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Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast)

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Last Update of the site: Monday, January 16, 2012.
Found a mistake? Click here and tell McBruce!

Welcome to Unit 430's Webpage!
New to the site?  Click here to jump down to an explanation of what Matchpointer Online is all about.

Latest Local Bridge News
Quick Links to What's Happening NOW (updated January 16)

Recently Completed:

Next Up on the Unit Calendar:

  • Next Open Sectional: Trophy Sectional, January 27-29, 2012 at Burnaby Engineer's Hall.  Flyers and info page coming soon...
  • Next 0-300 Sectional: Spring Future Stars, May 5-6, 2012 at Vancouver Bridge Centre.
  • Next STaC: CBF STaC, February 20-26, 2012, Unit 430 District-wide STaC, June 4-10, 2012.
  • Next Monthly Unit Game: 7:00pm, Saturday, February 4 at Vancouver Bridge Centre (teams)
  • Next Mentor-Mentee Game: 1:00pm, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at Vancouver Bridge Centre, pairs.  (To pre-register for the game, send an e-mail to David Dilkes)
  • IMP League News:
    • Flight A/X/B: A rush to get in at the last minute gave us a 14-team league with three strats, as the best of Flight B have moved up to play in the major leagues this year.  All teams have kept up with the quick every-other-week pace, and standings and stats are now online here!
    • Flight C: has begun with seven teams of non-Life Masters and a interesting alternative format.  After the first day of play, players preferred not to play 24 boards against the same team.  The remainder of the season will be conducted on selected Sunday afternoons, with six of the seven teams playing four six-board segments.  Over the course of the season each team will play the others for four segments, and the results will slowly take shape, like the results of an election.  The next match day is January 22, and standings are here, with special web pages for each Flight C league team coming soon.
  • Spring Multi-Level Events: GNT club qualifying period is now on:
    • GNT: The Grand National Teams club qualifying period runs until April 1, 2012.  Most Unit 430 qualifying games for the GNT take place in the new year, after the COPC and CNTC qualifying periods end (they have, now).  District Final: Everett WA, April 21-22, more details when they are finalized.
    • Canadian Bridge Championships: The 2012 event will be held in Montreal from April 28 to May 5.  To play in the team events, which includes a third, under-1000 strat in the CNTC this year, you need to enter by March 1, and finalize your team rosters and submit any prealerts by March 30.
  • District 19 Regional: Richmond BC (at the River Rock), April 23-29, 2012.
  • Seattle NABC: Washington Convention and Trade Center, downtown Seattle, November 24-December 4.

News Items:

  • June Pocock and Zoran Peca win the 13-table January Monthly Unit Game!
  • Kai Zhou wins the 2011 Monthly Unit Game trophy race!  Kai also finished first in the under-2000 race, so the B award went to Brian Liu.  Yu Sue won the under-750 race.
  • Round-Up Sectional at Engineer's Hall, November 10 - 13 at Burnaby Engineer's Hall (began Thursday evening). Results and Masterpoint Leaders
  • Trophy Race Winners for 2011: The final sectional tournament decided most of the winners on the final day, as it often does.  Laurence Betts won the Phil Wood Trophy, Susan Peters won the Edie Bonnell Trophy, and Huan Zhao won the Phil Wood Under 200 trophy!  Trophy Race Standings (now updated to include Sunday, which was missing from the first version) here (same winners).
  • North American Pairs 2011 District Final: The top three pairs in each flight will be invited to the National Final in Memphis TN at the 2012 Spring NABC!  Good luck to all winners!  Complete Results.
    • Flight A (28 pairs, held at the Vancouver Bridge Centre):
      1. Ken Scholes, Bellevue WA - Dick Yarington, Seattle WA
      2. Henry Lortz, Seattle WA - Ken Christiansen, Bothell WA
      3. Jack Lee, Richmond BC - Baixiang Liu, Burnaby BC
    • Flight B (16 pairs, held at the Round-Up Sectional):
      1. Kim Eng, Issaquah WA - David Taylor, Seattle WA
      2. Paul Conroy, Aberdeen WA - David Baer, Seattle WA
      3. Patrick White, Bothell WA - Brian Zaugg, Burien WA
    • Flight C (10 pairs, held at the Round-Up Sectional):
      1. Kathleen Powers, Tumwater WA - Rebecca Turnbull, Chehalis WA
      2. Diane Griffiths - Edee Rumley, Langley BC
      3. Andrew Krywaniuk - Vincent Yung, Vancouver BC
  • Surprise!  A big surprise party was held for the 65th birthday of Gilbert Lambert on October 15 at the Vancouver Bridge Centre.  (You didn't hear about it here because it was a surprise!)  Photos taken at the event are here.
  • College Bridge Tournament!  A two-day event at the April 2012 Vancouver Regional, with cash prizes for the winners!  Details here.
  • Lucy Zhong and Gilbert Lambert win the 17½-table October Mentor-Mentee Game!
    • October 1 Game Results
    • Next Mentor-Mentee Game will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2012
    • An article based on a hand in the April game, here
    • To pre-register for the next game, send an e-mail to David Dilkes
  • A program called ACBLmerge allows viewers to:
    • See the cards in each hand beside the results of the deal, ordered from N-S top to E-W top,
    • Hover the mouse over a player in the list at the top to see that player's approximate masterpoint holding,
    • Click on your pair number in the list at the top and a window will come up with all your results (doesn't work for IMP Pairs)
    • Check the field strength of the game you were in, by average MP and by geometric mean
    • See the double-dummy makes with each hand.
    Check it out here (Victoria Day Sectional) or here (Penticton Regional).
  • Duplicating Boards for Your Club: The Unit's new acquisition, the duplicating machine, is now available to clubs other than the VBC for a small fee.  Read all about it here.
  • New Rookies Section added: The former Special Events area has been relocated to other spots on the site to open up the purple section as a new Rookies area!  Lots of new content has been added to this area:
    • A page for general articles geared at rookies (here, four new articles already added)
    • A page with details on the Unit mentoring program and local teachers (here, teacher list coming)
    • A page with lists of events for newer players coming up (here, check it out!)
    • A page of articles illustrating duplicate play by spotlighting a single deal (here; one hand so far, hoping for more).
    • Local Bridge Teachers: help us out!  Send me a quick write-up of one of your favorite lesson hands.  You may attract some new students this way!
  • Greg Morse has begun a Unit 430 blog.  Check it out if you want to comment on some of the things Unit 430 is planning.

