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Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 11 December 2019
Six tables for a 24 board Mitchell By Stand movement.
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This is the bare bones version. I intend to add more in a later edit but for the moment I wantto go outside and do some things in the garden.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 4 December 2019
There was some arm twisting required to sell the last 5 raffle tickets but there was not a lot of competition in it.
We had six and a half tables and played a Mitchell Bystand with Rover pair. The Director was uncomfortable with the 4 board N-S sit out and will probably stick to a seven table Hesitation Mitchell in the future.
It was a good day for Norma. She deserves it.
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Tell me if you get down to here using the comment facility.
We had six and a half tables and played a Mitchell Bystand with Rover pair. The Director was uncomfortable with the 4 board N-S sit out and will probably stick to a seven table Hesitation Mitchell in the future.
It was a good day for Norma. She deserves it.
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Tell me if you get down to here using the comment facility.
Founder's Cover and Raffle Results 04 December 2019
Founder's Cover Competition results:
Pat and John were otherwise occupied so Beryl L made the draw for the raffle of Norma's painting "Poppy Fields" :
with Lauren T holding the winning ticket.
Your blogger is responsible for the mediocre photograph of Norma's watercolour.
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Pat and John were otherwise occupied so Beryl L made the draw for the raffle of Norma's painting "Poppy Fields" :
with Lauren T holding the winning ticket.
Your blogger is responsible for the mediocre photograph of Norma's watercolour.
fin
Monday, December 2, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 27 November 2019
Last session for this November's Founder's Green Velvet Table Cover Competition with the winners to be announced at the start of the next session. The winning partnership will draw the winning ticket for Norma's "Poppy Field" Painting Raffle during the next session's afternoon tea.
Seven tables playing 4 boards per round in a straight Mitchell movement.
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This is a photo of what the Long Room looks like after everyone but the Play Director has left:
This is a photo of what the Long Room looks like after the (some say - mistakenly - neat freak) Play Director has left:
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Seven tables playing 4 boards per round in a straight Mitchell movement.
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This is a photo of what the Long Room looks like after everyone but the Play Director has left:
This is a photo of what the Long Room looks like after the (some say - mistakenly - neat freak) Play Director has left:
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 20 November 2019
Six tables using a Mitchell Byestand movement (six 4-board rounds) finishing easily by 4:15. Considering six 5-board rounds while Daylight Saving is on.
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Had an actual pre-play discussion on Signals and Discards. We will continue this until the director knows what this is all about.
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Had an actual pre-play discussion on Signals and Discards. We will continue this until the director knows what this is all about.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 13 November 2019
Seven and a half tables so Mitchell Bye Stand movement with an E-W sitout (of three boards) due.
Starting positions with visitors Lyn and Dick from SABA sitting east-west at Table 7.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 6 November 2019
This session starts the Semi-Annual Competition for Our Founders Green Velvet Table Cover. The Cover is currently held by Garry and Pieter so we have not seen it for six months. In looking back through the blog to see just how interesting it is beyond the results, I have discovered that the May Founders GVC results were not posted so they appear close the end of this week's entry.
All sessions this month will be for red Masterpoints. Players need red and/or gold Masterpoints for rank promotions beyond Regional. For example Pat (with 28.82 red points) and John (29.72) both rank at State but Norman with more Masterpoints ranks at Regional with 16.05 red points. For State rank a player needs 50 total Masterpoints of which at least 25 are red.
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May Founder's GVC Competetion Results:
This blog serves the purpose of a permanent easily accessible record of what happens in the ACBC and also anything the Blogger does that impinges on ACBC. These impinging personal things usually appear here at the end. Very few people even casually look at the blog (Blogspot bloggers are shown the number of sightings and commenters in their interface) or ever get to the bottom of an entry. Now, given that since my retirement from actual income generating work during the GFC, Contract Bridge has become the thing that satisfies my need to feel like I'm relevant and it will probably keep going as long as I do.
All sessions this month will be for red Masterpoints. Players need red and/or gold Masterpoints for rank promotions beyond Regional. For example Pat (with 28.82 red points) and John (29.72) both rank at State but Norman with more Masterpoints ranks at Regional with 16.05 red points. For State rank a player needs 50 total Masterpoints of which at least 25 are red.
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May Founder's GVC Competetion Results:
This blog serves the purpose of a permanent easily accessible record of what happens in the ACBC and also anything the Blogger does that impinges on ACBC. These impinging personal things usually appear here at the end. Very few people even casually look at the blog (Blogspot bloggers are shown the number of sightings and commenters in their interface) or ever get to the bottom of an entry. Now, given that since my retirement from actual income generating work during the GFC, Contract Bridge has become the thing that satisfies my need to feel like I'm relevant and it will probably keep going as long as I do.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 30 October 2019
This day we had five and a half tables and when this happens we use a table movement we call "6T 10R Switching Rover for Five and a Half Tables (10 Rnds of 3 Brds)". The Rover Pair first bumps NS for three boards and then switches and bumps EW at the same table for three boards. Meanwhile, the rest of the room plays a six board round. Everyone except the Rover Pair has a 3 board sit-out.
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Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum:
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Alexandrina Results for 23 October 2019
Event was a Mitchell Bye-Stand with 6 full tables.
