The cat is out of the bag. ACBL just granted our Unit and District a few tournament sanctions, and amazingly some members are already inquiring about them! It seems the “Find a tournament” section on ACBL.org attracts a decent following. See below for items on the docket:
Royal STaC?
You might have missed it because it happened during the Omicron scare, as well as the bomb cyclone that shut down our local club on Saturday. However, for those who braved the elements, we held a very successful special STaC Mon-Fri in conjunction with several other neighboring districts. The prize in each game paid 25% gold, 25% red, 25% silver, and 25% black points. For example, our own Unit 155 pair Mindy Fleder and Florin Neamtu scored a 70% game to win over 16 Masterpoints in a game of 110 tables on one of the days.
Regular STaC – Mar 28th – Apr 3rd
This is going to be a little more special than a normal silver point STaC. The GNYBA Tournament committee, along with Bridge and Games, will be cooking up some special events during this STaC. If all goes well, we might even get a 2-session bracketed swiss game.
Downgraded Sectional?? April 8th to April 10th
I’ll admit, even I’ve never heard of this one until recently. Don’t let the name full you, it’s actually a very cool format that allows GNYBA to hold a silver point sectional using the same directors that we are all used to seeing at the club. It’s a very economical compromise that ACBL allows as long as our table count does not exceed a certain threshold. In the past, we had trouble hosting a sectional given the extreme expenses required in finding a venue and scheduling ACBL directors.
Hilton regional, October 6th – Oct 10th
This is exciting. We are finally bringing back the Midtown Hilton Regional. Instead of holding it between Christmas as New Year’s Eve, we managed to book a new slow in early October. Hopefully that appeals to a larger crowd, as the previous schedule made for inconvenient and expensive travel (and drove our non-bridge playing relatives crazy).
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