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Rocket Rookie Race

The Rocket Rookie Race

Unit 430's latest masterpoint race, geared toward newer players.

Latest Standings   How It Works   Schedule of RRR-eligible events

Quick Summary: The Rocket Rookie is a new masterpoint race being run for the first time in 2012.  Many events are covered, from sectionals to Unit Games, but all RRR-eligible events are limited events.  Masterpoints won in these events, only by non-Life Masters playing with other non-Life Masters, count towards the race.  There are a few exceptions and lots of details, so past the current standings we have placed the complete rules.

 

Current 2012 Rocket Rookie Race Leaders (as of November 13)

1.14.67 Ronald Kuiper, Surrey BC
2.13.52 George Franko, Vancouver BC
3.11.48 Alex Roman, Burnaby BC
4.11.11 Stephen Ottridge, Vancouver BC
5.10.58 Elain Duvall, Vancouver BC
6.9.96 Andrew Krywaniuk, Vancouver BC
7.9.71 Jim Glanville, Surrey BC
8.9.44 Pearl Franko, Vancouver BC
9.8.98 Bill Matheson, Richmond BC
10.8.16 Jan Bromley, Langley BC
11.7.72 Sue Glanville, Surrey BC
12.7.28 Kurt Moller, Vancouver BC
13.7.17 Frances Corney, Vancouver BC
14.7.12 Debbie Martignago, Pitt Meadowas BC
15.7.04 Pamela Rattenbury, West Vancouver BC
16.6.97 Ross Deegan, Vancouver BC
17.6.93 Robert Sewell, West Vancouver BC
18.6.85 John Coates, Vancouver BC
19.6.84 Eve Jensen, Abbotsford BC
20.6.79 Natalie Warnes, W Vancouver BC
21.6.75 Miranda Levert, Vancouver BC
22.6.57 Larry Barker, North Vancouver BC
23.6.43 Erwin Tenta, Squamish BC
24.6.38 Madeleine Bourgouin, Vancouver BC
25.6.36 Rich Schmid, Surrey BC
26.6.01 Colin Stark, Vancouver BC
27.5.92 Jim Garnier, Maple Ridge BC
28.5.81 L Ralph Buckley, Vancouver BC
29.5.73 Barbara Van Blankenstein, North Vancouver BC
30.5.67 Lucian Popescu, Vancouver BC
31.5.45 Barbara Forfellow, Port Coquitlam BC
32.5.14 Tadeusz Smaruj, Vancouver BC
33.5.05 Sharon Main, Vancouver BC
34.4.98 Leslie Tenta, Squamish BC
35.4.89 Ruisheng Shi, Burnaby BC
36.4.86 Grethe Larsen, Surrey BC
37.4.82 Denny Gibson, Bellingham WA
38.4.79 William Cooke, Magna Bay BC
38.4.79 Karen Cooke, Magna Bay BC
40.4.64 Farivar Sahihi, West Vancouver BC
41.4.51 Linda Seifred, North Vancouver BC
41.4.51 Nita Dalal, Vancouver BC
43.4.35 Sania Begovic, Burnaby BC
44.4.29 Lucia Van Horne, North Vancouver BC
45.4.26 Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC
46.4.25 Karin Phillips, Mission BC
47.4.18 Nonie Schmid, Surrey BC
48.4.12 David Gabel, Vancouver BC
49.4.11 Kathryn Shannon, North Vancouver BC
50.4.08 Doug Chaffee, Langley BC

509.91 masterpoints have been won by 191 RRR-eligible people so far in 2012.

 (Players must be paid-up members of the ACBL to be eligible for all ACBL masterpoint races.)

Latest Standings   How It Works   Schedule of RRR-eligible events

 

How The Rocket Rookie Race works (by McBruce)

Unit 430 has several masterpoint races based on a calendar year's worth of achievement in local competitions:

That's where we were at the end of 2011.  Since 1993, when I first joined the Unit Board, I have been responsible for keeping track of these races.  Before that time it had been done by hand, but by 1993, ACBLScore was two years old, up to the task, and made the job easier once the learning curve was overcome.  Strangely, the scoring part of ACBLScore became the LAST part of the program I learned about when I began directing games: up until that time I had used it for masterpoint races and for the Daily Bulletins I produced at tournaments.

One thing that I had noticed about the Phil Wood Under 200 race became a suggestion that the Unit Board eagerly accepted for 2012.  The under-200 race is usually won by someone who seldom plays with another player who is under 200 points.  Usually the winner has spent most of the year in Flight A slugging it out with the Unit's best players, with a partner who is often among them.  And while rewarding new players who have the talent to slug it out with the experts was a good idea in 1974, and still is, there is almost no chance for a player to win the under-200 race by playing with other under-200 players in limited events.

The idea I came up with was to have a race covering all Unit events geared towards newer players, but to only count the masterpoints won by non-Life Masters while playing only with other non-Life Masters.  The Unit supplied the catchy name for the race, and I suspect will probably supply a trophy or plaque by the end of the year.  Here are the rules:

So there are lots of chances to win RRR points.

And now for the punch line: after 18 years of using ACBLScore to figure out the winners in these races, I am now faced with one that ACBLScore will not be able to handle, at least not completely!  The only logical way to work out the leaders in this race is to look at the ACBLScore output, select the RRR-eligible masterpoint awards, record player numbers and masterpoints won in a file, event by event, and let a computer program crunch the numbers together!

Latest Standings   How It Works   Schedule of RRR-eligible events

 

Here is a list of the RRR-eligible events in 2012:

Rocket Rookie Race-eligible events in 2012 (Completed events in italics, future events in bold):

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