2023 Unit 430 Masterpoint Races as of November 13

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 results text to a growing text file of results 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.

To claim a free play, let the director know as you buy your entry. Free plays on Entry Express, the pre-arrival entry buying site, is not yet an easy possibility. Unit free plays are not transferable. Beginning in 2023, Bruce McIntyre is keeping track of masterpoint winner free plays used at sectionals and Unit Games, so no certificates or letters will be given out.

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. 2020-22 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. (A growing number of people are joining the ACBL without indicating a gender: when the program encounters one of these it assumes "M" but this can be changed manually. If you are included in this race but should not be, or vice versa, let me know!) 2020-22 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. 2020-22 Winner: John Lai (who is ineligible for 2023).
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 as the year begins. 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 1952 or earlier for the 2023 contest) who are in contention to quietly claim the prize (or have a friend in the know claim it for them), which is six free plays for open sectionals in the following calendar year. 2022 Winner: Kathy Adachi.

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. 2022 Winner: Ken Lochang.
There is a B flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 2500 points (at the beginning of the year) with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2022 Winner: John Lai.
There is a C flight of the Monthly Unit Game Race which goes to the player under 1000 points (at the beginning of the year) with the most points in Monthly Unit Games. The prize is six free plays to Monthly Unit Games in the following calendar year. 2022 Winner: John Lai.
Note that individual Unit Games are not always stratfied to these limits: for 2023, 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 2023, John Lai won six MUG free plays for both the B and C flights, but can win only one of these prizes; the other six free plays were split between the B and C runners-up, Julien Levesque (B) and Nolan Derby (C).

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! 2020-22 Winner: John Lai, who is eligible in 2023 but may soon become a Life Master and be ineligible to win more points.

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 were NOT the masterpoints applying to the MUG race. In most cases players were credited with considerably more points for the race than the BBO or ACBL lists indicated, since online games were scored as regular club games run by the online version of the VBC. The objective was 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 included the events from January-February 2020 and the remainder of 2022 when offline bridge restarted with the Spring 2022 sectional. Free play coupons won in 2019 were extended and will still be accepted as players return to live play at their own pace.

