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The Next MUG is 1pm Sunday, Mar. 24 at the GVBC (Burnaby)
The March Monthly Unit Game site will take place at the GVBC at 3760 Sperling Avenue in Burnaby. Game time for this event is 1 pm. Hope you are enjoying playing the MUG at the various clubs in our Unit - does your club want to host? Please let us know!
Please note that, for the time being, this game, and future MUGs, will be pairs.
The MUG is usually one of the strongest games of the month. Hope to see you there!

Check the VBC website, and ACBL Live, for results from recent games. For more historical information, go here.


Mark your calendars for the Spring Sectional May 18-20!
May 18-20 (Sat. to Mon.): The Spring Sectional is at the Engineers Hall in Burnaby: 4333 Ledger Ave. On Monday, we’ve added a 0-1000 Pairs event, where you can play one or both sessions. Here are the links to the ACBL Tournaments page and flyer.
Note that the GNT District Finals for Championship and Flight B are taking place alongside the sectional on Sat. & Sun. See the news item on the GNT's for more information.
The Unit 430 AGM will take place during the break between the Monday sessions.


GNT (Grand National Teams) Qualification
The Grand National Teams (GNTs) start at the club level. Teams that qualify then get to play in the District finals [May 18-19 at Eng. Hall for Flight B and Championship], and the first place teams get to represent District 19 at the Finals, held in conjunction with the Summer NABC (in Toronto!).
But even if you didn't qualify at the club level, you can play in the District Finals by paying an additional $30 for each non-qualified player. If you've played team events before, you know that this is a wonderful opportunity to experience great bridge. If you haven't tried team events before.......you really should.
To see if you have qualified, go to the D19 list of qualifiers.
Subsidies: Winning teams are eligible for subsidies from D19 (but it is unclear if D19 offers them this year) and from Unit 430 (to be determined).
For more information, here's the link to D19's GNT page.


Welcome to SMILE - the new IMP League at VBC, Tuesday evenings!
SMILE stands for "Short Match Imp League Evenings" an ingenious and exciting new way to run team games. For more information about how it works, and how to register, click here. And here are the results.


Tips and Advice for Newer Players
We are putting together articles about some things confusing to newer players - let us know if these are helpful (and if there are any other areas where more info would be useful!) First up:
A Primer on Team Games by Stuart Carr
(Also, more helpful articles here, on such things as: why slow play is a bad thing, the problems caused by unauthorized information, how to complete a Convention Card (including the new CC), and why the key to improving your game is visualization.


Unit Board Adopts Policy on how Cheating affects Entitlement to Awards and Trophies
At the May, 2021 Unit Board Meeting, the following Policy was adopted:
Unit 430 Policy - Player Expelled or on Probation or Suspension
1. Definitions
1.1 For the purposes of this Policy, a player is deemed to be not in good standing if the player is, with respect to the ACBL or ACBL events,
(a) expelled from the ACBL,
(b) serving a term of suspension,
(c) serving indefinite probation,
(d) serving a term of probation the initial term of which was twenty-four or more months or serving a term of probation following a suspension, the initial term of which was in excess of ninety days.
2. Eligibility for Subsidy, Award or Trophy
2.1 A player who is not in good standing during any part of a calendar year is not eligible for any subsidy, award, trophy or other entitlement provided by Unit 430 for that calendar year (the “Period of Ineligibility”).
2.2 The Unit Board may, by a two-thirds majority vote, in its unfettered discretion, extend the Period of Ineligibility to include additional time before or after the Period of Ineligibility if the reason the player is not in good standing is related to, or connected with, a time before or after the expulsion, suspension or probation is in effect.
2.3 For example,
(a) if a player is not in good standing because of a finding of cheating that occurred before the expulsion, suspension or probation commenced, then the Unit Board may include the time in the Period of Ineligibility during which it was found that the cheating took place or, on the balance of probabilities, was likely to have taken place, and
(b) if a subsidy, award, trophy or other entitlement is provided in a calendar year or years that commences after the Period of Ineligibility expires, but relates to matters occurring during the Period of Ineligibility, then the Unit Board may include all or part of that following calendar year or years in the Period of Ineligibility.


Club Scores - West Vancouver Senior Centre - Silver Harbour - Delbrook
Unit 430 is happy to help ACBL and non-ACBL clubs, by posting scores on our website. Please contact Tom (text 604-987-6001, or email at andersontg@shaw.ca), if you would like us to post your club scores here (or to let us know if there are other ways we can help support your game!)

A. West Vancouver Senior Community Centre Duplicate scores
Remember we now start all our games at 1:15, so please arrive by around 1pm.

Mar. 13 Scores Congratulations to Shahla Keshvarz - Shahnaz Sabet for a 73.33% game, and to Susan Robertson - June Knight for a 72% game!
Mar. 6 Scores Congratulations to Hossein Dehghani and Masoud Alikashan for a 70.83% game!
Feb. 28 Scores
Feb. 21 Scores


B. Silver Harbour Bridge Club Scores
Table Reservations.
Here are recent scores:
March 15th
March 8th
Feb. 23rd


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Today is 2024-03-19

Planning your future games and tournaments? Here's a listing of events locally and regionally for the next few months.