Saturday Fun Tournament

Registration

Email me at [email protected] before Saturday, or register at the DuplicateTournamet MP Room from 6:00 pm PST. Cut-off for registration is at 6:45 pm PST, or when the number of registered teams have reached 48. Late arrivals can join within 5 minutes after round 1 assignments are given, provided the total number of teams do not exceed 48.

Please come with a partner, or you can come a little early and find one in the lobby, there are usually many singles looking to pair up.

Assignments

Table assignments will be posted in the lobby at 7 pm. Please do not seat at any table before assignments are given. First team named will seat north/south and return to the same table for the remaining 3 rounds. Second team named will seat east/west and move up one table after each round.

Everyone will need to leave their tables before the start of each subsequent round so the tournament room software can reset hands and scores. Please watch the lobby for my signal - I need everyone's cooperation so we can run this tourney as fast and as smoothly as possible:-)

Play

When seated at your table, the host of the table please set the option to "allow kibitzers" so that I can get to the table without delay, when called.

All players to set the option "hide hand from observers"

this is important because every table will be playing the same hands, so even subs may not kibitz in case they are needed during that particular hand (sorry subs :-)

when dummy, remain dummy

A total of 4 rounds, 4 boards each round, is played. Each round is allocated 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for booted players. If your partner is booted, please ask for a sub as soon as possible. At the end of 35 minutes, slow players will be allowed to finish the current hand and forfeit the rest.

Please do not leave the table when you have finished the round. Drop me a word at the lobby "Table # done", then take a coffee break, or chat with others but please do not play a 5th hand.

Scoring

After the 4th hand has been played, do not yet report the scores because these might change when other teams finish after you. Simply say in the lobby "table # done" and wait at the table. When 35 minutes is up I will ask all teams to stop playing then take your scores in the lobby. After both teams agree on the scores, North or South is to report the MP average for his team, for example: Table # xx.x. Please remember, only North or South is to report, and for his team only :-)

Passed out hands DO count.

Subs

Subs are welcome and greatly appreciated. We need lots of subs to replace booted players and to keep the tournament going at a timely pace. But please don't expect to play every hand when you are a sub :-) you might sit out an entire round without a chance to sub. When a table asks for a sub, I will simply say "sub needed at table xx", in the lobby, please get to the table as fast as you can, don't wait for me to name:-)

Please don't expect your sub to be an ace player, or an expert at all conventions. However most of our subs are above-average players, in my opinion :-). They are there so you can have an enjoyable tourney, please be courteous and friendly to them.

Results

Shortly after the last round scores are in, I will post full results in the lobby. These will also be posted on the "Results" page at this Site. The first three winners will be posted in the "Tournament" page on Zone.

- El torneo se jugar� en 4 ruedas, 4 manos por rueda

- Cada rueda durar� 30 minutos, m�s 5 minutos para jugadores botados del sistema

- El puntaje ser� en XMP, tomando el promedio mostrado al final de la tabla de puntaje al t�rmino de cada rueda

- El primer equipo llamado se sentar� Norte/Sur

- El segundo equipo se sentar� Este/Oeste

- Al sentarse, favor estar seguro que tiene el partner y contrarios correctos, antes de apretar "Start" y jugar

- El jugador Norte, o el host de la mesa, debe configurar la opcione "allow kibitzers" y todos deben configurar las opcione "hide hand from observers" en el men� opciones de la mesa, para que las manos no sean vistas por los observadores, pero permitirles la entrada a la mes

a - Cuando termine la 4ta. mano, favor mantenerse en la mesa

- No se debe jugar la 5ta. mano

- Por favor reporte en el sal�n "lobby" su n�mero de mesa terminada: table # done

- Cuando todas las mesas se hayan reportado se llamar� a reportar los puntajes, Norte u Sur deben reportarlos y, por favor s�lo los puntajes de Norte/Sur: table # n/s xx,x

- Cuando los puntajes hayan sido recibidos, todos deben dejar la mesa para permitir resetear las manos y tablas de puntajes

- El host de la mesa debe bootear a todos antes de salir de la mesa

- En las ruedas subsiguientes N/S se mantiene en la misma mesa que empez�

- E/W se mueve hacia la mesa con numeraci�n inmediatamente superior, mesa 1 a la 2, 2 a la 3, etc., la �ltima mesa debe ir a la 1

- Por favor pedir sustituto para los jugadores botados del sistema, llamados "sub"