Not So Recently Completed:

 

IMP League Links
Quick Links to all 2011-12 IMP League information

2011-12 Unit 430 IMP League :: Quick Links to Standings and Team Pages
Flight A/X/B (unlimited / under 2000 / under 1000 team average)
Standings & Schedule Grid      Notes & News		 Flight C (Non-Life Master IMP League)
Next Match Day: Jan 22      C League Team Pages coming soon
Ayukawa (X) Meyer (B) Bye / Ottridge
Carr (B) Moffatt (A) Demeulemeester / Burns
Dietrich (X) Nystrom (A) Moffatt / Stark
Gerrie (X) Segal (X) Nours / Main
Johnson (A) Yue Su (X) Nystrom / Breukels
Litwin (A) Tang (B) Skoropada / Noort
McMullin (A) Vincent (A) Zhou / Ion

 

In early 2010, we changed the look of the site slightly and will continue to tinker.  By far the most common complaint about Matchpointer Online's former look was the different-coloured background images behind the main text, which in some cases made it difficult to read the text in front of it.  We switched to a consistent and lighter, less-intrusive background, with the colours in the headlines and the outlines of the page.

 

Quick Tip: One common complaint I get is that the text size is either too large or too small.  Here's a trick: hold down the right CTRL key (not the left side one) with your right thumb and look with your right index finger (while your right thumb holds down the CTRL key) for the keys marked 0, -, and + (or right bracket, underscore, and equals, depending on the status of SHIFT...).  You will probably find that + increases the size of the text, - decreases it, and 0 restores it to the original size, as long as you have the CTRL key held down.  It works on most browsers.  (You're on your own if you're viewing this on a mobile device, but my iPod touch renders it fairly well.  Small, but readable...)

 

Thanks for asking!

This is the official site of organized bridge (the card game) in Vancouver, Canada and its surrounding areas.  Our Unit is a large one of over 1,000 members and we run four open Sectional tournaments every year, plus a District-wide Sectional Tournament at Clubs and two Future Stars tournaments for non-Life Masters.  We also run a Monthly Unit Game and an annual extended teams competition called the IMP League.

Profits from these activities go into:

  • supporting the local bridge scene through subsidy funds for players advancing from local qualifying competitions to the national finals.
  • our print newsletter The Matchpointer and this Web Site.
  • programs to attract new players to the exciting world of tournament bridge.

This is the Start Page of the Home Area, the front page of the site.  Above, under the headline you can see the nine Areas making up this Web Site.  Click on a coloured rectangle above, or on a single-lettered bid-box in the graphic, to go to the Start Page of that Area.  The pages we expect to be most frequently accessed are in the 32 clickable links in the back of the bid-box over to the left of your screen.  If you hover your mouse over any of the bid-box links (back or front areas) for about a half-second, you'll see a short description of that page.  You'll find many more tips on site navigation on the Help! page.

You may also wish to add this site to your browser's bookmarks or favorites.  If the site becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, Matchpointer Online editor Bruce McIntyre will add most of the content to his own personal web space at this link, which you may also want to add to your browser's bookmarks or favorites.