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The Scorer was on a road trip to avoid any sort of fuss occurring over a particular event (not successfully). He left with a gross and burgeoning sore on his bottom lip, quickly developed a pinched nerve in his back and set his knees complaining about too much walking in the wrong shoes. So after adding two more art gallery/museums to a long list of closed venues to which he has traveled (see pic below and cf with LeicesterG's other blog), he elected to toss in the towel. He returned to his lair did nothing for the best part of a week other than watch sport on television and read his book.
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The Scorer was on a road trip to avoid any sort of fuss occurring over a particular event (not successfully). He left with a gross and burgeoning sore on his bottom lip, quickly developed a pinched nerve in his back and set his knees complaining about too much walking in the wrong shoes. So after adding two more art gallery/museums to a long list of closed venues to which he has traveled (see pic below and cf with LeicesterG's other blog), he elected to toss in the towel. He returned to his lair did nothing for the best part of a week other than watch sport on television and read his book.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 16 October 2019
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Your blogger is going to be absent for a couple of weeks: be patient and there will be a catchup in 2-3 weeks.
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Your blogger is going to be absent for a couple of weeks: be patient and there will be a catchup in 2-3 weeks.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 9 October 2019
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The individual setting up the hands to be played has 2 opportunities to detect errors ...
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The individual setting up the hands to be played has 2 opportunities to detect errors ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 2 October 2019
We were downstairs and it was a pain. Thanks to everyone who lugged playing equipment upstairs at the end of the day.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 18 September 2019
New man does OK for his first duplicate session.
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Alexandrina Results for 11 September 2019
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This movement is now properly set up in the scoring program and it will probably get used a lot.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 28 August 2019
We started the day thinking we had five and a half tables but when the expected late arrival failed to materialise then we mad an adjustment. Thus, the missing boards ...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Alexandrina Results for 14 August 2019
This day we had five and a half tables and for the first time we used a Switch Rover 5 Rounds of 6 Boards movement. In this the Rover pair starts by bumping Table 1 N-S for the first 3 boards then switches to E-W and plays the next 3 boards against N-S. Then, for the next round, skips a table and repeats and so on ending up at Table 4 for the final round. If the session is complete the the rover pair play 30 boards and everyone else plays 27 boards.
But here's the rub: 6 boards at 7 minutes gives us a 42 minute round and on this particular dark and stormy late afternoon the director wanted people (some with 50km country road drives) on their way by 4:30. So he cut the last round. Thus, 3 pairs played 24 boards and 8 pairs played 21 boards.
The Scorer went home (a 2 minute drive with street lighting) believing his scoring program would let him enter anything he wanted. But no ... the scoring program would not allow a switch from N-S to E-W in the middle of a round. So Scorer handballed the scoring to the movement perpetrators and went to bed. The perpetrators (we do thank them for introducing the movement to us) quickly knocked out the result and emailed it back to the Scorer who subsequently used it to verify his own work.
The next morning Scorer decides to call it a Switch Rover 10 Rounds of 3 Boards movement. The scoring program is happy because the switch happens between rounds and the Director is happy because he can now cut the 10th round and 9 pairs will have played 24 boards (with a 3 board sitout) and 2 pairs will have played 27 boards (rover pair and E-W starting at Table 5) and everyone can get home in daylight. Might have to have a 10 minute afternoon tea.
So the upshot is: you may expect this movement to be used again for a half table short of six movement to avoid a 4 board sit out. It also presents the opportunity for seeded NS pairs to play against other seeded NS pairs.
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Wasn't that fun!
For the pedants out there that was rhetoric.
But here's the rub: 6 boards at 7 minutes gives us a 42 minute round and on this particular dark and stormy late afternoon the director wanted people (some with 50km country road drives) on their way by 4:30. So he cut the last round. Thus, 3 pairs played 24 boards and 8 pairs played 21 boards.
The Scorer went home (a 2 minute drive with street lighting) believing his scoring program would let him enter anything he wanted. But no ... the scoring program would not allow a switch from N-S to E-W in the middle of a round. So Scorer handballed the scoring to the movement perpetrators and went to bed. The perpetrators (we do thank them for introducing the movement to us) quickly knocked out the result and emailed it back to the Scorer who subsequently used it to verify his own work.
The next morning Scorer decides to call it a Switch Rover 10 Rounds of 3 Boards movement. The scoring program is happy because the switch happens between rounds and the Director is happy because he can now cut the 10th round and 9 pairs will have played 24 boards (with a 3 board sitout) and 2 pairs will have played 27 boards (rover pair and E-W starting at Table 5) and everyone can get home in daylight. Might have to have a 10 minute afternoon tea.
So the upshot is: you may expect this movement to be used again for a half table short of six movement to avoid a 4 board sit out. It also presents the opportunity for seeded NS pairs to play against other seeded NS pairs.
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Wasn't that fun!
For the pedants out there that was rhetoric.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
SABA Mount Barker on 5 August 2019
SABA Mount Barker moved to the Mount Barker Community Centre on this day. In Dumas Street, directly opposite Mount Barker Primary School; first building you come to, entry out of sight of Dumas Street.
As ever: Results are here: SABA Results page
As ever: Results are here: SABA Results page
Alexandrina Results for 31 July 2019
A five Wednesday month.
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The depths of winter. We have 4 and even 3 table sessions from time to time but we still enjoy the Bridge. The other point worth noting is: this time of year we try to get everyone home while there is still reasonable daylight.
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See you here nex tweek.
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The depths of winter. We have 4 and even 3 table sessions from time to time but we still enjoy the Bridge. The other point worth noting is: this time of year we try to get everyone home while there is still reasonable daylight.
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See you here nex tweek.
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