1st Pacific-Asia Online Women’s Bridge Festival
The Australian Bridge Federation is very pleased to announce the roll-out of the first Pacific Asia On-line Women’s Bridge Festival to be held from Monday 1st to Friday 5th September 2014 on BridgeBase Online.
The Festival will include two 12 board tournaments a day over five days in a variety of formats – pairs, individuals, robots tourneys.
This event has been set up to capture all of those female players who reside in the Pacific/Asia rim.
Tourney Points will be awarded to the first three or four placed pairs/individuals in each event, with overall prizes being awarded to the individual players with the highest number of Tourney Points.
The World Bridge Federation have generously donated a prize of €500. This will be split across the three highest placed players. To be eligible for this prize, a player must have played in 4 of the 10 events. In addition to this very generous prize, the ABF, NZBA and Zone 6 will also be awarding prizes to their highest placed individuals.
- ABF: Total prize pool $1,200 to be used by the winners for entry into an ABF or ABF Licensed event
- HKCBA: 3 room nights (single or double occupancy) including 2 breakfasts, and a free entry to the Open Pairs as well as the Continuous Pairs at the HK Inter-city in 2015 to the highest placed Zone 6 pair.
- NZBA: 1st NZ Pair in 4/6 of the Pairs sessions get a choice of free entry to 2 events, and 2nd best NZ pair free entry to 1 event from: 2015, South Island Teams, North Island Teams, National 15A Teams, South Island Pairs, North Island Pairs, National Pairs or National Swiss Pairs.
Further prizes of BBO Dollars will be awarded to sessional winners subject to the number of tables in play.
A complete prize breakdown will be prepared and posted to the web site at the completion of the event.
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