1998 Queen Mary Winter Regional
February 23-March 1st, 1998
Long Beach, California

Host Hotel: The Queen Mary, (310)-435-3511 or (800)-437-2934
Room Rate: $55-75 (depending on view)
1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, CA 90802-6390
A non-smoking tournament with breaks.

New Expanded Hospitality Everyday

Friday and Saturday: Bottled Wine Door Prizes
Evening Party-to be announced
Hospitality Suite open between sessions daily
Section Top and Team Overall Awards: Queen Mary commemorative Mugs

Schedule

Monday, February 23rd

Tuesday, February 24th

Wednesday, February 25th

Thursday, February 26th

Friday, February 27th

Saturday, February 28nd

Sunday, March 1st

Unless noted otherwise, all flighted and stratified events are divided 500, 1500, 1500+. 199er Stratiflighted Pairs is: Flight A: 0-200, Flight B: 0-20, 20-50, 50-100

Continuous Pairs Events

Two separate events. Play in as many sessions in each event as you choose to. Overall awards based on an individual's two highest scores in a specific event. Different partners are permitted. Players must play in two sessions to be eligible to receive any gold points. Overall awards are gold, others red.

Knockout Team Events

All Knockout events are bracketed by average Master Points of all players with random draw within each bracket. If the range of masterpoints within a bracket is a factor of ten or more and the difference is at least 750 masterpoints, then the bracket will be handicapped. If there is only one bracket, it will be handicapped. All KO events are gold point events. All events except compact KOs are four sessions. A maximum of 5,000 master points for the top team will be used in computing the handicapping amount.

Bidding boxes will be used in all events.

Midchart conventions for which the ACBL supplies written defenses only may be used only in the top bracket of Knockout events provided that the bracket contains no teams with an average masterpoint holding of less than 1500.

Smoking is permitted only in designated areas. Courtesy breaks provided.

Appropriate dress is required at all times, including cleanliness and shoes.

Playing fees: All championship session, $8.50 per person/per session. All other games, $7.50 per person/per session. Youth players (25 years or under) $6.00 per person/session for all games, plus 2 for 1 discount.

Tournament director: Betty Bratcher

Tournament Manager: Les Cohen

District 23 National Director: Cecil Q. Cook

District 23 President: Woody Kaiser

Tournament Committee: Jerry Katz, Chairman, Roger Clough, Jan Cohen, Les Cohen, Cecil Cook, Jeff Goldsmith, Baum Harris, Woody Kaiser, Alan Le Bendig, Barbara Nussbaum, Herb Nussbaum, Louise Sklar, and Virginia Wittich.

For further information, call or write the ALACBU office, 7219 Canby Ave., Reseda, CA 91335, (818)-996-3271

Jeff Goldsmith, jeff@tintin.jpl.nasa.gov, July 17th, 1997