2023 Victoria Regional, Day Four: Thursday, April 20

Brain Warmup Department: Unruly

For those of you who used to like the puzzles I printed in the old bulletins, here is a link to an online version: one of the puzzles that I used to feature in the old paper Bulletins, but it is easy to play on a computer as well. Not so easy on a tablet or phone, since most of the puzzles require right-clicks, not easily done in a tablet or phone environment. Unruly gives you another grid of cells which may be black or white, and starts you off by giving you some free hint cells, with the rest gray. Three simple rules define the completed grid: 1) no row or column will have three consecutive cells of the same colour (but three or more diagonally is allowed); 2) each row and column will have the same number of white and black squares; 3) No two rows or columns will have exactly the same sequence of black and white squares (although a row may match a column, or match another row in reverse). Strategies: look first for adjacent cells of the same colour and fill in the other colour on each end, or two cells with the same colour with one cell in the middle, and fill in the other colour in the middle cell. Then look for nearly completed rows and columns and count colours to see what is still needed. The third rule is less common but will get you out of binds in the endgame often! Click on the puzzle you want to try at the right (or the caption below) to go to the page with all the instructions you'll need. These puzzles come from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (see below) and there are links there to apps for most devices. You can make puzzles of any size and difficulty level! You can make puzzles of any size and difficulty level!	Easy puzzle(McBruce's time: 1min 5sec)
	Medium puzzle (McBruce's time: 0min 53sec)
	Tricky puzzle (McBruce's time: 5min 5sec)

Thursday (Day Four) Event Schedule

Morning Events (8:45am)

Thursday Morning Side Game: Pairs game, part of the Morning Side Game Series (3rd of 5).

Strat Limits (by pair average) A: 2000+, B: 750 - 2000, C: 0 - 750.
Masterpoints: Mostly red points but gold points for overall winners if they play another session in the Morning Side Game Series, and a chance for gold points for individuals whose two best games in the series are good enough to make the series overalls.
Victoria 2019 winners: (16 tables):
A, B: Marv Norden, Peachland BC; Paul Reitsma, Parksville BC
C: Linda Ellis, Victoria BC; Les Ellis, Vancouver BC

Thursday Morning 299er Pairs: Single session pairs game, matchpoint scoring, for players up to 300 masterpoints.

Strat Limits (by pair average) D: 100 - 300, E: 50 - 100, F: 0 - 50. Both members of a pair must have 300 masterpoints or fewer, even if the average is under 300.
Masterpoints: Red points.
Victoria 2019 winners: (199er Pairs, 8½ tables):
D: Ian Gilhooley, Vancouver BC; Karen Tomkins, Burnaby BC
E: Lorne Bulmer - Nancy Fauteux, Victoria BC
F: Leslie Petersen - Hank Phibbs, Wilson WY

Afternoon-Evening Events (1:00pm, 7:00pm)

Thursday Barred Owl Round-Robin Teams: Two session team game, 4-6 players on a team, short matches scored in IMPs. All teams will play a round-robin or Swiss Teams within their bracket.

Bracketed, by team average into brackets of 6-9 teams.
Masterpoints: Gold points for overalls, red points for match awards.  Lower brackets may have part-gold, part-red for overalls, based on masterpoints.
Victoria 2019 winners (62 teams in a traditional Thursday-Friday Knockout Teams):
Bracket I: Linda Lewis - Paul Lewis, Las Vegas NV; Douglas Doub, West Hartford CT; Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA
Bracket II: Bruce Busby - Brian Busby, Campbell River BC; Ryley Breiddal, Vancouver BC; Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC
Bracket III: Eileen Deutsch, Port Townsend WA; Tim Berta, Sequim WA; Gordon Chin, Bainbridge Isle WA; Thomas Reis, Port Angeles WA
Bracket IV: Don Wallace - Wayne Stann - Leah Koffski, Kelowna BC; Sharon Horvath, Agassiz BC
Bracket V: Devra Drysdale - Judy Madge - Claire Strachan - Jan Brawn, Calgary AB

Wednesday-Thursday Tulip Knockout Teams (began Wednesday afternoon): Team game, 4-6 players on a team, 24-board knockout matches scored in IMPs. All teams will play a round-robin or Swiss Teams in each bracket on Monday Evening, with the top four teams in each bracket surviving to play two full matches on day two (with few exceptions, semifinal losers must playoff for third place).

Bracketed, by team average into brackets of 6-9 teams.
Masterpoints: Gold points for teams that make it to day two, red points for other day one match awards. Lower brackets may have part-gold, part-red for overalls, based on masterpoints.
Victoria 2019 winners (37 teams in 3 brackets):
Bracket I: Lee Barton - Lucille Barton, Edmonton AB; Cindy Cossey - Glenn Cossey, Innisfail AB
Bracket II: John Wolf - David Partridge, Eugene OR; Randy Naef, McMinnville OR; Lawrence Swanson, Monroe WA
Bracket III: Joan Borberg, Portland OR; Michele Bonneau - A. Marie Callbeck, Prince Albert SK; Ginny Gainer, Port OR

Thursday Open Pairs: Two session pairs game, matchpoint scoring.

