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Monday 16 February 2009

Crediting Master Points for Knockout Events

As many of you will have seen from the letters page of the February edition of English Bridge, the Committee has been examining ways of crediting points earned in national knockout events before the completion of the event. In an ideal world, points would be credited after each round but this would, currently, involve considerable extra work at Aylesbury, both in the actual crediting and in the manual maintenance of cumulative information for the purposes of the Gold Point scheme. Consequently, we have had to ensure that the timing of credits puts all members on an equal footing for the annual master points competition.

To this end we will run a pilot scheme in 2009 which will have as its principle the crediting of points earned in KO events after teams have been eliminated from a competition. However, points for events started in 2008 earned by teams eliminated in 2008 will not be credited until February 2009. Thereafter they will be credited on completion of each round for the teams eliminated in that round.

Assuming the pilot is successful, it is the Committee’s intention to adopt this process in future years.

During the course of our review of the current procedures it became apparent that considerable unnecessary work was created at Aylesbury by the inability of some team captains to provide accurate and complete information on their teams, particularly EBU numbers. We would, therefore, request that next season captains exercise the same degree of care to the provision of this information as they expect from Aylesbury in the handling of their entries.

3 comments:

  1. How about creating a searchable list of EBU members and their numbers.
    The Federation Suisse de Bridge produce a booklet every year with everyone's number in it as well as the ability to search for someone's FSB number on their website, www.bridgefederation.ch. Surely the search aspect of this facility can not be too difficult to setup. One would only need to provide the name and the associated EBU number, so other personal data can be protected.

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  2. Searches are available for WELSH Bridge Union members already. For some samples, please see http://www.michaelbond.co.cc/

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  3. The American Bridge League also publish this sort of list and you can even see who is banned on it!

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