Description of the Club's Competitions

Background

Prizes.
Prizes at BBC are typically a bottle of champagne though there are alternatives where preferred.

Eligibility for Club Competitions.
Results only qualify for club competitions  if all members of the playing partnership are  members. Ineligible partnerships can play in all events but their results will be shown in black and excluded from relevant competition.  Non-members names are printed in upper case in the competitions results.

Outline of the Club Year.
The  club playing year commences on June 1st when member renewals are complete. It is  divided into four quarters.
Summer           Jun 1 -  August 31st      
Autumn            Sept 1 - November 30th
Winter             Dec 1  - February 28th
Spring             March 1 -   May 31      

Each playing day has its own competitions.  Both Wednesdays and Thursdays have a Ladder Competition.   Both days have a Championship Pairs. Thursday  also has a Teams Event

Ladder Competitions

The quarterly Ladders are individual competitions using the results from every pairs event in the quarter. Player's scores are handicapped according to their average result in the previous quarter.The competition results are based on the sum of  each player's best 8 handicapped scores in the period.

In each period we use a handicap calculated from the players results in the previous quarter. It works like  a golf handicap except that we use decimal handicaps. If you average 47%  in the Summer Ladder, your handicap  for the Autumn Ladder will be 50 divided by 47%  = 1.06. Conversely,  if you average 53% , your handicap will be 50%/53% =  .94  Using a decimal handicap, the total of the scores in a competition can easily be handicapped by multiplying the total by the handicap value.
You need 5 scores in a quarter to achieve a handicap. Less frequent players are  normally given a default handicap of 1.0, but the committee  awards higher default handicaps to players with high Master Point ratings.Handicaps are calculated for all players in anticpation of possible membership..

The BBC Championship Pairs

This competition is spread over the Autumn, Winter and Spring periods  of each year.  It is the premier competition in the club calendar.  It is unhandicapped and aims to establishe the best pair in the club for the year. There are 8 events in the competiton. Each  pair's best 5 positions in the 8 events are summed.  (.e. g.  three firsts, a second and a 5th scores 10. )  The pair with the lowest score wins the competition.

The BBC Teams Championship

There are five Teams events in the Thursday calanedar between Sept and the following May. The committee is experimenting with a new competition in 2011-12. Teams will be formulated randomly by the committee based on the attending pairs. There will be a spare pair at each event to guarantee a gaim. to all attending.  

Teams events will be scored as usual in IMPS.  However the competition is for pairs and the winner will be the pair with the hightest total imp score based on their best three results in the five events.

Finding and Printing Competitions Results on the Club's Web Site.

The competition result web pages can be reached by clicking on "Program & Results" in the menu on the left. This will take the user to a separate part of the web site containing the club Program for that day and  the Results of all the Competitions .
Event results  are accessible on the web in two ways.
    -   Club  Program Page;  For completed events you can view both the Result and the Hand Listing, showing all makeable contracts.
    -   Competitions Results;  On Competition pages, clicking on the date at the column-head  brings up the event's webpage.