of this exact team in the NABC events, in other words, on performance in events in which Chip & Zia played as a partnership. How many seeding points the team has is irrelevant; they are the #1 seed in the USBC because they did better than any ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- Funding for our International Teams comes from the ACBL International Fund, which is distributed to the USBF and CBF to pass on to the players. Thankfully, that fund has grown over the years, and the teams going to Bali will (almost certainly) receive the full US State Department per diem ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- Steve is correct that International Fund games at clubs support our international teams. But he is wrong that that means the IF money supports the Trials. In fact, that money is used solely to reimburse players on International Teams for part of their expenses to attend the World Championships. I ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- "I wonder if representatives of lower ranked teams had a seat at the table." Definitely. In fact, two of the six or so people who have been most involved in devising the formats are playing in this year's Round Robin. In addition, if I were able to play in ...
- Why aren't you playing in the USBC?
- I'll try. First, the reason for having only the 6 lowest-seeded teams play in the Round Robin is in order to have longer matches between the teams for whom this stage is most likely to be relevant. Yes, that assumes that seeding is accurate and it isn't always ...
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