International Women's Online Bridge Club

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: read carefully before taking the next steps !

The players who already are a registered member of BBO, have to register only once for the Women's Online Bridge Club by filling in the registration form using their BBO nick. In any case every player still has to register for each tournament they would like to play.
All other players have to register according to the procedure detailed below in order to become a club member: at first register at the BBO website and then register for the Women's Online Bridge Club.
If you are a member of the Women's Online Bridge Club you don't need to register for the Online Festival. The Women's Online Bridge Club and the Online Festival are one entity (database) meaning that members of the Women's Online Bridge Club are allowed to participate in the Online Festival without further registration. Women who in the past just registered for the Festival have automatically become a member of the Women's Online Bridge Club and do not have to register once more to participate in the Online Festival.
Both players (partners) have to be online at the moment of registeration for the pairs tournament. If not, the pair cannot participate!

REGISTRATION BBO

To connect to BBO website and to become a member please use the new flash interface click on this link: http://www.bridgebase.com/client/client.php. Membership of BBO is free of charge. You will get a unique BBO NICK, that you need to register for the International Women's Online Bridge Club.

REGISTRATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ONLINE BRIDGE CLUB/ONLINE FESTIVAL

Participation in the tournaments of the International Women's Online Bridge Club is restricted to those women players who filled in the registration form. After registration your nick will in due course be shown on the "Registered Nicks" page. If not, ask the TD to manually authorize your nick so you can play in the next tourney.

ENTRY FEE

The entry fee is fixed at $1 (the standard fee for all the normal BBO pay tournaments).
To know how to pay, click here.

Every day, starting on December 1st 2009, there will be 3 daily tournaments: 2 individual tournaments and 1 pairs tournaments with a monthly overall classification. It is sustained to play with different partners in the pairs tournaments. The playing times are as follows:

Individual Tournament 11.00 CET, 10 boards, 8 minutes per board, scoring by imp
Individual Tournament 16.10 CET, 10 boards, 8 minutes per board, scoring by imp
Pairs Tournament 20.00 CET, 10 boards, 8 minutes per board, scoring by %
Individual Tournament 0.40 CET, 10 boards, 8 minutes per board, scoring by imp

This schedule is based on Italian local-time and so times will vary in other time-zones. For a list of the times of the tournaments in different places, click here.

We suggest you put Rome in and search for the time there (make sure you look at Rome in Italy!) and then you will be able to see the time difference between where you are and Italy.

In addition to the rankings of each tournament, cumulated monthly rankings will be prepared as follows:

Pairs Championship cumulated monthly ranking (in any case it will be an individual ranking because it is sustained to participate in pairs tournaments with different partners!)
Individual Championship cumulated monthly ranking
Overall cumulated monthly ranking (combined ranking between Pairs & Individual). Overall classification according to the points that the players will get in all the tournaments that they will play.

10 Boards will be played in each tournament. The scoring of the tournaments is in IMPs or MP. In the tournament description is written which one is valid for that particular match and the TD will always clarify the format. To see the rankings of most recent tournaments, the score sheets of the hands and the "bridge movie" (the bidding/play history for a deal) of each hand click on the BBO Website.

No kibitzers will be allowed during the tournaments.