General Conditions Of Contest for Simultaneous Pairs
Please also check the General Regulations
1. General
It is particularly important with simultaneous pairs events being held at different times that clubs ensure that security is observed - for example if your club is playing during the morning or afternoon, or even over more than one day, your players must be aware that they cannot go to a different club later in the day and play the hands again!
It is also important that clubs do not upload their results to their own sites, where the hands and frequencies will be visible, until the hands and frequencies appear on the main ECatsBridge site - to check the time that these will appear, just go to the results pages for the event and click the link at the top to Frequencies - if they are not live it will tell you the time and date (in UK time) when they will appear. Please ensure you do not publish yours until that time.
Subject to the regulations of the competition in question,
these regulations shall apply to any competition conducted
by any sponsoring
organisation for which the event is being organised by
ECatsBridge.
2. Conditions of Contest
Club Rules will apply to Simultaneous Pairs events except where these are superseded by any Regulations published by the Sponsoring Organisation .
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. However the English Bridge Union places a restriction on non-affiliated English clubs and does not permit these to participate in any event licensed for Master Points other than the ECats Children in Need Charity Pairs. Wherever possible a separate event will be arranged to cater for non-affiliated clubs.
By participating in a Simultaneous Pairs, a player agrees to have his or her name published on the website scoring the event, and, as a consequence, accepts that their name will appear in the search engines.
4. Systems
The systems policy of the club in which the event is to be played shall prevail.5. Date of the Event
The event must be played on the date specified by the Sponsoring Organisation. Clubs may play at any time of day, but if a club chooses to play in the morning or afternoon it must be made absolutely clear to all players that security MUST be observed and that they must not discuss the hands with or show the booklets to anyone likely to play later in the day or in the evening. Nor must they play at one club during the day and then play in the same event later in the evening. Furthermore results, frequencies and hands must not be published on any website until at least 10 pm on the evening of the date of the event to allow all clubs to have played before details are published.
6. Making up the Boards
If the boards are to be made up at the table before the start of play, an envelope containing the travellers must be taken unopened to the heat, then the travellers distributed to the players so that they can make up the boards.
If the boards are to be made up by someone who is not playing in the event beforehand, the pdf with the travellers may be given to that person so that this can be done.
If the club has - or has the use of - a dealing machine, a designated person will be sent the relevant files together with the spade holding for North on Board 1 to enable them to check that they have the corect set. All files will have the name of the event, the year and the day they are for.
8. Security
No person shall participate in the competition who has had access to the hands. We know that we can rely on clubs to observe the necessary security9. Scoring;
The club should score the event in accordance with the scoring instructions and upload the results to results@simpairs.com as soon as possible after the event.