BRIDGE FEDERATION OF INDIA

At PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune

14^th – 18^th September 2022

SCHEDULE & FORMAT

DATES:

• 14^th Sep (Wednesday) to 18^th Sep 2022 (Sunday) - to be organized by Bridge Federation of India.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

• Team of Four – Late Shri. Kamalakar Rao Teams Trophy
• IMP Pairs – Subhash Agarwala IMP Pairs Trophy

CONDITION OF ENTRY

• Eligibility Rules for the Team Event

The BFI Technical Committee has recommended the following allocation of “Team Quota” for each recognized State Association/Affiliated bodies, whose dues are paid up to date:

1) 3 Teams: West Bengal, Maharashtra

2) 2 Teams: Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana (To be confirmed from Anand – They were given 2 seats last year but they don’t have that many registered players)

3) 1 Team: All remaining states not covered in point (1) and (2)

4) Affiliated Bodies: 1 Team

• Eligibility Rules for Subhash Agarwala IMP Pairs

The Agarwala IMP Pairs is a Selected Pairs event with each Member Association whose dues are paid up to date, having the right to nominate such number of Pairs as approved for the Association by the BFI. The Quota for the current year will be as below:

• A state/affiliated body eligible for 1 team will have a quota to nominate 3 pairs to represent the state/affiliated body at the IMP Pairs event and so on in multiple of the no. of teams allowed.
• No extra pair except the allocated quota of the state will be allowed to play in the Pairs event.
• Seeded Pairs of Team event, will get entry at appropriate stage of the IMP Pairs event as per SCoC and only if the entry to the IMP Pairs event is received before start of the IMP Pairs event.

• To participate in the Inter State Championship, a person has to be domicile of the state. Either he should be holding MP number of that state or if he / she is a govt. employee and has been posted to another state but wants to retain his domicile state's MP no, that is also allowed.

• A player not holding an Indian Passport but residing in India for the last 2 years with residence proof can also participate and represent his resident state in the Inter State championship. However such player and his partner will not be eligible for the Ranking point in either team or pair event from the event. In team event, if a team has 2 such pairs, then the whole team will not be eligible for any ranking points.

• IMPORTANT – Performance in the Team of Four event & IMP Pairs event will be eligible for Ranking Points for Indian Teams selection, as per the BFI Ranking Policy.

• Each participant should follow the conditions for entry to the events of the championships as given in SCoC.

• For participation in the event, it is mandatory on the part of the member Association of BFI nominating the pair or team, that all their dues to BFI are cleared by 15^th August 2022. Else the team of the member association will not be allowed to participate in the Championship.

•   All participating players should be registered under BFI Master Point Scheme. 

• A Team can have a minimum of four and maximum of 6 players in the team event.
• All participating players should go through and abide by the tournament SCoC, which will be circulated on the tournament web site www.bridgewebs.com/interstate.

• The tournament schedule & SCoC will be given on the tournament web site at www.bridgewebs.com/interstate & the web site link will be circulated on the various Bridge related WhatsApp groups.

• Entries for all events will start from 1^st Sep 2022 on tournament web site.

Entry Fee

• Team Entry – Rs. 6000 per Team
• IMP Pairs Entry –  Rs. 2000 per Pair
• IMP STRATA – II Entry – Rs. 500 per Pair

Last Date for Event Entries:

• Team of Four – 13^th Sep 2022 by 1800 Hrs.

• IMP Pairs – 17^th Sep 2022 by 2000 Hrs.
• IMP Pairs STRATA – II – On the spot

Tournament Directors

               Sanjay Chakraborty – CTD

Narasinga Rao, Gora Roy Choudhury, B. G. Daxindas

Scoring In-Charge:

Ranju Bhattacharya

Reviewers

Vinay Desai / R. Venkatesh

Dealing Team – Chetan Raval & Team

PRIZES – Total Prizes for this tournament = 2.61 Lacs (BFI to arrange)

TOURNAMENT FORMAT:

• TEAM EVENT:

The teams will be divided into 2 or 3 groups each, with the TOP 8 teams seeded based on the average Master points as on 10^th Sep, 2022. The other teams will be randomly divided into groups with the condition that member states having more than one teams will not be in the same group as far as possible.

