District 24 will hold District GNT finals online. Winners in each flight will advance to the national finals, also held online, in late July 2021. Fees are $60/session per team, with all teams ensured at least one full, two-session opening round.
Registration Required on BridgeWinners:
https://bridgewinners.com/tournament/view/district-24-gnt/
All opening rounds start at 10:00am ET
| FLIGHT | Opening Weekend | Semi-Final (if needed) | Final |
| Open | May 22 + May 23 | June 6 | June 13 |
| Flight A | June 5 + June 6 | June 13 | |
| Flight B | May 22 + May 23 | June 13 | |
| Flight C | June 5 + June 6 | June 13 |
All games played on Bridge Base Online
Questions: gnt@gnyba.org
District GNT Coordinator: Lee Lin (lee@gnyba.org)
Tournament Flyer:
https://gnyba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GNYBA-GNT-flyer-2021_Apr-21.pdf
See the full Conditions of Contest (some highlights below)
Special Eligibility Rules for 2021:
The event is open to teams of 4-6 players. All players must be members in good standing of the ACBL and meet residence and flight-specific masterpoint / rank restrictions.
For the 2020-2021 season, GNT eligibility for location, masterpoint limits, and Life Master rank are all based on August 6th, 2019 records. In all flights, a member’s principal physical residence as of September 1st of 2019 shall establish District residency. A player who moved between September 1, 2019 and September 1, 2020 may elect to compete in either District (but not both). New ACBL members who joined after September 1, 2020 may use their current District residency.
The Championship Flight is open to all such players, Flight A to those who had fewer than 6000 masterpoints, Flight B to those who had fewer than 2500 masterpoints, and Flight C to those who were non-life masters and had fewer than 500 masterpoints.
A player may participate in 2 flights of the event as long there is no conflict in the initial rounds as scheduled. However, once a team advances to the final KO phase in any flight (or semi-finals of open flight), none of the players may participate in any other flight. For example, if a Flight B team advances past May 22nd and May 23rd into the finals on June 13th, none of the players will be allowed to join a Flight A or Flight C roster. The team will not be allowed to forfeit their KO in order to join other flights.
Format
a) The First stage of the District Final will be knockouts, round robins, or swiss at the discretion of the Coordinator and the tournament Director.
b) Head to head KO ties will be broken by a six-board playoff. Round robin or three-way KO ties will be broken per current ACBL general conditions which can be found at www.acbl.org.
c) Round robins or swiss rounds will be scored using the USBF Victory Point charts (even though BBO software may display ACBL Victory Points). See USBF conditions https://usbf.org/docs/COC/General%20Conditions%20of%20Contest%202019.pdf .
d) NUMBER OF BOARDS. Every knockout match in the championship flight will consist of 48 boards. For Flight A, B, & C, the final knockout match will consist of 48 boards, while earlier rounds will be 24 boards if single-session and 48 boards if two-session. The exact format depends on the number of teams entered and will be determined by the Tournament Director using Appendix A as a guideline.
Participation Requirements
Each member of a team must play 50% of the boards per knockout match. During the swiss or round robin stage event, each player must play in at least half the rounds, rounding down.
If the team receives a bye for any portion of the event, then all members of the team are deemed to have participated for that portion.
Convention Charts
At the District and National Finals, the Basic Chart applies to Flight C, the Basic+ Chart applies to Flight B, the Open Chart applies to Flight A, and the Open+ Chart applies to the Championship Flight. Players are responsible for ensuring their agreements abide by the appropriate chart. The director-in-charge and GNT Committee may unfavorably adjust the results of any board in which a pair or team used disallowed methods, or even disqualify the offending team in extreme cases.
Arrangement of Matches and Security
a). All rounds will be played online using Bridge Base Online, following standard ACBL conventions for swiss, round robin, or knockout matches.
b). The director in charge will determine required security protocols for all rounds. For knockout rounds, players should be prepared to maintain a connection with a virtual screen mate opponent using Zoom, a live phone call, or other video chat software. Typically, North and East are one set of screen mates, South and West are the other set.
Masterpoint Awards
Flight C: 16.0 Gold / Red
Flight B: 26.8 Gold
Flgiht A: 32.0 Gold
Champ: 38.4 Gold
Note: Masterpoint awards assume at least 4 sessions played in the flight – if there are fewer than 4 teams, the director in charge may shorten the event. Also, masterpoint awards above represent a 20% reduction from face-to-face District GNT finals, because the event is held online and awards gold and red mastepoints, per ACBL Board of Directors motion 20S2-02.
There will be no Summer NABC this year. What, if anything, will these events qualify for?
There will be a GNT national finals, held online with all districts participating, just as there was an online NAP national finals held last month. I agree it’s not ideal, but it’s better than missing an entire two years of GNT!
Hopefully we are able to hold a fun event at the district level regardless, and then send some excited teams to the national finals in late July.
I see the answer is on the GNYBA home page:
“Winners in each flight will advance to the national finals, also held online, in late July 2021.”
Hi,
My friends and I would have loved to participate in this championship game but it’s on
Saturday which is our Sabbath. Next time you schedule these tournaments it would be nice to consider this in scheduling.