Bridge Winners Profile for Melanie Manfield
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- Member Since
- May 24, 2011
- Last Seen
- 13 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
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- Ruby Life Master
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- Do you want to be relegated from Bracket A to Bracket B?
- The format of the RRKO in which I played in Reston was just slightly different from what you describe, Art. Bracket 3 had 9 teams. My team played six, 8-board matches. I know that some teams were in three-way matches at some point. We were not among them. Obviously, there ...
- Do you want to be relegated from Bracket A to Bracket B?
- Okay. Well, if anyone knows of any such event within the ACBL at the Regional level (starting with an Open Swiss including everyone before brackets are created), perhaps they will comment about it.
- Do you want to be relegated from Bracket A to Bracket B?
- Yes -- it looks as if the Wilkes-Barre Regional will offer Bracketed Knockouts as described by Ray Yuenger, using the same format as the recent Reston, Virginia Regional. However, I heard last night that there may have been a recent District 4 Regional that did have a Knockout that started with ...
- How to top players feel about bracket-1 KO's being small vs. populated with those playing up?
- We have the group of experts with many MPs, the group of players with or without many MPs who would prefer not to play many boards against experts, and we have the group without enough MPs to be placed in the top bracket who come to a tournament wanting to ...
- What killed American Bridge--a Poll from the Year 2040.
- Hi Ray, I think that each person has to come up with his or her own version! Cal Newport writes that he wasn't sure about whether to include streaming TV, movies, etc., and people urged him to include those (in other words, to abstain from TV, streaming films on ...
- Do you want to be relegated from Bracket A to Bracket B?
- I have not seen 1 day of Swiss to determine brackets (in the mid-Atlantic area/near Washington, D.C.). Where is that happening?
- Do you want to be relegated from Bracket A to Bracket B?
- I agree, plus the word "relegated" has a rather negative connotation.
- What killed American Bridge--a Poll from the Year 2040.
- John N. is reminding me of an experience I had two summers ago. I traveled across the country by train (changing trains in Chicago). There wasn't much wi-fi. I ended up teaching several young people to play bridge (ages ranging from early 30's to late teens. The youngest ...
- What killed American Bridge--a Poll from the Year 2040.
- I agree that often it is a perception of not having the time vs. truly not having the time. A few months ago I read the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (and saw the author speak at the Politics and Prose bookstore in D.C.). While I have not ...
- The importance of understanding how ACBL players feel about bracketing
- Master points affect every tournament player, certainly, one way or another. We are forced to care, because they play a large role in what events we can (or cannot) play in. Whether flying in to Washington, DC, or "just" driving across the Potomac River, players want to know what events ...
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