Links to Unit 430 Club pages on Matchpointer Online:
Pause your mouse over a club in the grid-map to see basic details. Click to go directly to the club page.

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H-S                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                VBC                                                                                                                                    
                                                BBY                                                                                                                                    
                                                E-C                                                                         G-E             MIS                        
            ARB                                                             NWR                                                                                                
                        JCC                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                               
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            TSW                         SDL                                                 P-A             SRY                                                

 

Matchpointer Online :: Home Start Page -- EVENTS LIST (related to this page)
Date/TimeLocationEvent Details
2012: Friday, January 27
thru      
Sunday, January 29		Engineers Hall, BurnabyTrophy Sectional at Engineer's Hall in Burnaby.
2012: Saturday,
February 4
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreFebruary Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams)
2012: Saturday,
February 11
1:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreQuarterly Mentor-Mentee Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs). Contact David Dilkes to register.
2012: Monday, February 20
thru      
Sunday, February 26		Participating ClubsCBF-sponsored Canada-wide Sectional Tournament at Clubs (STaC). Silver points at your local club!
2012: Thursday,
March 1
11:59pm 		out of townDeadline for entries into Canadian Bridge Championships team events. See cbf.ca for details.
2012: Saturday,
March 3
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreMarch Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Friday,
March 30
11:59pm 		out of townDeadline for entered teams in Canadian Bridge Championships team events to submit finalized team rosters and pre-alerts for each pair. See cbf.ca for details.
2012: Saturday,
March 31
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreFourth annual Ev Hodge Charity Classic. Pot luck dinner before the game at 5:30pm.
2012: Saturday,
April 7
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreApril Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Wednesday,
April 18
11:00pm 		Participating ClubsLast Day to play and report Flight A/X/B IMP League regular season matches.  Matches not played by this date will not count in the final standings under any circumstances.  No matter how impossible your opponent has made it to schedule a match, you will not be able to claim a forfeit unless you report the problem to the Commissioner with ample time BEFORE this date to solve the problem.
2012: Saturday, April 28
thru      
Saturday, May 5		out of townCanadian Bridge Championships in Montreal PQ. Entry into CNTC, CWTC and Senior Teams requires preregistration. Most events are more expensive without prior club qualification. More info at cbf.ca
2012: Saturday, May 5
thru      
Sunday, May 6		Vancouver Bridge CentreSpring Future Stars 0-500 non-Life Master Sectional at Vancouver Bridge Centre.
2012: Saturday,
May 5
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreMay Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Thursday, May 10
thru      
Sunday, May 13		Engineers Hall, BurnabySpring Sectional at Engineer's Hall in Burnaby (begins Thursday Evening).
2012: Saturday,
May 19
1:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreQuarterly Mentor-Mentee Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams). Contact David Dilkes to register.
2012: Saturday,
June 2
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreJune Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams)
2012: Monday, June 4
thru      
Sunday, June 10		Participating ClubsUnit 430-sponsored District-wide Sectional Tournament at Clubs (STaC). Silver points at your local club!
2012: Saturday,
July 7
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreJuly Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Saturday,
August 4
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreAugust Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Saturday,
August 11
1:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreQuarterly Mentor-Mentee Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams). Contact David Dilkes to register.
2012: Thursday,
August 30
6:00pm 		Participating ClubsDeadline for signup for Flight A/X IMP League for 2012-13.  This is the final day of the Evergreen Sectional and unlike in previous years, this deadline will not be extended except to add one team to avoid a bye in the schedule.
2012: Saturday,
September 1
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreSeptember Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Saturday, September 8
thru      
Sunday, September 9		localFall Future Stars 0-500 non-Life Master Sectional. Dates and site are NOT CONFIRMED for this one yet, but the Unit is looking for a suitable site in the South Surrey area.
2012: Friday, September 28
thru      
Sunday, September 30		Engineers Hall, BurnabyEvergreen Sectional, likely at Engineer's Hall in Burnaby.
2012: Saturday,
October 6
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreOctober Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams)
2012: Sunday,
October 28
6:00pm 		Participating ClubsDeadline for signup for Flight B/C IMP League for 2012-13.
2012: Saturday,
November 3
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreNovember Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs)
2012: Friday, November 9
thru      
Sunday, November 11		Engineers Hall, BurnabyRound-Up Sectional at Engineer's Hall in Burnaby.
2012: Saturday,
November 17
1:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreQuarterly Mentor-Mentee Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (Swiss Teams). Contact David Dilkes to register.
2012: Saturday,
December 8
7:00pm 		Vancouver Bridge CentreDecember Monthly Unit Game at Vancouver Bridge Center (pairs). (One week later than normal 'first Saturday' date to avoid conflice with Fall NABC in San Francisco.)