Maine Bridge sponsors sectional tournaments on weekends throughout the year. Saturday consists of Open and 299'er pairs games; Sunday normally consists of a bracketed Swiss teams* event.
Tournaments occur in the Portland, Central Maine and Eastern Maine and have included the Spring Tonic Sectional, Tom Tarbox Memorical Sectional, Central Maine Secctional Lobsterfest Sectional, Indian Summer Sectional and the Eastern Maine Sectional. Our State Championship with three pairs sessions over two days in the open flight, and two sessions on Saturday only in the 299'er flight is held at the end of the year.
Tournaments for 2024 & 2025!
Tournament dates for 2024 & 2025 have been approved by the Board. Chairs for the tournaments are being finalized and ACBL sanctions are in process.
Sectionals for 2024
Spring Tonic, Portland March 23-24
Tom Tarbox Memorial, Rockland May 18-19
Central Maine, Hallowell July 13-14
Lobsterfest, Portland Aug 10-11
Indian Summer, Portland Sept 14-15
Eastern Maine, Bangor Oct 5-6
Sectionals for 2025
Spring Tonic, Portland March 22-23
Tom Tarbox Memorial, Rockland May 17-18
Central Maine, Hallowell July 12-13
Lobsterfest, Portland Aug 9-10
Indian Summer, Portland Sept 13-14
Eastern Maine, Bangor Oct 4-5
Scheduling of the Maine State Tournaments for 2024 & 2025 is pending discussion by the Board on their fiscal viability.
Proof of COVID vaccination is required!
*From the ACBL: "A Swiss Teams event is a partial Round-robin setup in such a way that winners play winners and losers play losers. It is based on the Swiss concept that governs play in most chess tournaments. After each round, the game directors sort the team records and set up new matches between teams of approximately equal records. In general, teams are not permitted to play against each other more than once. The length of matches is determined by the size of the field and the number of sessions. The most common match length is seven boards, but five, six, eight and nine are not uncommon. At the end of a match, the East-West pair returns to their home table where they compare their scores with their teammates. The event is scored on International Matchpoints (IMPs). This is a special conversion system designed to translate totals into a scoring system that gives fairer comparisons. The IMP scale is printed on the ACBL convention card. To figure the score, the algebraic difference is taken on each board and then translated into IMPs. When all the boards have been scored, the pluses and minuses are added. If the total is a plus, that team is the winner. If the total is a minus, that team is a loser.
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