STaC
Week!
Sectional
Tournament at
Club Week
Win
silver points while playing at your favorite local club!
February
4 - 10, 2008
Plan now to play
in your local club the week of February 1 in District 8's
annual Sectional-Tournament-at-Clubs (STAC). All club games
this week can award sectional silver points to winners and
runners-up in all three flights.
Masterpoint
awards: The STAC event offers 12 different sessions
-- a day and an evening session on each weekday, plus day
only sessions on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the silver-point
section awards at each site, each session will be scored across
the District for overall awards.
Stratification
: Open Pair games will have three strata — A:
1500+; B: 0-1500; and
C: Non-Life Master (0-500). Clubs can also
run stratified novice pairs and victory-point team games.
Entry fees:
Sanction fee is $6 per table, so expect to pay an
extra $1.50 over your club's regular entry fee. Proceeds help
fund the Advocate newsletter , the District
finals of the North American Pairs and Grand National Teams,
and other District 8 activities.
Online results
: District-wide results from each session will
be updated on the STAC website:
2007
Fall STaC results, District 8
Game sites:
Call your club manager for details on the STaC games
in your area.
Conditions
of Contest:
1.
No player may play in a game that will cause him to be entered
in any event more than once.
2.
Each club field must be seeded, as much as possible.
3.
All open games will be eligible for District 8 overall awards.
Invitational
games will be handled as single-session side games.
Limited
MP games will be scored and ranked as stand-alone events unless
a similar limited game is held during the same playing session.
Invitational
games may be OPENED if you wish to participate in overall
awards.
4.
All MPs awarded will be silver.
5.
Disputes/rulings not handled at the club level will be handled
by the DIC where all rulings are final. The DIC will
be available by telephone during and immediately after each
session for that session.
6.
The club manager is responsible for reporting game results
to the DIC immediately after the game is over and audited.
Reporting game results can be done by:
a) emailing
to the DIC a backup copy of the ACBLScore game file
b) phoning
the DIC with game results
If your
Club uses ACBLScore, then emailing a backup copy of the game
file is required. When creating your game file, use
the sanction number.
Final standings
for each event will be posted on the web site 36 hours after
the end of each event.
Players,
directors, and club managers are NOT to phone the DIC for
status. At the end of the week's events, a MP race total
for the week will be prepared and posted on the web site.
Practice
e-mail messages to the DIC prior to STaC week are encouraged.
Email any backup game file to the DIC. The DIC will
inspect the file and reply if the file is OK or if an additional
practice message is needed.
7.
The sanction fee is $6/table; $1.50/player above the regular
club entry fee.
Each club
manager in Unit 143 is to mail a check by the Wednesday following
the last event of the week, made out to the District 8 STaC
for the total sanction fees for all sessions held during the
week. All payments are to be sent to Mike Tomlianovich,
NOT the DIC
8.
Club managers are encouraged to hold a STaC week game during
regularly sanctioned game time periods. Club managers
may hold as many additional games during the week at any time
as they wish; no special sanction is required.
Schedule
your games now!!
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