Welcome at the
3rd Virtual Mixed Teams Tournament
JAN 1st-3rd 2021- BBO
Date:
January 2nd/3rd with additional matches on friday 1st
Location: BridgeBaseOnline
Schedule: The key playing time is Saturday 10:00 – Sunday 21:00. We try a special concept regarding the playing times. We will play 10board matches in four stages. http://www.mixed-teams.de/2021.pdf
Entry
fee:
- Obligatory: 40€ contribution per team, covering the costs for organization, TD etc. Junior teams play for free
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Bank
details will be sent as soon as you register
Organisation:
Marie Eggeling [marabelle] (marie.eggeling@mixed-teams.de), chairperson of DBV (Deutscher Bridge Verband)
Thomas Gotard [Tomi2] (thomas.gotard@mixed-teams.de) – feel free to ask questions via email, Facebook or any other way!
Michael
Gromöller [blade] and Dominik Kettel [DBV_07] and the team of
www.bbo-germany.de
Tournament directors: WBF/EBL directors Jakub Kasprzak [Kubusiu] (Poland) and Aleksander Krych [Krychu] (Poland)
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We
hope both directors will have little work because
we expect a friendly atmosphere with few irregularities and penalties!
Web:
we will launch a website (www.mixed-teams.de)
and start a Facebook group soon. You can use both sources to get in
touch with
other (potential) participants.
Networking:
You wish to
participate, but don’t have a partner or teammates? You need
help with
transportation? Contact us or leave a comment in the Facebook group/on
the
homepage. We will try to connect you with each other!
Registration:
Contact us
via email only and name your team and teammates.
Conditions
of participation:
We generally welcome all friendly bridge players, regardless of their
nationality, age or playing strength. As this is an invitational tournament we do however
reserve the right to refuse
registrations. Each partnership has to be
mixed in
gender at any time.
Schedule,
Format, Scoring:
Time
table:
We have a flexible schedule according to your preferences. You can still make it to Drømmemakker-cup on saturday :)
http://www.mixed-teams.de/2021.pdf
Rounds
marked in bold
letters are mandatory playing times
for every team. Consequently every team plays a minimum of 80 boards
(10
boards
per round). Every team may add 0-18 optional rounds. If you like
playing
bridge
in the morning – sign in for those rounds! If you
don’t want a 3 hour dinner
break, play bridge! Your team consists of night owls? Feel free to play
the 10 p.m.
session as well.
Calculation
of the final result:
In
the end of the main stage your VP average is most important, but some
modifications will be made. Every round you play counts for your VP
average. We
encourage everyone to play 100
boards (10 rounds). If you want to sit
out more,
the following rules apply:
-
First
16 voluntary sitouts “we
don’t want to play” will not influence your VP
average.
- 17th,18th sitouts will count as [minimum (your team average | 10 VP)]. So the rounds 9-10 you will get no more then 10VP.
Teams
who play more then 12 rounds are less likely to get a good average
above 12VP. IF your team decides to play 13 or more rounds, you will
revice bonus-VP after round 26. 13th match = 0.1VP, 14th
match =
0.2 VP, 15th match = 0.3 VP etc. So if you play 15 matches you get
0.1+0.2+0.3 = 0.6 VP bonus! This is limied to 1VP per match
For
example:
·
Team
A plays only 9 sessions and
achieves an average of 12 VP:
[9x12
+ 1x10] = 118 divided by 10 scores = 11.80
VP
·
Team
B played 12 sessions and
achieves an average of 12 VP = 12.00VP
·
Team
C played 18 sessions and ended
up with an average of 9 VP: 162 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.3 + 0.4 + 0-5
+ 0.6 = 164.1 /18 = 9.12 VP
Format
The
tournament will consist of two stages and two final rounds.
The first sessions (4 mandatory and all optional) will be
seeded
matches.
To
determine the strength of a team we add each
player’s WBF (all categories) and EBL master points and take
the square root of
this. The sum of the four highest ranked players will be the
team’s seeding
points.
This
way, teams with four relatively strong players
will be seeded higher than teams with one master and three unrated
players.
We
try to ensure that the average seeding points of
each team’s opponents is similar to the average seeding
points of the field
without the team’s own seeding points.
Fixed Rounds 5-8 will be played in a Swiss movement. Rematches with optional rounds are possible.
After this round all adjustments are done and the average score is counted. The field will be split in two groups:
Teams ranked 9th or worse may chose to play one "cool down" match or withdraw. In case of withdraw the round is counted as worse of [10 VP or the last average]. Places 9-n are assigned after this round with no more adjustments.
Teams ranked 1-8 play one more swiss
with possible
re-matches. No more adujstments apply here. After this match we
calculate the new average,. Top two play one more match for the
first/second place, 3rd/4th play one more match for the bronze medal,
the other teams are ranked 5th-8th. The very last match is counted
twice.
Scoring:
Each
match will be scored in VP according the WBF 20 VP
scale for 10 boards.
Non-voluntary
sitouts (odd number of teams, withdraws)
will be scored as [maximum of (your teams average | 12 VP)]
Adjustments
for too many voluntary
sitouts will be added after
round 26
Penalties
will be added (subtracted) after each round
immediately.
Adjustments
for opponent’s strength will be added/subtracted after round
26:
There
ist a risk that teams might get (un-)lucky
playing over-/underseeded teams in the first stage or getting opponents
of a
different level in the optional swiss rounds. There will be adjustments
for
playing against strong/weak teams. We consider teams averaging 8-12 VP
after 26
round as “normal”=> no adjustment.
For
each match you played against a team higher than
12 VP average, you get [Their average – 12 VP] adjustment,
for each match you
played against a team lower than 8 VP you get [8 VP- Their average]
negative adjustment.
http://www.mixed-teams.de/rules_2021.pdf for more details
http://www.mixed-teams.de/Regeln_2021.pdf für die deutsche
Fassung der Regeln