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			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	65.65
2			Jack Lee, Richmond BC	60.11
3			Xiaoming Shen, Richmond BC	56.27
4	1		Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	42.81
5			Larry Pocock, Vancouver BC	41.59
6			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	40.37
7			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	37.11
8			Baixiang Liu, New Westminster BC	36.04
9			Ken Lochang, Vancouver BC	35.24
10	2		Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	34.46
11			Andrew Krywaniuk, Burnaby BC	33.53
12	3		Amy Gao, New Westminster BC	33.05
13	4		Yue Su, Vancouver BC	31.96
14			David Huang, Burnaby BC	31.39
15	5	1	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	29.08
16			Long Xie, Burnaby BC	28.86
17			John Lai, Vancouver BC	28.26
18			Brad Bart, Coquitlam BC	27.08
19		2	Patrick Zhu, Coquitlam BC	26.68
20	6		Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	26.18
20			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	26.18
22			Gustav Axen, New Westminster BC	25.98
23			Cecil T C Chan, Portland OR	25.49
24			Kai Zhou, Burnaby BC	25.41
25			Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	24.65
26			Rick Wei Wu, Surrey BC	23.85
27			David Yu, Burnaby BC	23.75
28			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	22.40
29			Andy Hellquist, Surrey BC	22.29
30			Michael Hargreaves, Victoria BC	21.65
30			Gordon McOrmond, Sidney BC	21.65
32	7		Janet Galbraith, Calgary AB	21.41
33			Sidney Yang, Richmond BC	20.91
34	8		Lana Chow, Vancouver BC	20.87
35			Xiangdong Meng, Surrey BC	20.39
36	9		Kathy Adachi, Surrey BC	19.16
37	10		Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	18.48
38	11		Debbie Martignago, Port Coquitlam BC	18.35
39	12		June Keith, Surrey BC	18.31
40			George Tu, Vancouver BC	18.26
41		3	Wade Carpenter, Burnaby BC	17.81
42			Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	17.48
43			Steve Vincent, Burnaby BC	17.38
44			Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC	17.29
45			William Ge, Burnaby BC	17.23
46	13	4	Wenmin Chen, Richmond BC	17.07
47			Alex Hong, West Vancouver BC	16.99
48			Rex Tu, Bellevue WA	16.73
49	14		Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	16.72
50			Kenny T K Chan, Vancouver BC	16.71
51			Lu Gan, Vancouver BC	16.67
51			Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	16.67
53			James Wu, Surrey BC	16.39
54			David Schmidt, Chilliwack BC	16.26
55			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	16.22
56			Rock Shi Yan, Richmond BC	15.68
57	15		Pat Hodgson, North Vancouver BC	15.51
58		5	Arun Chopra, Surrey BC	15.47
59			Michael Ainsley, Victoria BC	15.11
60			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	14.94
61	16		Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	14.60
61			Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	14.60
63	17		Diana Jing, Surrey BC	14.31
63			John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC	14.31
65	18		Lisa Li, Surrey BC	14.30
66			Gerry McCully, Victoria BC	14.12
67			Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	13.97
67	19		Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	13.97
69	20		Mojgan Shad, West Vancouver BC	13.69
70			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	13.63
71			Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	13.52
72	21		Frances Corney, Vancouver BC	13.32
73			Eric Pan, Burnaby BC	13.28
74	22	6	Juan Xu, Coquitlam BC	12.74
75			Rhonda Foster, Victoria BC	12.45
76			Art Loy, Surrey BC	12.07
77			John Kay, Blaine WA	11.81
77			Qiang Hua, Surrey BC	11.81
79	23		Jane Youngberg, Surrey BC	11.61
80	24		Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	11.21
81			Andrew Nalos, Vancouver BC	11.11
82			Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA	11.08
83	25	7	Dennis Kinney, Vancouver BC	10.85
84	26		Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	10.01
85			Tao Feng, Burnaby BC	9.96
86	27		Judy Chang, Vancouver BC	9.71
87			Khosrow Shad, West Vancouver BC	9.54
88			Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC	9.26
89	28		Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	9.18
89			Ernst Walti, Vancouver BC	9.18
91	29		Marilyn Knipp, Delta BC	9.09
92			Peter Altridge, W Vancouver BC	8.75
92	30		Debbie Harris, North Vancouver BC	8.75
94			Kenneth Ramsay, Coquitlam BC	8.74
95			Keith Lee, Vancouver BC	8.69
96			David Waterman, Surrey BC	8.47
97	31		Linda Palm, Surrey BC	8.27
98			Xinguo Chen, Richmond BC	8.25
98		8	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	8.25
100	32		Mitra Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	7.97
100			Reza Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	7.97
	33		Trudy Hurdle, Richmond BC	7.94
	34		Kathy Bye, Burnaby BC	6.72
	35		Debbie Hargreaves, Victoria BC	6.58
		9	Hugh Woolley, Burnaby BC	6.44
	36		Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	6.37
	37		Susan Craven, North Vancouver BC	6.34
	38		Xiaojing Deng, Richmond BC	6.26
	39		Kathy Dreisinger, Delta BC	6.15
	40		Frances Kammermayer, Vancouver BC	6.14
	41		Yen Karro, White Rock BC	6.13
	42		Suzette Bahar, West Vancouver BC	6.06
	43		Joyce Tokarek, Vancouver BC	6.05
	44		Insa Fricker, White Rock BC	5.71
	45		Margaret Pattison, North Vancouver BC	5.63
	46		Jean Groome, Surrey BC	5.57
	47	10	Debbie Smith, North Vancouver BC	5.36
	48	11	Lisa Bealle, New Westminster BC	5.27
	49		Angela Fenton, Vancouver BC	5.19
		12	Tony Y N Shyu, Coquitlam BC	5.18
		13	David Dreisinger, Delta BC	5.05
	50		Laila I Axen, New Westminster BC	5.02
		14	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	4.98
		15	Zhaoqing Meng, White Rock BC	4.72
		15	Hong Helen Chang, Vancouver BC	4.72
		17	Rosanna Sistenich, Vancouver BC	4.57
		18	Eloise Carbone, Vancouver BC	4.08
		19	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	3.68
		19	Ron Senda, Vancouver BC	3.68
		21	Bobbi Moon, Surrey BC	3.63
		21	Lois Louden, Surrey BC	3.63
		23	Flora Yan, Vancouver BC	3.50
		24	Morteza Zarrinpour, Vanouver BC	3.30
		25	Leo Kevin O Farrell, Vancouver BC	3.28
		26	Nolan Derby, Vancouver BC	3.20
		27	Holly Bennett, North Vancouver BC	2.65
		28	Anne Katrichak, Richmond BC	2.39
		29	John Cairns, West Vancouver BC	2.33
		30	Mabel Chan, West Vancouver BC	2.18
		30	Donald Chan, West Vancouver BC	2.18

