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, Eastern Maine Sectional and the Indian Summer Sectional.
Sectionals for 2025
March 22-23 Spring Tonic, Portland
May 24-25 Tom Tarbox Memorial, Rockland
July 12-13 Central Maine, Hallowell
Aug 9-10 Lobsterfest, Portland
Sept 13-14 Eastern Maine, Bangor
Oct 4-5 Indian Summer, Portland
*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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