2022 Unit 430 Masterpoint Races as of December 5 -- end of year 2022!

Brought to you by Python (the programming language)!

How this works: at the start of the year, we make a file from the January ACBL database, with over 30,000 players from Districts 18, 19, and 20. Then, after results are confirmed, we add the text results to a growing file of results (9,600 lines last year!) for tournaments, IMP League results, Unit Games, and Mentor-Mentee games. The Python code reads the opening lines of each event and determines which type of event it is and then checks all entries for ACBL numbers (or names where none are listed) and masterpoints won, adding it to the pertinent lists. Once all the results are in, the results are sorted and each masterpoint race is updated on this HTML page.

The three lists below include the following Unit 430 trophy races:

LIST ONE: Sectional Trophy Races

The Phil Wood Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year, who wins free plays to all open sectionals in the next calendar year. 2019 Winner: Cam Doner — 2022 Winner: Jack Lee
The Edie Bonnell Trophy goes to the masterpoint leader in a calendar year among female players, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Katrin Litwin — 2022 Winner: Kathy Adachi
The Phil Wood Under 200 Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints who began the year under 200 masterpoints, the winner receiving six free plays to open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Qiang Hua — 2022 Winner: John Lai
These three trophy races include only points won at the four open sectionals of each year. You'll be listed if you are in the top 100 of the Phil Wood race, or the top 50 of the Edie Bonnell race, or the top 30 of the Phil Wood under 200 race.
The Leo Steil Trophy goes to the overall masterpoint leader in a calendar year among players 70 (a recent change from 65) or older. In my younger and crazier days I would actually ask the Phil Wood leaders and try to determine who was old enough. When enough people looked at me like I was some sort of degenerate I decided to stop doing that, and now we simply ask eligible players (born in 1949 or earlier for the 2020-22 contest) who are in contention to quietly claim the prize, which is six free plays for open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2019 Winner: Cam Doner — 2022 Winner: not guessing ages!

LIST TWO: Monthly Unit Game Trophy Races

The Monthly Unit Game Trophy goes to the player with the most masterpoints in Monthly Unit Games (usually the first Saturday of each month, 7pm at the VBC), the winner receiving free plays to all Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2020 Winner: Les Fouks — 2021 Winner: Gray McMullin — 2022 Winner: Ken Lochang
There is a B flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 3000 points with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2020 Winner: Cindi Oishi — 2021 Winner: Kelvin Raywood — 2022 Winner: John Lai
There is a C flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 1500 points with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2020 Winner: Harry Satanove — 2021 Winners (tie): Ernst Walti, Diana Tchakalian — 2022 Winner: John Lai
Note that individual Unit Games are not always stratfied to these limits: for 2021-22, 3000 and 1500 is usually a starting point, but we often adjust the limits to ensure that all three groups are large enough to warrant separate awards.
If there is a tie, the tied players share the prize. No player can win more than one prize, but can win parts of prizes from different flights, as long as the parts add up to no more than one prize. For 2022, with a single person, John Lai, winning B and C for six free plays, this means that Julien Levesque (B) and Nolan Derby (C) each win three free plays for 2023.

LIST THREE: The Rocket Rookie Race

The Rocket Rookie Race tracks all Unit-run events and counts only masterpoints won by non-Life Masters playing only with other non-Life Masters, with two exceptions: 1) Mentor-Mentee game masterpoints count for non-Life Masters even if their mentor is a Life Master, but only count at 50% rounded up: an award of 1.11 would add 0.56 RRR points to a non-Life Master's total, and 2) You become ineligible to win RRR points when you become a Life Master, except that the Flight B/C IMP League continues to count even if you became a Life Master during the event. The prize is (you guessed it) six free plays for the next calendar year at open sectionals.
The difference between the RRR and the Phil Wood Under 200 is that the under 200 race is usually won by a newer player playing with a Life Master in open games. The RRR smokes out the non-Life Masters most ready to move up into the open game! 2019 (and 2018!) Winner: Qiang Hua — 2020-22 Winner: John Lai, although it should be noted that extending this race to three years of games may have prevented Khosrow and Mojgan Shad from winning, since they became Life Masters during the long three-year marathon. Unlucky!

