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The purpose of publishing Conditions of Contest in Simultaneous events is to provide unified regulations in circumstances which will otherwise be infinitely variable. No one can hope to arrive at a situation where heats are conducted in accordance with a strict pattern but at no time should circumstances be allowed in which a participant could be said to have potential access to the hands, or information concerning them, prior to the heat. It is not supposed that advantage might be taken of such a possibility, but it is important that players should be protected from any suspicion by means of security measures that are plain for all to see. These regulations apply to events organised or licensed by the BGB but are also intended to be in force whenever not superseded by regulations published by another body.
Subject to the regulations of the competition in question,
these regulations shall apply to any competition conducted
by BGB within its territory
on behalf of an International Body. or any other sponsoring
organisation for which the event is being organised by
ECatsBridge.
These regulations are required to be available at the club on the occasion of the heat, for any participating players to study
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| 2. Conditions of Contest |
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Club Rules will apply to Simultaneous Pairs events except where these are superseded by any Regulations published by the Sponsoring Organisation (in the case of BGB events, this is Bridge Great Britain itself; in the case of the World Wide Simultaneous Pairs, it is the WBF etc).
In principle, there shall be no restriction on those participating other than those of space or club membership. A club may refuse entry to any person who is deemed persona non grata by that club. |
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| 3. Eligibility |
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The Sponsoring Organisation reserves the right to refuse entry to the competition by any non-member of the relevant Union.
A person who in consequence of the prescribed disciplinary procedures of any of the National Bodies is suspended from membership thereof, or from participation in one or more of its sponsored or licensed bridge competitions or is expelled from its membership, shall not participate nor be connected with any activity or competition of the Bridge Great Britain during the period from commencement to the termination of such suspension or expulsion |
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| 4. Systems |
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The systems policy of the club in which the event is to be played shall prevail. |
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| 5. Date of the Event |
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The event must be played on the date specified by the Sponsoring Organisation with a starting time no earlier than 4.30 p.m. on that date. |
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| 6. Procedure |
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The hands for setting in the boards and the books of the hands shall be packed as two separate sealed packages and sent to a named official of the club |
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The sealed package of the books of hands shall remain unopened until conclusion of the play of the heat. |
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The hands for setting in the boards will be printed on travelling score slips, and will be contained in the second sealed package. |
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| 7. Making up the Boards |
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The sealed package containing the hands for setting in the boards shall be taken unopened to the heat [unless c below applies], when it should be opened by the Director or other responsible person, and travellers distributed to the players who shall then make up the boards. |
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The participants making up the boards shall only see the hands that are being made up at their own table, and they will not then play these particular boards during the course of the event. |
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Alternatively (usually in the case of a club wishing to use a Howell, rather than a Mitchell movement), the package containing the travellers/curtain cards is to be delivered sealed to a non-participant in the event, who shall set the hands in boards and retain the boards and the hand records in a place of security. If a Duplimate file is requested, then it may be sent by email or on diskette to the person who is to deal the boards, who must be a non-participant in the event. The boards must then be retained in a place of security; no information shall be divulged to any third person, and no access shall be allowed to the boards or hand records. |
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| 8. Security |
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No person shall participate in the competition who has had access to the hands.
Arrangements shall be made for the made-up boards to be delivered securely to the club in which the heat is to be played; this shall be done preferably by a non participant. |
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| 9. Scoring (after the end of the Play Period): |
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The score slips should be collected the Director or two officials of the Club; if people who have played collect in the score-slips this shall be done jointly by members of more than one partnership. |
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In the case of clubs who are unable to score using the scoring program provided, the original score-slips are to be forwarded to the Anna Gudge, Simultaneous Pairs Organiser, in the condition in which they are collected. Nothing may be written on them and no alteration made to the entry made on them by the players; any such alteration is improper and contrary to Law. If the club wishes to retain copies it may require the players to enter two score-slips, so that two score-slips exist for each board. If the official score-slip has no result recorded for a round nothing shall be entered on it, but the Director should provide whatever details he is able in his scoring report. The results must be posted to the organisers within 48 hours of completion of the play period. If there is any reason, such as an appeal, why the results cannot be sent straight away, Anna Gudge must be informed immediately. |
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When the club is able to score the event using the program provided (or other program suitable for the purpose) and upload to the ECats Scoring System in accordance with the General Instructions provided, the travellers are to be retained by the club for at least one month in case of query. If required, they are to be sent to the Simultaneous Pairs Organiser. |
| 10. Score Corrections |
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If it is suggested that any score is incorrectly entered, details are to be supplied on a separate sheet of paper signed by the Director. This may take the form of rewritten match point score slips, showing the correct scores, stapled in each case to the original slip.
The Director must not alter the actual score slips himself, and the scorer of the competition will apply Law 79 etc |
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| 11. Master Points |
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Affiliated Clubs are expected to give local points at local club duplicate rate. If for any reason they are not intending to do so it must be announced in advance to the competitors. They are not obliged to award points for the BGB Simultaneous Pairs events.
Master Points on a specially formulated National Scale will be awarded by the BGB to the top third of the field on the overall ranking. |