MUG Race	Flt. B ( < 2500 )	Flt. C ( < 1000 )	Player	MPts
1			Nigel Fullbrook, Delta BC	18.01
1	1		Julien Levesque, Burnaby BC	18.01
3	2	1	Nolan Derby, Vancouver BC	11.01
4			Ken Lochang, Vancouver BC	10.04
5	3		Kelvin Raywood, Vancouver BC	8.02
5			Gray McMullin, Vancouver BC	8.02
7			Rhoda Tafler, Richmond BC	6.57
8			Andrew Nalos, Vancouver BC	6.10
9	4	2	Lana Chow, Van BC	5.38
10	5		William Osten, Richmond BC	5.36
11			Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC	5.28
11	6		Frances Corney, Vancouver BC	5.28
13			Nicholas Stock, North Vancouver BC	5.15
14	7	3	Norma Doucette, Vancouver BC	4.97
15			Joerg Schneider, Vancouver BC	4.85
16			Julie Smith, Vancouver BC	4.49
17			Thomas Anderson, North Vancouver BC	4.48
18	8	4	Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	4.44
19	9		Maarten Tjebbes, Vancouver BC	4.42
20			John Demeulemeester, Burnaby BC	4.25
21	10	5	Geraldine May, Vancouver BC	4.07
22	11	6	Dennis Kinney, Vancouver BC	4.00
23	12		Eda Kadar, Vancouver BC	3.97
24	13		Stuart Carr, Burnaby BC	3.57
25			Robert Gerrie, Richmond BC	3.55
25			Aban Gerrie, Richmond BC	3.55
27			Sandra Robson, New Westminster BC	3.45
27			Gene Fomin, Glacier WA	3.45
29			Ben Takemori, Burnaby BC	3.39
30	14	7	Jean La Borie, Vancouver BC	3.33
31	15	8	Arun Chopra, Surrey BC	3.28
32	16	9	Donna-Faye Madhosingh, Vancouver BC	3.18
33	17	10	Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	2.89
34	18	11	Carrie Beavington, [parts unknown]	2.65
34	18	11	Ted Drew, [parts unknown]	2.65
36	20	13	Art Loy, Surrey BC	2.63
36	20	13	Juan Xu, Toronto ON	2.63
36	20	13	Al Warner, Vancouver BC	2.63
39	23		Linda Morgan, Vancouver BC	2.43
40			Larry Pocock, New Westminster BC	2.35
41	24		Ernst Walti, Burnaby BC	2.34
41	24		Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	2.34
43			June Keith, New Westminster BC	2.23
43			Les Fouks, Vancouver BC	2.23
45			Fatemeh Rashidifar, West Vancouver BC	1.99
45			Mina Mofazeli, [parts unknown]	1.99
47			Katrin Litwin, Burnaby BC	1.97
47			Aidan Ballantyne, Burnaby BC	1.97
49			Michael Dimich, Burnaby BC	1.86
50			Linda Simmons, Vancouver BC	1.75
50			Virginia Forrester, Vancouver BC	1.75

