NATIONAL PAIRS FINAL

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1 NATIONAL PAIRS FINAL 2018 Hilton Hotel, Coventry 14 th 15 th April 2018

2 National Pairs Final

3 TIMES OF PLAY Saturday afternoon National Pairs Final boards: mini-session 1 and boards: mini-session 2 Saturday evening boards: mini-session 3 and boards: mini-session 4 Sunday boards: mini-session 5 then boards: mini-session 6 and boards: mini-session 7 Final results will be available soon after the end of play and will be displayed on the EBU website. s will be sent automatically to those players who have a login for the EBU Pianola site. INTRODUCTION Welcome to the Hilton Hotel, Coventry and to the National Pairs Final. The National Pairs is an all-play-all competition. Twenty-five tables (50 pairs) will play a full round robin of 49 x 2-board rounds 98 boards in total. Forty-nine of the 50 pairs have been divided into seven groups of seven; the fiftieth pair is the stationary pair in a Howell movement. Three 7-table Mitchell sections and one 4-table Howell section will be in play throughout, each playing a mini-session of 7 x 2-board rounds. The tournament as a whole consists of seven 14-board sessions. Starting lineups have been based on the results of the regional final so as to balance the strengths of the lines. 3

4 National Pairs Final 2018 STARTING POSITIONS FOR EACH SESSION Your original starting positions for the first round can be found at the back of this programme. When playing in one of the Mitchell sections, your pair number is the same as your table number, and you begin each session at the table corresponding to that number. When playing in the Howell section, your starting position is in accordance with the schedule listed below. The movement of lines from one mini-session to the next is as shown below. Please keep these notes with you for reference throughout the competition. You may wish to make a separate note before you start play of your progression from start to finish in the competition. MOVEMENT OF LINES BETWEEN 14-BOARD SESSIONS Previous session Next session Red N/S Blue N/S Red E/W Howell (Yellow) Blue N/S White E/W Blue E/W Red E/W White N/S Blue E/W White E/W White N/S Howell (Yellow) 1-7 Red N/S Howell pair 8 Howell pair 8 YELLOW SECTION HOWELL STARTING POSITIONS Pair No Start at Pair No Start at E/W 1 N/S 3 N/S 4 E/W N/S 2 E/W 2 E/W 4 N/S 1 4

5 MASTER POINTS National Pairs Final 2018 All points quoted are Green Points per player, and will be direct credited. Awards to the top half of the field: 1 st : Green Points, 25 th 2.00 Green Points. Awards for intermediate places are in accordance with the standard EBU tournament formula. PRIZES All prizes are quoted in terms of per pair and will be automatically credited to the member s EBU account, and may be redeemed at any time on application to the EBU. Prizes to 10 th place as follows: 1 st 280, 2 nd 220, 3 rd 170, 4 th 130, 5 th 100, 6 th 80, 7 th 70, 8 th 60, 9 th 50, 10 th 40 REGIONAL HEAT WINNERS All National Pairs Regional winners will receive trophies. Northern Region: Midlands: Eastern Region: South East: South West: MISCELLANEOUS 1 Systems and conventions The National Pairs is a level 4 event. 2 Split ties Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies Jimmy Ledger & David Thomas Ufuk Cotuk & Mark Tilley Michael Alishaw & Stephen Kennedy Regional Final not held (snow!) A tie will be split only for the purpose of establishing the actual trophy winner. Tied places share equally any Master Points or prizes due, even if the tie has been split for some other purpose. 5

6 SESSION 1 STARTING POSITIONS: Red section Mitchell National Pairs Final 2018 Table N/S E/W 1 Michael Alishaw & Stephen Kennedy David Norman & Roger Eddleston 2 Harry Figov & Tony Quilley Cathy Rowland & Dinesh Gudka 3 Michael Keeping & Matthew Smith Simon Barb & Rod Oakford 4 Margaret Howe & Gary Hyett Dave Nastaszczuk & Philip Roxburgh 5 John Holland & Tony Coley Ruby Schnalke & Nick Hunter 6 Mark Westley & Bill Thurl Trevor Morris & Vanessa Clarke 7 Kath Stynes & Ned Paul Paul Gibbons & Sharon Bayne Blue section Mitchell Table N/S E/W 1 Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies Nathalie Shashou & Nick Sandqvist 2 Gabriel Ip & Giles Ip Richard Register & John Sutcliffe 3 Ankush Khandelwal & Ben Green Ray Clarke & Graham Beeton 4 Victor Milman & Nadia Stelmashenko Rob Corrie & Howard Ludlow 5 Robert Miller & Tim Durdin Daryl Kayes & Chris Boyes 6 Roger Morton & Alan Bailey Karen Pryor & Malcolm Pryor 7 Sandra Nicholson & Krys Kazmierczak Ambrose Holmes-Mackie & Shahzaad Natt 6

7 National Pairs Final 2018 White section Mitchell Table N/S E/W 1 Mark Tilley & Ufuk Cotuk Sandy Riach & Jacek Lapszys 2 Ingar Hansen & Peter Lee Kevin Robins & Graham Cunningham 3 John Pemberton & Stephen Popham Carina Negreanu & Adam Bowden 4 Geoff Oldfield & Victor Silverstone Philip Hunt & Matthew Read 5 Millie Jones & Suzy Lawson Christine White & Ian Clarke 6 David Kendrick & Paul Barden Robert Elliott & David Piper 7 Jeremy Willans & Jill Skinner Steve Auchterlonie & Malcolm Lewis Yellow section Howell Table N/S E/W 1 Francis Eddleston & Richard Irwin David Thomas & Jimmy Ledger 2 Chris Chorley & Paddy Murray Jane Morton & Pam Pearce 3 David Arundel & Andrew Bannock Marc Chawner & Paul Spencer 4 Tom Dessain & Tugrul Kaban Maciej Pilecki & Stanley Herman 7

8 NEW FORMAT National Pairs Final 2018 The qualifying stage of the National Pairs competition has been simplified by eliminating the club heats. Instead, anyone who wants is able to enter to play in one of the regional finals, held in a variety of venues around the country. These regional finals are scored across the whole country, in the same way as the Portland Pairs, and the top 50 pairs overall qualify to play here in this National Final, which retains its existing format. In addition, the five regions are scored separately for the purpose of awarding the regional trophies. Our intention was that these changes make it easier for those who want to play in the competition and thereby strengthen the field, but we would be happy to hear feedback from you or suggestions for further improvements. English Bridge Union Broadfields, Bicester Road Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 8AZ Tel: (01296) Fax: (01296) postmaster@ebu.co.uk website: To contact a Tournament Director at the venue please call the tournament mobile: