FESTIVAL OF BRIDGE 2024 – LCBA SIMULTANEOUS PAIRS
As part of the national Festival of Bridge, Lancashire is holding a Simultaneous Pairs competition on Tuesday 10th September 2024. This event is open to any LCBA Affiliated Clubs to enter, free of charge.
Details
● Clubs enter by completing the online form – please click HERE. This is a FREE event for clubs, their only cost being the normal club UMS charge (44p per player). LCBA is paying for everything else including £80 in prizes. Clubs are free to charge table money or not as they wish.
● The Festival of Bridge is focussed on fundraising for Cancer Research (UK) and clubs may therefore wish to donate the table money and/or hold a separate collection for the charity. This is totally a decision for the club, and any money collected can be donated via this link HERE.
● Heats can take place at any time on the Tuesday, to suit the club entering.
● Free commentaries, by England international, Jeremy Dhondy, will be available on the LCBA website from Wednesday 11th September - please tell the players.
● There are up to 28 boards available and at least 18 must be played. Clubs can choose to play any number, 18 to 28, with any movement that suits.
● PBN/DUP dealing files will be sent to the nominated club contact on, or around, Monday 2nd September, allowing plenty of time for the boards to be dealt. These files must be confidential to the nominated contact and people dealing. Any club that cannot handle DUP or PBN files should tick the appropriate box on the entry form, and they will receive a PDF file of the deals to make up by hand.
● Clubs should score their heat but must not make their results public until the next day. The XML file must be sent to Oliver Cowan by email at oliver@hlcrecruitment.co.uk, ideally on the Tuesday but if not then the Wednesday.
● The results of the club heat should also be uploaded to the EBU as normal. A normal club UMS charge will be applied, and Master Points awarded.
● Oliver will re-score the event over the whole field and put the county-wide results on the LCBA website.
● Master Points will be awarded for the club county-wide event at District Scale (1.5 times the normal Club Scale). Players may therefore get 2 Master Point awards, one for their club heat and one for the county-wide event.
● Prizes for the county-wide event: First pair (2x£20), Second pair (2x£10), Highest pair, both players NGS less than 10 on the LCBA database on the day of the event (2x£10).
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