Rocket Rookie Race	Player	MPts
1	Cedric Miller, Surrey BC	14.60
1	Adelaine Miller, Surrey BC	14.60
3	Diana Tchakalian, Vancouver BC	11.52
3	Ernst Walti, Burnaby BC	11.52
5	Colleen Perry, North Vancouver BC	10.55
6	Juan Xu, Toronto ON	10.30
7	Reza Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	7.97
7	Mitra Hadavi, West Vancouver BC	7.97
9	John Lai, Hong Kong HK	7.82
9	Patrick Zhu, Coquitlam BC	7.82
11	Nimi Bhachu, Maple Ridge BC	7.56
11	Roy Livingstone, Whiterock BC	7.56
13	Qiao Li, Burnaby BC	7.49
13	Jin Mei Luo, Burnaby BC	7.49
15	Pat Hodgson, North Vancouver BC	7.30
16	Debra Sutherland, Burnaby BC	7.09
17	Susan Craven, North Vancouver BC	6.88
18	Kathy Dreisinger, Delta BC	6.87
19	Margaret Pattison, North Vancouver BC	6.74
19	Paul Pattison, North Vancouver BC	6.74
21	Jennifer Hong, Burnaby BC	6.65
22	Lisa Bealle, Richmond BC	6.58
23	Xiaoming Shen, Richmond BC	6.26
23	Xiaojing Deng, Richmond BC	6.26
25	Frances Kammermayer, Vancouver BC	6.14
26	Lana Chow, Van BC	5.53
27	David Drake, Vancouver BC	5.42
28	Debbie Smith, North Vancouver BC	5.36
29	David Dreisinger, Delta BC	5.05
30	Alison Donoghue, North Vancouver BC	4.98
31	Eric Promislow, Vancouver BC	4.87
32	Linda Palm, Surrey BC	4.80
33	Hong Helen Chang, Vancouver BC	4.72
33	Zhaoqing Meng, White Rock BC	4.72
35	Ron Senda, Edmonton AB	4.67
36	Dorothy Trask, North Vancouver BC	4.58
37	Ron Sekiya, Vancouver BC	4.37
38	Linda Simmons, Vancouver BC	4.28
39	Sheila Van De Velde, Vancouver BC	4.19
40	Dennis Kinney, Vancouver BC	4.00
41	Don Guichon, White Rock BC	3.89
42	Satadru Roy, Port Moody BC	3.76
43	Tony Y N Shyu, Coquitlam BC	3.65
44	Lois Louden, Surrey BC	3.63
44	Bobbi Moon, Surrey BC	3.63
46	Corrina Wong, Vancouver BC	3.60
47	Bruna Giacomazzi, Surrey BC	3.59
48	Mabel Chan, RW-Vancouver BC	3.50
48	Donald Chan, RW-Vancouver BC	3.50
50	Leo Kevin O Farrell, Vancouver BC	3.47
51	Robert Pollock, White Rock BC	3.36
51	Elizabeth Thompson, Surrey BC	3.36
53	Jean La Borie, Vancouver BC	3.33
53	Norma Doucette, Vancouver BC	3.33
55	Eloise Carbone, Vancouver BC	3.18
56	Bill Walter, Vancouver BC	3.06
56	Christine Walter, Vancouver BC	3.06
58	Kenny Ying, W Vancouver BC	2.74
58	Flora Yan, Vancouver BC	2.74
60	Holly Bennett, North Vancouver BC	2.65
60	Carrie Beavington, [parts unknown]	2.65
60	Ted Drew, [parts unknown]	2.65
63	Sherrie Shorman, Maple Ridge BC	2.53
63	Oliver Cornwall, Port Coquitlam BC	2.53
65	Victoria Silk, Vancouver BC	2.42
66	John Cairns, West Vancouver BC	2.33
67	Jack Qi, North Vancouver BC	2.28
67	Lucy Zhong, North Vancouver BC	2.28
69	Bud Bishop, Delta BC	2.10
69	Mary Frances Bishop, Delta BC	2.10
71	Scott Miller, Sooke BC	2.06
71	Anne-Marie Miller, Sooke BC	2.06
73	Trudy Merritt, Surrey BC	2.04
73	Karen Jensen, White Rock BC	2.04
75	Mina Mofazeli, [parts unknown]	1.99
75	Fatemeh Rashidifar, West Vancouver BC	1.99
77	Michael Desaulniers, Maple Ridge BC	1.85
77	Dariusz Matus, Surrey BC	1.85
79	Dorothy Grubb, Surrey BC	1.82
80	Maxwell Miller, Burnaby BC	1.81
80	Michael Miller, Surrey BC	1.81
82	Lilin Beames, Vancouver BC	1.75
82	Virginia Forrester, Vancouver BC	1.75
82	Nita Dalal, Vancouver BC	1.75
85	Cindy Oishi, West Vancouver BC	1.73
85	Stephanie Williams, Delta BC	1.73
87	Alan Atkins, Vancouver BC	1.69
87	Sharon Sneddon, Surrey BC	1.69
87	Clancy Fulton, Estero FL	1.69
90	Eric Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.59
90	Jane Abrutyn, Bellingham WA	1.59
92	Jeremy Bowman, Vancouver BC	1.55
92	Shaviv Ben Neriah, Vancouver BC	1.55
94	Linda Wilson, Van	1.48
95	Ellen Parsons, Vancouver BC	1.46
95	Carrie Cade, North Vancouver BC	1.46
95	Margaret Hyslop, [parts unknown]	1.46
98	John Wilson, New Westminster BC	1.43
99	Marlene Rockliff, [parts unknown]	1.31
100	Stephanie Counsell, White Rock BC	1.21