In case there are 24 or less teams, the teams will be divided into 2 groups and there will be an all-play-all Round-Robin within each group to be played over 2 days (Minimum 6 rounds of 10 boards on day-1 & remaining RR rounds of 10 boards on day-2). The 4 highest ranked teams from each group will qualify to Quarter Finals

In case of 25-30 teams, the teams will be divided into 3 groups of 9 or 10 teams each and will play an all-play-all Round-Robin within each group to be played over 2 days (Minimum 5 rounds of 10/12 boards on day-1 & remaining rounds of 10/12 boards on day-2).

In case of 31-36 teams, the teams will be divided into 3 groups of 11 or 12 teams each and will play an all-play-all Round-Robin within each group to be played over 2 days (Minimum 6 rounds of 8/10 boards on day-1 & remaining rounds of 8/10 boards on day-2).

In case of three uneven groups, 2 top teams from each group will qualify. The other two qualifiers will be determined after adding an average score for equating no of rounds played to the group, which has less no of teams.

In case of 3 groups, the 2 highest ranked teams from each group & the 2 best teams (with higher VP Scores) in 3^rd position from each group will qualify to Quarter Finals.

In case of tie-break between 2 teams within the group, the ranking will be determined as follows:

1. Higher rank will be given to the team, which has beaten the other tied team in direct match played in round-robin.
2. If the direct match was tied, then the Sum of the winning margins for all matches of both the teams will be calculated. The team with higher margin will be ranked higher.
3. If that is also same, then toss will decide the higher rank.

QUARTER-FINALS:

Quarter-Finals will be played in 3 Sessions of 12 boards each. The draw for the QF will be as under:

In case of 2 groups i.e. Group A and Group B – A1 will have the right to choose from B3 or B4 and B1 will have the right to choose from A3 or A4. A2 will automatically play with the remaining team of Group B and vice versa.

The team selected by A1 and B1 will become B4 and A4 respectively and teams who will play with A2 & B2 will become B3 and A3.

In case of 3 groups i.e. Group A, Group B & Group C – The toppers of each group will become seeds 1, 2 & 3 based on their Round Robin Scores. Seed 1 will have the right to choose any team out of the remaining 5 teams, which do not belong to his group (the chosen team will be seed 8). Then 2 will choose (the chosen team will be seed 7) with the same logic and then 3 can choose (the chosen team will be seed 6). Out of the 2 remaining teams, the team with higher score in Round-Robin will be seeded 4 and the other team will be seeded 5.

The team selected by A1 and B1 will become B4 and A4 respectively and teams who will play with A2 & B2 will become B3 and A3.

SEMIFINALS:

Semi-Finals will be played in 4 Sessions of 12 boards each. The draw for SF will be as under:

Winner of A1 Vs. B4 match (or 1 Vs. 8) Vs. Winner of B2 Vs. A3 match (or 4 Vs. 5)

Winner of B1 Vs. A4 match (or 2 Vs. 7) Vs. Winner of A2 Vs. B3 match (or 3 Vs. 6)

If there are two teams of the same state in Semi-Finals, both these teams will face each other.

In case of Semi Finals, where there are three teams of the same state, the team with the Highest VP in the Round Robin among the three teams will have the option to select the other team of the same state.

PLAY-OFF

The losers of the SF matches will play 3 sessions of 12 board matches to determine the 3^rd / 4^th rank team.

FINALS

Finals will be played in 4 Sessions of 12 boards each.

IMP PAIRS EVENT:

The Subhash Agarwala IMP Pairs would be played over two and half days as per the schedule. There will be One elimination round and a final. Elimination round will be played over 4 Sessions of 18 Boards each after which the TOP 16 pairs will qualify for an all-play-all final. Each round in final will be of 6 Boards against each opponent.

IMP PAIRS STRATA – II EVENT:

For non-qualifiers of IMP Pairs can play the IMP Pairs StRATA – II event after paying the requisite fees. The event will be played in 3 Sessions of 18 Boards each. Suitable prizes will be given to first 5 positions depending on no. of entries.