Masterpoint leaders after Monday evening: pairs games only, no points in yet for the knockouts, since the first KO is not yet over.

Overall Leaders thru Monday

Have a look at the masterpoints page to see totals for everyone, including red-gold breakdowns, updated each night by about midnight.

Non-Life Master Leaders thru Monday

Have a look at the masterpoints page to see totals for everyone, including red-gold breakdowns, updated each night by about midnight.

Tuesday's noon hour speaker (in the Colwood room) is Debbie Wastle and the topic is: "Who are You Calling a Dummy?" — Dummy's rights and responsibilities.

Wednesday's noon hour speaker is Ewa Zwicky and the topic tomorrow will be: "Play With Finesse" — How and When to Finesse.

A busy day for your Daily Bulletin editor began with a country club championship game in Vancouver, a ferry ride over, an attempt to check in at the wrong hotel (my reading comprehension seems to be fading as I get older!), and finally a directing session meeting people from all over District 19 and beyond in the opening session of the Regional!  Tomorrow I should have more time to check out the various displays and report on them for you, as well as giving you more basic information on the tournament site.  For now I can answer some of the more common questions:

• Entries go on sale about an hour before each session.  Afternoon and evening pair events will be sold in the rather spacious area (now that we have moved the coat racks to the Metchosin room) overlooking Douglas St., while team events and knockout purchases for the next session for surviving teams will be sold at the teams station near the front of the room.
• In line for an entry you will need to know what event you are playing in and (for pairs) how many masterpoints your pair has combined, so entry sellers can seed and distribute players in each event and section optimally.  Remember to let us know if you need a North-South, or North-South for both sessions, or can offer to play East-West in both to help us balance things out.
• Washrooms are on the Douglas St. side of the main playing area and also just outside the front near the teams station.  Staff from the Victoria Conference Centre (they are conspicuous by their fine sense of clothing style!) are ready to help you find one.
• Convention cards are near the pairs or teams computer stations.
• Smoking must be done outdoors and a fair distance away from entry doors.  There is no smoking inside the Conference Centre.
• Please remember to turn your electronic devices off when the game begins, so as not to create distractions for nearby tables and force the Directors to give obligatory penalties they don't want to give.  Absolutely necessary calls must be taken well outside the playing area and cannot delay the progress of the game.  Let's focus on bridge and leave the devices for later.

Special Schedule notice: It's not on the official schedule for the tournament, but the District Final in two of the four flights of the Grand National Teams will be held on Saturday and Sunday here at the tournament site.  The Flight C (non-Life Master) and Flight A (0-6000 MP) events were held March 16-17 in Everett, and the winners were:

Flight A winners: Alex Hong, West Vancouver BC; Sidney Yang, Richmond BC; Lu Gan - Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC.

Flight C winners: Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC; Henry Yao, Vancouver BC; Lisa Li, Surrey BC; Flora Yan, Langley BC.

(Your Daily Bulletin editor was directing a game in Vancouver when he remembered that the GNT A and C finals had taken place the previous weekend, so he looked up the results to find that two Vancouver teams had won and would be flying to Las Vegas to represent District 19 in the National Final of the GNT.  He announced the good news to the room, adding that "this proves the old adage that two Hongs make a flight"!)

The other two flights, the B Flight (0-2500) and the unlimited Championship Flight, will be contested this weekend as part of the Regional.  To play your team must have earned a club qualification at club games held during the qualifying period from September thru February (and in some cases into March), or pay a fee for all unqualified players.  Both events will be full two-day events with the actual format depending on the turnout.  In the championship flight especially, there are regulations about pre-disclosure of unusual methods and it is recommended that you sign up early (by 12:30) so that everything required can be taken care of before the game.

More detailed information is here and on the GNT flyer (pdf) here.

Click on 'Tuesday' below to see information about Tuesday's events!  Once the play for the day is over, the daily pages will switch from event information to results.