First off, let’s admit we are all guilty of result stalking to some degree. When the club or Common Game results are delayed only half a day, people get antsy. What’s going on? Was there some massive scoring mistake? Did they realize we played the wrong boards? Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one refreshing your browser.
STaC week adds a second layer of result stalking – first you can see the club results, but there is a STaC delay before you can see the final silver point payouts with STaC bonus. The day after email is one way to find it, but if you did not play the event, you will need to find the Fall 2019, Unit 155 STaC results.
Even though it is currently Wednesday afternoon, we know results are delayed about 1-2 days. The only available result right now is the Monday afternoon session. Here are the results! Well done Marc and Cathy Nathan for their 69.35% game at Aces Bridge Club!
For those who didn’t dive into the inner mechanics of the STaC bonus formula, it is a simple calculation for open pairs, single-session public club events: 1.875 + 0.1875*Number_of_Tables. With 49.5 tables, it seems they round down.
1.875 + 0.1875 * 49 = 11.06 Silver
William Sigward and Jack Hartog won first place in strat B with a 69.05% game. However, 2nd place in A paid significantly more, which is 75% of the first prize (so you ignore any B-strat prize). Raymond Leon and Louis Haber took 2nd in B, with a solid 63.99% game. We can use their reward to deduce the number of B and C players among the 49.5 tables! However, I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Happy STaCing for those playing later this week. For the rest, keep refreshing…