Strat Limits (by pair average) A: 4000+, B: 2000 - 4000, C: 0 - 2000.
Masterpoints: Gold points for overalls and some section tops, other awards are red points. Note that you can win points in the first session that are replaced by a higher overall award after the second: you get the greater of your overall award or the sum of the session awards; not both combined.
Victoria 2019 winners (22, 22 tables):
A: Gordon McOrmond - Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC
B: Kelly Meenagh, Kelowna BC; Don Bell, Vernon BC
C: Mark Beduz, Calgary AB; Marla Nickerson, Victoria BC

Thursday Gold Rush 0-750 Pairs: Two session pairs game, matchpoint scoring.

Strat Limits (by pair average) 7: 500 - 750, 5: 300 - 500, 3: 0 - 300. No individuals over 750 points may play in this event, even if the pair average is below 750.
Masterpoints: Gold points for overalls and some section tops, other awards are red points.  Note that you can win points in the first session that are replaced by a higher overall award after the second: you get the greater of your overall award or the sum of the session awards; not both combined.
Victoria 2019 winners (33, 33 tables):
7, 3: Jon Punnett - Donald (Bob) MacDonald, Victoria BC
1: Gillian Mouat - Jo Albinati, Victoria BC

Afternoon-only Events (1:00pm)

Thursday Afternoon Side Game: Pairs game, part of the Afternoon Side Game Series (3rd of 5).

Strat Limits (by pair average) A: 2000+, B: 750 - 2000, C: 0 - 750.
Masterpoints: Mostly red points but gold points for overall winners if they play another session in the Afternoon Side Game Series, and a chance for gold points for individuals whose two best games in the series are good enough to make the series overalls.
Victoria 2019 winners: (20 tables):
A, B, C: John Wood, Blaine WA; David McGraham, Vancouver WA

Thursday Afternoon 299er Pairs: Single session pairs game, matchpoint scoring, for players up to 300 masterpoints.

Strat Limits (by pair average) D: 100 - 300, E: 50 - 100, F: 0 - 50. Both members of a pair must have 300 masterpoints or fewer, even if the average is under 300.
Masterpoints: Red points.
Victoria 2019 winners: (199er Pairs, 11 tables):
D: Ian Gilhooley, Vancouver BC; Karen Tomkins, Burnaby BC
E: Lorne Bulmer - Nancy Fauteux, Victoria BC
F: Leslie Petersen - Hank Phibbs, Wilson WY

Evening-only Events (7:00pm)

Thursday Evening Side Game: Pairs game, part of the Morning Side Game Series (2nd of 5).

Strat Limits (by pair average) A: 2000+, B: 750 - 2000, C: 0 - 750.
Masterpoints: Mostly red points but gold points for overall winners if they play another session in the Evening Side Game Series, and a chance for gold points for individuals whose two best games in the series are good enough to make the series overalls.
Victoria 2019 winners: (13 tables):
A: Alden Edwards - Bud Craig, Kelowna BC
B, C: Mike Amspacher, Vancouver WA; Heather Dolan, Beaverton OR

Other Day Four Winners from Victoria 2019

Changes in the tournament schedule left some of the 2019 event winners out of the list above:

Wednesday-Thursday Morning Swiss Teams: (11 teams):
A: Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA; Sara Rothmuller, Occidental CA; Kate Hill - Jennifer Jones - Bob Klein, Santa Rosa CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA
B: John Wolf - David Partridge, Eugene OR; Lawrence Swanson, Monroe WA; Randy Naef, McMinnville OR
C: Margaret Blackie - Murray Blackie, London ON; Enaid Savage, Guanajuato Mexico; Ian Irving, North Saanich BC

Thursday Evening Swiss Teams: (27 teams):
A: Ken Scholes - Sandra Scholes, Bellevue WA; Rhonda Foster - Gerry McCully, Victoria BC
B, C: Ralph Lipe - Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA; Dennis Glassford, Chilliwack BC; Brian Sims, Cultus Lake BC

Thursday Evening 199er Pairs: (4 tables):
D, E: Ginny Barklow - Anne Notman, Sequim WA

Thursday Afternoon Newcomer 0-20 Pairs: (7 tables):
A, B, C: Lucile Mears - Jonathan Mears, Victoria BC

Masterpoints for all players are updated nightly here first, with everyone's current red and gold point total listed alphabetically below the leaders, before a shorter leaderboard is added to this page.