HOW 2020-22 WAS HANDLED: The cancellation of offline tournaments in March 2020 caused some special decisions to be made for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 races. Monthly Unit Games were quickly reinstated online, and the online MUG games were rescored in ACBLScore with MUG masterpoints and continued to be tabluated. This means that masterpoints listed on the ACBL site or on the BBO lists are NOT the masterpoints applying to the MUG race. In most cases you will be credited with considerably more points for the race than the BBO or ACBL lists indicate, since most games are scored as regular club games run by the online version of the VBC. The objective is to have each game count equally as it would if the games were all offline, all rated as MUG games and dependant on attendance, not dependant on which games happened to fall on special game weekends; and to fix the BBO stratification algorithm that divides the field into three equally sized groups, even if no TD would ever choose those strat boundaries in real life.

The other races will include the events from early 2020 as well as more offline events up until a certain point, which will be decided based on when offline bridge restarts. Free plays won in 2019 will be extended.

ALERT: to be eligible to win a prize for any race (including the Unit ones mentioned here, and the ACBL-wide ones some of us track every night...) you need to be a paid up member of the ACBL by the time the race ends. (We're OK if you joined mid-year.) However, for year-long races with a masterpoint limit, what counts is how many you had at the start of the year. Unit 430 also reserves the right to restrict limited awards for players who have had significant experience in another National Bridge Organization before joining the ACBL. Members who have been suspended or placed on probation for any part of the year are not eligible by ACBL bylaws.

THE LISTS:

