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2001 Junior Collegiate Team Championship
21-22 April 2001

Registration is presently being accepted for the 2001 Junior Collegiate Team Championship to be held on Okbridge. This annual event pits college and university bridge teams from around the world in online competition. The Fifth Chair Foundation and OKbridge are the organizers of the event, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, 21 and 22 April 2001 on OKBridge.

The annual championship is sanctioned by the American Contract Bridge League and masterpoints are awarded for the event. Okbridge, the Internet’s oldest and largest online bridge club, provides free, temporary player accounts for all team members. Fifth Chair, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering online bridge education, provides hosts for each participating team to help team members become familiar with the OKbridge program, if needed. There is NO registration or participation fee for this event!

Conditions of Contest

Dates and Times
The event will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22, 2001 on OKBridge. On Saturday there will be an IMP Pairs tournament at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (12 noon Central Time; 1 pm Eastern Time) to determine the four teams that will compete in head-to-head KO matches to be held on Sunday at 10:00 AM PST or a time to be arranged between the advancing captains.

Sponsoring Organizations
Sponsored by Okbridge and The Fifth Chair Foundation, this event is sanctioned by the American Contract Bridge League and will award ACBL masterpoints. The Laws of Duplicate Bridge, ACBL version, and ACBL Tournament Rules and Regulations will apply to all phases of this contest.

All players will be expected to conduct themselves in an ethical and orderly manner according to the Laws of Duplicate Bridge.

Eligibility
The event is open to all Juniors (under 26) who are currently enrolled in a college or university. A team must consist of four, five or six players, with at least two of its members attending the same school. All team members must agree to play under the name of one college or university.

Participants will be supplied with a complimentary, temporary OKBridge membership up to two weeks prior to the event. Participants will be expected to familiarize themselves with the features of the software before the event begins.

Substitutions
In the event of connection problems substitutions will be allowed. Each team may have stand-by substitutes that meet the eligibility requirements to play in this event. In the event that no team substitute is available, the director has the right to select a substitute that meets the eligibility requirements and that maintains the legal number of players from the specified college or university in order to ensure the timely progression of the event.

Qualifying Round
The qualifying round will be a 30 board IMP Pair game. Each team must enter two or three pairs into this event and each player in a partnership must be a member of the same team. If there are five player teams, those teams will enter only two pairs in the qualifying round.

Pairs that meet another pair from their team in the rotation will sit out that round.

Highly unusual methods, or conventions that are unusual and require defenses which must be discussed by a partnership in advance will not be allowed in the qualifying round. Any team in doubt about their methods being permitted should submit a convention card with their registration email including a full description of the conventions and a recommended defense. The director in charge of the event will make the final decision about allowing the convention.

The IMP Pairs game will be scored by Average IMPs per board. At the end of the pair game, the Average IMPs per board will be multiplied by the number of boards played by each pair. The totals for all pairs on the same team will be added together and divided by the total of all boards played by all pairs on the same team.

The four top scoring teams will qualify to play the semi-finals on Sunday.

Semifinals and Finals
The top qualifying team will choose their opponents from the other three teams for the semifinal round.

Highly unusual methods will not be allowed in the semi-final or final matches. However, some methods not permitted in the qualifying round may be approved by the director in charge for the semifinal or final round if the team has submitted an OKbridge convention card with the convention fully described and with recommended defenses.

The semifinal and the final will be 20 board matches. After 10 boards, the teams may take a break and get their scores.

Director in Charge
The director in charge of the event is the final authority for interpreting the conditions of contest. Any situation not specifically covered in these conditions will be decided by the director in charge.

Register your team NOW!

To register your team, or to obtain further information, send an email to tuna@okbridge.com with the following information: