Matchpointer Online
(Serving Tournament Bridge players in A.C.B.L. Unit 430:
Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast)

This is a links page for Unit 430 tournament information.  For each recent tournament there is a link to the results, the masterpoint leaders, and the alphabetical list of masterpoint winners.  For coming tournaments, there is a link to pdf files of the black and white flyer (for printing on monochrome printers), a full-colour pdf version of the flyer (for viewing online or for printing on a colour printer), and a plaintext information page (for those who have trouble viewing pdf attachments or simply want to view the information in plain text).  Links in red boxes are not yet available; links in amber boxes are available but have not been confirmed as final by the Unit Board yet; links in green boxes are available and confirmed.

The sectional schedules come from the Unit 430 Generic Sectional Schedule, which is updated from time to time by the Unit Board.  This document contains a blueprint for all Unit sectionals: when they happen, which events take place at each sectional, what the start times are, and many other details.  The Generic Sectional Schedule can be viewed here.  This schedule was reviewed and updated for 2010.  Among the most important changes are: 10:00 start times (instead of 10:30) for final-day Swiss Team events, and open games are now stratified by AVERAGE masterpoint holding of a pair or a team, so even if you are over the limit you may still fit into a lower strat if your partner is (or your teammates are) under the limit.

Starting with the September 2009 Evergreen Sectional, we began posting complete results, including travelers for each board in the pairs games, as well as the pdf hand records.  Click on 'Links to Results' below to go to a page where you can view each event's complete details.  You;ll also find links to the ACBL listing of overall winners, and links to the tournament masterpoint leaders list, as well as the alphabetical list of all masterpoint winners and the pdf printable hand records.

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Unit 430 is sponsoring a Sectional Tournament at Clubs, open to all District 19 clubs from June 7 - 13.  The STaC Director is Steve Bates, local contact is Rita Dodge.  The most exciting addition this year is the page set up for everything to do with the STaC on the ACBL Web Page.  From that page, you can view the Conditions of Contest, instuctions for game Directors, and a registration form--but at this point it is too late to register via the automated form; you can still register directly with Steve Bates via e-mail, as long as you do it before the day of your game).

Also on the website will be hand records for the games and the overall results, when they become available.  Check it all out here.

STaC Basics A STaC (Sectional Tournament at Clubs) is a tournament held at clubs over a specific area within one week.  Players play their regular games for a small extra fee, and the masterpoints are awarded as though the game were a sectional, in SILVER points.  (You need these silver points to become a Life Master).  Whenever more than one club has an open game in the same session, the leading scores from all of these games get their club award replaced with a larger overall silver point award!  (Sessions are morning, afternoon, and evening, with afternoon being games beginning between noon and 6pm.)  This means that if you score about 62% in Flight A, 56% in Flight B, and 50% in Flight C (occasionally lower), you may win even more silver points than you won at the club!

Limited point games and games not scored in matchpoints are not included in the combined overall awards, unless there is another game of the same type in the same session.  This isn't very likely, so we suggest that to make sure your players get the maximum silver point credit, you open up all of your limited-point games for STaC week, and advertsie to your players that you have done so.

In the table below, we'll post the table counts (for open games only) and open game overall winners in each flight for all sessions, along with links to the complete results, which include those games that cannot be included in the overall results for that session.  Below the table, we'll post the list of masterpoint leaders, which will be updated throughout the week.

Masterpoint Leaders (games through Thursday evening only)

