North American Pairs 2024-2025

Notes for Club Managers

Club qualification games for the North American pairs are held in June, July, and August of 2024. Clubs may hold up to two (2) club qualifying games in each of the three months for each weekly sanctioned session held that month. This applies to each flight. Please reach out to John Nothdurft (noth0583@gmail.com) with game information so that I can list you on our NAP Qualifier calendar.

• In-person club qualifying games may not be held within 25 miles of a District’s Sectional tournament without permission. No online club qualifying games may be held by a club in a Unit which is hosting a Sectional. The District may prohibit club qualifying games during a District’s regional tournament. Club-stage games MAY conflict with online Regional-rated events run by ACBL.

• Tournaments in Unit 141 this summer include:

  • Sectional (I/N): North Wales, PA from June 1-2, 2024

  • Regional: King of Prussia, PA from June 24-30, 2024

  • Sectional (STaC): District 4 from July 8-14, 2024

• An invitational club may conduct a NAP qualifying game

  • Under its usual rules and award masterpoints at 80% of an open club; or

  • May, with Unit permission and appropriate publicity, hold an open qualifying game for any NAP flight provided the game is open to any ACBL member fitting any applicable flight participation requirements.

• Table fees are $5.15 per table, per session

• Minimum 18 boards using the following limits: Open/2500/NLM<500

Player Qualifying

Club level qualification may be earned in any ACBL club in-person or online. Qualification is earned as an individual and not as a partnership, and may be earned with any ACBL or non-ACBL member. Any player who qualifies in a flight higher than his own is deemed to have also qualified in his own flight for the next level of competition. Partnerships consisting of players of different flights must enter events in the flights for which the top player is eligible.

• Flight A is open to any player

• Flight B is open to players <2500 MPs (as of the June masterpoint cycle, processed on May 6)

• Flight C are Non-Life Masters <500 MPs (as of the June masterpoint cycle, processed on May 6)

Players qualify by finishing in the top 50% (rounded up and including ties) or scoring at least 50%. Only paid-up ACBL members may participate beyond the club level.

Follow-up Events

District Qualifying will happen in our Unit starting in September.

• Flight A:  September 14-15, 2024 (location TBD)

• Flight B:  October 6, 2024 (location TBD)

• Flight C:  September 15, 2024 (location TBD)

Nationals will be held in Memphis TN at the 2025 Spring NABC.

• Flight A = Wednesday/Thursday, March 12-13, 2025

• Flights B & C = Saturday/Sunday, March 22-23, 2025

For further Conditions of Contest, please see: https://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/play/NAP/CoC.pdf