Phil Wood	Edie Bonnell	P.Wood Under 200	Player	MPts
1			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	70.84
2			William Ge, Burnaby BC	67.11
3			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	65.91
4		1	John Lai, Vancouver BC	59.71
5			Patrick Zhu, Coquitlam BC	48.51
6			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	44.93
7			David Huang, Burnaby BC	39.87
8	1		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	39.43
9			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	36.95
10	2		June Keith, Surrey BC	35.34
11			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	34.43
12			Sidney Yang, Richmond BC	34.28
13			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	32.77
14			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	31.76
15			Donald Sache, West Vancouver BC	30.25
16			Brad Bart, Coquitlam BC	29.58
17			Mike Takemori, Coquitlam BC	28.89
18	3		Diana Jing, Surrey BC	28.16
19			Doug Hansford, Surrey BC	27.56
19	4		Susan Peters, Vancouver BC	27.56
21	5	2	Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	27.06
22	6		Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	26.61
23	7		Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	26.38
23			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	26.38
25			Joel Martineau, Vancouver BC	25.71
26	8		Yen Karro, White Rock BC	25.66
27	9		Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC	25.54
28	10		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	24.35
28			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	24.35
30	11		Lisa Li, Surrey BC	24.27
31			Thomas Devine, Ferndale WA	23.92
32			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	22.32
33			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	21.60
34			James Wu, Surrey BC	20.67
35			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	20.07
36	12		Amy Gao, New Westminster BC	19.93
37			Baixiang Liu, New Westminster BC	19.33
38			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	19.29
39			Kenny T K Chan, Vancouver BC	18.97
40			David Waterman, Surrey BC	18.94
41			George Tu, Vancouver BC	18.89
41			Rex Tu, Bellevue WA	18.89
43			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	18.16
43			John Bryden, Surrey BC	18.16
45			Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	18.07
46	13		Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	17.56
46			John Hurdle, Richmond BC	17.56
48			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	17.17
49			Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	16.99
50			Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	16.77
51			Ken Lochang, Vancouver BC	16.43
52		3	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	16.22
53			Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	16.19
53	14		Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	16.19
55	15	4	Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	15.83
56			Andy Hellquist, Surrey BC	15.44
57			Michael Moore, Richmond BC	15.38
58			Art Loy, Surrey BC	15.25
59			Wei Liu, Zhichun Road CP	14.97
60	16	5	Dennis Kinney, Vancouver BC	14.51
61			Frances Corney, Vancouver BC	14.35
62		6	Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	14.33
63			Long Xie, Burnaby BC	14.28
64			Bjarne Christoffersen, New Westminster BC	14.22
65	17		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	14.05
66			William Osten, Richmond BC	13.99
67	18		Eurydice Nours, Richmond BC	13.95
68	19	7	Mary Frances Bishop, Delta BC	13.94
68		7	Bud Bishop, Delta BC	13.94
70			Nigel Fullbrook, Delta BC	12.92
71	20	9	Debbie Harris, North Vancouver BC	12.85
72			Josh Sinnett, Bellingham WA	12.38
73	21		Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC	11.74
74			Laurence Betts, Burnaby BC	11.35
75			Dan Webster, Aldergrove BC	11.29
76			Barry Yamanouchi, Burnaby BC	10.96
77			David Gabel, Vancouver BC	10.38
78			Shael Smith, Richmond BC	10.36
79	22		Judy Duning, Olympia WA	10.27
79	22		Carla Delducco, Olympia WA	10.27
81			Tadeusz Smaruj, Vancouver BC	10.21
82		10	Wade Carpenter, Burnaby BC	10.01
83			Alex Hong, West Vancouver BC	9.88
84			Juan Xu, Burnaby BC	9.62
85			Ron Delbecq, Bellingham WA	9.43
86			John Nader, Ferndale WA	9.39
87			Dean Altschuler, Bellingham WA	9.35
88		11	Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	9.24
88		11	Michael Desaulniers, Maple Ridge BC	9.24
90			Rick Wei Wu, Surrey BC	9.12
91			Tom Cotton, Surrey BC	9.06
92			Allan Karro, White Rock BC	9.04
93			Howard Rubin, North Vancouver BC	8.81
94			Ron Ohmart, Burnaby BC	8.78
95			Cameron Doner, Surrey BC	8.73
96			Michael Moffatt, Surrey BC	8.55
97			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	8.51
97			Lu Gan, Burnaby BC	8.51
99			Don Brazeau, Burnaby BC	8.31
100	24		Vicki Moffatt, Surrey BC	8.25
100	24	13	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	8.25
	26		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	8.08
		14	Satadru Roy, Port Moody BC	7.91
	27		Eda Kadar, Vancouver BC	7.83
		15	Bakul Dalal, Vancouver BC	7.74
		16	Ron Backman, Burnaby BC	6.79
	28		Veronica Deskey, Ferndale WA	6.61
	29		Judy Harris, Salmon Arm BC	6.49
	30		Linda Allen, Bellingham WA	6.40
	31		Maryellen Gallo, Surrey BC	6.37
	32		Diane Ayukawa, Richmond BC	6.28
	33		Pauline McClafferty, Vancouver BC	6.25
	34		Debbie Martignago, Port Coquitlam BC	6.21
	35		Marcia Taylor, Nanaimo BC	6.20
		17	Tanweer Saqalan, Delta BC	6.19
	36		Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	6.09
	37	18	Flora Yan, Vancouver BC	6.01
	38		Sandra Robson, New Westminster BC	5.99
		19	Nolan Derby, Vancouver BC	5.79
	39		Marlene Sumi, Burnaby BC	5.76
		20	Andrew Mitchell, Oak Harbor WA	5.68
		21	Roy Livingstone, Whiterock BC	5.46
		22	Qiang Hua, Surrey BC	5.41
	40	23	Irene Dundon, Vancouver BC	5.18
	41		Judy Chang, Vancouver BC	5.09
	42		Shameine Ali, New Westminster BC	5.02
		24	Nimi Bhachu, Maple Ridge BC	4.96
	43		Anita Morse, North Vancouver BC	4.93
		25	Kevin Skoropada, Whonnock BC	4.91
	44		Marilyn Knipp, Delta BC	4.81
		26	Harold McAllister, Qualicum Beach BC	4.68
	45	27	Ellen Parsons, Vancouver BC	4.47
	45	27	Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	4.47
	47		Glenda Affleck, Vancouver BC	4.43
		29	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	4.33
		29	Orest Kubrak, Surrey BC	4.33
	48		Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	4.24
	49		Suzette Bahar, West Vancouver BC	4.02
	50		Cristal Nell, Seattle WA	3.71

