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St. Albans Duplicate Bridge Club
Rules
Club Competition Rules

Annual Club Championships

 

  1. Teams Championship
  2. Pairs Championship
  3. Individual Championship
  4. Roy Seaman Trophy

 

Players must be members of the club before their scores can count towards any of the Championships.

 

All qualifying scores between April 1st and 31st March of the following year are to be included.

 

All Championships are calculated on Master Points won at local level.  Where MPs are awarded to players for County(x2) or National(x3) competitions, they are adjusted accordingly.

 

Master Points are awarded to the winners of the Teams and Pairs trophies in accordance with EBU rules (4.11 Ladder Events). 

 

Qualifying scores

 

Teams Championship

 

A team consists of four players.  All four scores will count towards the team total.

If on occasion one player is substituted then the team will score the total of the three remaining players.

If two players are substituted on a single occasion then there will be no score for the team.

In the event of a winning team having more than four members, the names of the 4 members contributing the most points to the team total are taken. Where this is indecisive, the member(s) first playing in the competition should appear on the trophy.

 

Members of the winning teams (where the club averages 9-17 full tables) will receive 54 MPs, and the runners-up 27 MPs.

 

Pairs Championship

 

All MPs a pair has won throughout the year will count at local level MPs.  Where the club holds a heat of a County or National competition with a Non-qualifying event run in tandem or separately the MPs will be awarded accordingly for each event.  So that all Pairs MPs for the Pairs Championship will match their EBU MPs.

 

Winning Pairs will each receive (where the club averages 9-17 full tables) 1st 96 MPs,

2nd – 72 MPs, 3rd – 48  MPs, 4th- 24 MPs.

 

Individual Championship

 

This competition is for the individual player who scores the most MPs and is calculated by adding up the total of the four best scores with each partner he/she has played with throughout the year. 

 

 

Roy Seaman Trophy

 

This competition is for the individual player who scores the most MPs throughout the year, and who has not won any of the other Championships.  Scores from teams, pairs, and individual competitions, all count.