   1    16.50  Diana Tonner,  Vernon BC
   2    16.31  Verne Warwick,  Creston BC
   3    15.76  Tim Ayers,  Victoria BC
   4    13.84  Charles Williams,  Port Angeles WA
   5    12.79  Ralph W. Stone,  Creston BC
   6    12.33  Eric Pan,  Burnaby BC
   7    12.20  Maxine Ogino,  Seattle WA
   8    12.19  Marie Marchand,  Vernon BC
   9    11.69  Jack Lee,  Richmond BC
  10    11.36  Vern Nunnally,  Sequim WA
  11    10.83  Pamela Rattenbury,  West Vancouver BC
  12    10.83  Leonard Wild,  West Vancouver BC
  13     9.59  Brian Fraser,  Victoria BC
  14     9.10  Jim Walker,  West Vancouver BC
  15     9.07  Olive Macdonald,  Delta BC
  16     8.83  Al Freeze,  Surrey BC
  17     8.83  Donna Freeze,  Surrey BC
  18     8.50  Kai Zhou,  Burnaby BC
  19     8.50  Brad Bart,  Burnaby BC
  20     8.12  Siavosh Siassi,  North Vancouver BC
  21     8.12  Hobert Liang,  North Vancouver BC
  22     7.63  Jennifer Chalfan,  Bellevue WA
  23     7.63  Chris Moore,  Bellevue WA
  24     7.38  M Brennan,  Bellingham WA
  25     7.38  Hal Gloff,  Bellingham WA
  26     7.37  Robert Hitchens,  Seattle WA
  27     7.37  Ron Tracy,  Edmonds WA
  28     7.25  Glen Neidhardt,  Edmonds WA
  29     7.19  Mihail Vitchev,  Victoria BC
  30     7.19  Michael Dickie,  Victoria BC
  31     7.13  Hsiang Li,  Burnaby BC
  32     7.09  Paul Schwaighart,     
  33     6.45  Corrine Joinette,  Edmonds WA
  34     6.38  John Aslin,     
  35     6.33  Connie Grant,  Vernon BC
  36     6.23  Julianne Wooden,  North Vancouver BC
  37     6.20  Robert Walters,  New Westminster BC
  38     6.18  Tomie Yamanouchi,  Burnaby BC
  39     6.17  Karen Billett,  Victoria BC
  40     6.13  Arlene Browning,  Abbotsford BC
  41     6.13  Sherman Kwan,  Richmond BC
  42     6.10  Malcolm Tindale,  North Vancouver BC
  43     6.07  Jeannette Bourbonnais,  West Vancouver BC
  44     5.72  Perry Bruce,  Kamloops BC
  45     5.72  Audrey Weeks,  Kamloops BC
  46     5.67  Jim Wiitala,  Port Angeles WA
  47     5.64  Kun Shao,  Surrey BC
  48     5.62  Diane Thompson,  Kamloops BC
  49     5.62  Barb Hargreaves,  Kamloops BC
  50     5.47  Robert Nelson,  Cranbrook BC
  51     5.40  Kirk Homis,  Victoria BC
  52     5.40  Virginia Youens,  Victoria BC
  53     5.26  Howard Shimokura,  Vancouver BC
  54     5.25  Brian Stone,  West Vancouver BC
  55     5.13  Barbara Mason,  North Vancouver BC
  56     4.98  Liz Stoneman,  Surrey BC
  57     4.97  Ron Beall,  Bellingham WA
  58     4.97  Thomas Devine,  Ferndale WA
  59     4.90  Ollie Burno,  Vernon BC
  60     4.90  Barb Hiebert,  Vernon BC
  61     4.89  Ralph Wilhelmi,  Olympia WA
  62     4.89  Debra Wilhelmi,  Olympia WA
  63     4.87  Daisy Neilson,  Langley BC
  64     4.82  Rosalyn Richardson,  Coquitlam BC
  65     4.81  Fatemeh Pazand,  West Vancouver BC
  66     4.78  Jeff Ford,     
  67     4.78  Cristal Nell,     
  68     4.75  Stella Yu Chen,  Richland WA
  69     4.75  Robin Hart,  North Vancouver BC
  70     4.75  Kurt Moller,  North Vancouver BC
  71     4.75  John Van Keuren,  Richland WA
  72     4.69  Sheila Kaye,  Victoria BC
  73     4.69  Bob Sommerhalder,  Victoria BC
  74     4.63  Allan Karro,  Burnaby BC
  75     4.60  Cindy Glad,  Seattle WA
  76     4.56  John Lien,  Surrey BC
  77     4.34  Louis Beduz,  Creston   
  78     4.32  Gulshan Dhanani,  West Vancouver BC
  79     4.29  Gilles St Pierre,  Abbotsford BC
  80     4.29  Denis Lefebvre,  Abbotsford BC
  81     4.25  Eva Partel,  Vernon BC
  82     4.25  Bill Lim,  Vernon BC
  83     4.22  Frances Corney,  Vancouver BC
  84     4.20  Jane Youngberg,  Surrey BC
  85     4.15  Fay Coupe,  Port Townsend WA
  86     4.12  Colin Ransom,  Furry Creek BC
  87     4.10  Bud Craig,  Kelowna BC
  88     4.10  Stuart Mould,  Kelowna BC
  89     4.09  Maggie Warren,  Surrey BC
  90     4.08  Beryl Hamilton,  Burnaby BC
  91     4.08  Ione Smith,  Burnaby BC
  92     4.05  Leonard Westnedge,  Kimberley BC
  93     4.02  Paul Fournier,  Vancouver BC
  94     3.99  Ginger Augustavo,  Seattle WA
  95     3.99  John Teschke,  Vancouver BC
  96     3.96  Patricia Downie,  Creston BC
  97     3.95  Sheldon Widlan,  Seattle WA
  98     3.92  Shirley Mills,  White Rock BC
  99     3.92  Thelma Hofstede,  Delta BC
 100     3.91  Michael Young-Lai,  Vernon BC