MUG Race	Flt. B ( < 2500 )	Flt. C ( < 1000 )	Player	MPts
1			Ken Lochang, Vancouver BC	11.65
2	1	1	John Lai, Hong Kong HK	9.57
3			Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	9.14
3			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	9.14
5	2		Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	8.86
6	3		Patti Adams, Burnaby BC	8.14
7	4		Nigel Fullbrook, N Delta BC	7.81
8	5	2	Nolan Derby, Vancouver BC	6.08
9	6		Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	6.05
10			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	5.65
11	7		Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	5.52
12	8		Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	5.40
13			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	5.27
13	9		Frances Corney, Vancouver BC	5.27
15			Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA	5.24
16			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	4.66
16	10		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	4.66
18			Patrick Zhu, Coquitlam BC	4.63
19			Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	4.48
20	11		Andrew Nalos, Vancouver BC	3.65
21			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	3.39
22	12		R Chan, Vancouver BC	3.34
23			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	3.21
24			Diane Ayukawa, Delta BC	3.14
25			Joerg Schneider, Vancouver BC	3.08
25	13	3	Geraldine May, Vancouver BC	3.08
27	14	4	Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	3.07
27			Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	3.07
29	15	5	Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	3.06
29	15	5	Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	3.06
31	17	7	Harry Satanove, Vancouver BC	2.86
32	18	8	Kelli Cera, Vancouver BC	2.60
33			Felix Merk, Vancouver BC	2.55
34			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	2.47
35	19		Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	2.37
36	20		Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	2.35
37	21	9	Joanne Emerman, Vancouver BC	2.31
37			Viva Goldblatt, Vancouver BC	2.31
39			Sheila Sache, West Vancouver BC	2.30
39			Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	2.30
39	22	10	Monica Leid, Mukilteo WA	2.30
39	22	10	Martha Maroney, Lake Oswego OR	2.30
39	22		Suzette Bahar, West Vancouver BC	2.30
44	25	12	Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	2.26
45			Edgar L'Heureux, White Rock BC	2.10
45			Ronald Pratt, Langley BC	2.10
47		13	Ernst Walti, Burnaby BC	2.08
48		14	Shameine Ali, Vancouver BC	2.03
49		15	Lana Chow, Van BC	2.01
49			William Osten, Richmond BC	2.01

Rocket Rookie Race	Player	MPts
1	John Lai, Hong Kong HK	33.15
2	Patrick Zhu, Coquitlam BC	28.25
3	Lana Chow, Van BC	17.30
4	Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	16.86
4	Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	16.86
6	Mary Frances Bishop, Delta BC	13.94
6	Bud Bishop, Delta BC	13.94
8	Dennis Kinney, Vancouver BC	13.56
9	Michael Moore, Richmond BC	12.20
10	Jennifer Hong, West Vancouver BC	11.50
11	Art Loy, Surrey BC	11.47
12	Judy Duning, Olympia WA	10.27
12	Carla Delducco, Olympia WA	10.27
14	Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	9.47
15	Qiang Hua, Surrey BC	9.46
16	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	9.41
17	Ron Backman, Burnaby BC	8.99
18	Michael Desaulniers, Maple Ridge BC	8.72
18	Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	8.72
20	Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	6.90
20	Karen Tomkins, Burnaby BC	6.90
22	Roy Livingstone, Whiterock BC	6.72
23	Jo-Anne Ellenor, Surrey BC	6.59
23	Douglas Ellenor, Surrey BC	6.59
25	Debbie Harris, North Vancouver BC	6.37
26	Ernst Walti, Burnaby BC	6.33
27	Juan Xu, Burnaby BC	6.23
28	Marcia Taylor, Nanaimo BC	6.20
29	Reza Hadavi, North Vancouver BC	6.05
29	Mitra Hadavi, North Vancouver BC	6.05
31	Flora Yan, Vancouver BC	6.01
32	Ian Gilhooley, Vancouver BC	5.96
33	Irene Dundon, Vancouver BC	5.73
34	Chi Deng, Surrey BC	5.33
35	Nimi Bhachu, Maple Ridge BC	4.96
36	Ron Delbecq, Bellingham WA	4.90
37	Carol Parno, Surrey BC	4.72
37	Ray Nance, White Rock BC	4.72
39	Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	4.71
39	Bill Walter, Vancouver BC	4.71
41	Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	4.68
42	Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	4.64
42	Lisa Li, Surrey BC	4.64
42	Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	4.64
42	Wei Liu, Zhichun Road CP	4.64
46	Ellen Parsons, Vancouver BC	4.47
47	Bob Zoltok, Surrey BC	4.33
47	Orest Kubrak, Surrey BC	4.33
49	Claire Robillard, Burnaby BC	4.30
50	Kathy Molnar, North Vancouver BC	4.20
51	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	4.01
51	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	4.01
53	Linda Palm, Surrey BC	3.87
54	Lisa Bealle, New Westminster BC	3.84
55	Nolan Derby, Vancouver BC	3.78
56	Rebecca Brown, Bellingham WA	3.67
57	Gita Sheikholeslami, Vancouver BC	3.65
58	Janie Ochsendorf, Surrey BC	3.44
58	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	3.44
60	Frances Kammermayer, North Vancouver BC	3.39
61	David Drake, Vancouver BC	3.30
62	Jeannie Coleman, West Vancouver BC	3.27
63	Bill Cooke, North Vancouver BC	3.25
63	Karen Cooke, North Vancouver BC	3.25
65	Joanne Parker, Abbotsford BC	3.22
65	Ted Parker, Abbotsford BC	3.22
67	Al Warner, Vancouver BC	3.21
68	Rick Wei Wu, Surrey BC	3.18
69	Pauline Carter, Vancouver BC	3.01
70	Julie Mussenden, Vancouver BC	2.95
71	Eric Promislow, Vancouver BC	2.92
72	Pat Hodgson, North Vancouver BC	2.89
73	John Wilson, New Westminster BC	2.87
74	Kathy Dreisinger, Delta BC	2.85
74	Wendy Allex, Ferndale WA	2.85
76	Tadeusz Smaruj, Vancouver BC	2.82
76	Joanne Emerman, Vancouver BC	2.82
78	David Dempsey, North Vancouver BC	2.78
78	Steve Zeng, North Vancouver BC	2.78
80	Robert Pollock, White Rock BC	2.71
80	Elizabeth Stallard, Surrey BC	2.71
82	Hoy Chow, Edmonton AB	2.68
83	Dianna Gilbreath, Maple Ridge BC	2.67
83	Carole Clugston, Abbotsford BC	2.67
85	Barry Promislow, West Vancouver BC	2.66
86	Merilyn Hicks, North Vancouver BC	2.60
87	Mike Foster, Surrey BC	2.57
87	Junkai Peng, Vancouver BC	2.57
89	Satadru Roy, Port Moody BC	2.51
90	Jane Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	2.49
90	Eric Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	2.49
92	Margaret Adams, Port Moody BC	2.47
92	Rick Griffin, Port Moody BC	2.47
94	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	2.40
95	Hannes Claassen, Surrey BC	2.36
96	Bobbi Smith, Surrey BC	2.35
96	Brian Yager, North Vancouver BC	2.35
96	Anssi Rantamaa, Vancouver BC	2.35
99	Ofer Livni, Vancouver BC	2.32
99	Shaviv Ben Neriah, Vancouver BC	2.32